Takako Irie

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Takako Irie
入江たか子
Takako Irie in 1931
Born
東坊城 英子 (Higashibōjō Hideko)

(1911-02-07)7 February 1911
Tokyo
Died12 January 1995(1995-01-12) (aged 83)
OccupationActress

Takako Irie (入江 たか子, Irie Takako, 7 February 1911 – 12 January 1995) was a Japanese film

Teiten (Imperial Exhibition), and which is today in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art; toy dolls were also produced based on this image.[2]

In the postwar period, Irie became known as a "

Toshirō Mifune
) that "the best sword stays in its scabbard".

Her husband, Michiyoshi Tamura, was a film producer. Their daughter, Wakaba Irie, is also an actress. Irie's brother, Yasunaga Higashibōjō, was a film director and screenwriter.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ a b "Irie Takako". Nihon jinmei daijiten (in Japanese). Kōdansha. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
  2. ^ Brown, Kendall et al (eds.). Taishō Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco. Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2001. pp. 70–77. [ISBN missing]

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