Tanie Kitabayashi
Born
May 21, 1911
Died
April 27, 2010 (98 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Tanie Kitabayashi (北林谷栄, Kitabayashi Tanie, May 21, 1911 – April 27, 2010) was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards and at the Mainichi Film Awards for Kiku to Isamu. She also won the Japan Academy Prize for best actress in Rainbow Kids (1991), a film that also earned her honors from the Mainichi Film Awards and from Kinema Junpo. She died on April 27, 2010, of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital. She was 98.
Known For
Resurrection
Saki Naito
2003
Letter from the Mountain
Oume
2002
Rainbow Kids
Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
1991
Rikyu
Mother
1989
My Neighbor Totoro
Granny (voice)
1988
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Torah (voice)
1987
The Burmese Harp
Old Woman
1985
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
Haze of Love
1985
Dangerous Women
Mrs. Kinumura
1985
White Snake Enchantment
Tane
1983
Our Teacher
1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
Amagi Pass
Tea house's old woman
1983
Suspicion
Harue Shirakawa
1982
Station
Masayo Mikami
1981
Call from Darkness
Sukeno
1981
Writhing Tongue
Akira's mother
1980
Gassan
1979
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979
Nomugi Pass
1979
Never Give Up
Kiyo Matsushita
1978
Proof of the Man
1977
The Wild Daisy
Tamiko's Grandmother
1977
The Possessed
1976
The Sea of Eden
1976
Kobayashi Takiji
1974
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Moko's mother
1972
The Golden Bat Shows Up
1972
My Voiceless Friends
1972
Price of Life
Tome
1971
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971
Patience Has An End
1971
A Woman Called En
1971
Mayuko hitori
加野のぶ · (310 episodes)
1971
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
Goze / Narrator (voice)
1970
おくさまは18歳
Asuka's grandmother · (53 episodes)
1970
The Little Hero
1970
Oh, My Comrade!
Harumi
1970
Terror in the Streets
Shino
1970
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970
Apart from Life
Matsuko Fukuji
1970
Heat Wave Island
1969
Thousand Cranes
Toyo
1969
River Without a Bridge
1969
The Human Bullet
1968
The Final Winner?
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
Dorei kōjō
1968
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967
Song of Love
Orin
1967
Journey to the North
Hana Kanai
1967
Wrath of Daimajin
Old Woman Kane
1966
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
1966
Blood and Sea
1965
A Chain of Islands
Kikuko Sasaki
1965
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Hayashida's mother
1965
The Start of Life
Tomi Ishiguro
1965
Gazing at Love and Death
1964
Intentions of Murder
Kinu Takahashi
1964
A Story from Echigo
1964
The Long Death
1964
Only on Mondays
Yuka's mother
1964
Welcome, My Baby
Yuki Nishizaka
1964
The Insect Woman
Madam
1963
The Third Will
Kimie
1963
Bad Girl
1963
All My Children
Fusakichi's mother
1963
Beyond the Green Hills
Shiraki, Teacher
1963
Children of Izu
1962
Ashita au hito
1962
Asu no hanayome
1962
The Young and Bad
1962
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
Foundry Town
Ume
1962
Dolls floating down the river
Fuku
1962
Ningen Gari
1962
Nippon no obaachan
Kumi
1962
Buddha
Sumi
1961
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961
Enraptured
1961
Blind Devotion
Saoko
1961
Shokei zen'ya
1961
Marriageable Age
1961
The Sun's Burial
Chika, Batasuke's wife
1960
Bonchi
1960
Sexy Sign Suki Suki Suki
1960
The Human Wall
1959
Odd Obsession
Hana
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Grandma Shigeko
1959
Musume no boken
1958
Conflagration
Aki, Goichi's mother
1958
Stakeout
1958
Chance Meeting
Tetsu Koyanagi
1958
But the Flesh is Weak
Doctor
1957
Hole in One
Suga Akabane
1957
Actress
1956
Saigo no sentō-ki
1956
Summer Storm
Mitsu Asai
1956
The Shadow of Fear
1956
How Sorrowful
1956
Our Town
Otaka
1956
Shiawase wa doko ni
Kane
1956
Darkness at Noon
Satoe Miyazaki
1956
Jigoku no hatoba
1956
Love is Lost
Nobuyo
1956
The Burmese Harp
1956
The Motherless
1955
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
The Dawn of Judo
1955
A Hole of My Own Making
1955
The Heart
Hioki's mother
1955
The Wolves
1955
The Maid's Kid
1955
Ghost Story of Youth
Nanny at Okumura's
1955
Victory or Defeat
1954
A Billionaire
1954
The Valley Between Love and Death
Tetsu Ishida
1954
The Street Without Sun
Aunt of Matsutaro
1954
Tomoshibi
1954
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
Before Dawn
Ofuki
1953
A Japanese Tragedy
Ichizo's wife
1953
Yokubo
1953
Miniature
1953
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Ohana
1953
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
Aunt Otora
1952
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Fusako Kawai
1952
Beauty and the Thief
Mrs. Inokuma
1952
Children of Hiroshima
Otoyo
1952
Farewell to Spring
Old woman
1952
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
Hide
1952
The Bitch
Tami
1951
限りなき情熱
1951
男の哀愁
1951
Koibito
Mrs. Saeki
1951
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
White Beast
1950
Scandal
Yasu Hiruta
1950
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937