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Tanie Kitabayashi
Born · May 21, 1911
Died · April 27, 2010 (98 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Bio
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.
Resurrection
Saki Naito
5.6
2003
Letter from the Mountain
Oume
8.4
2002
Rainbow Kids
Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
6.3
1991
Rikyu
Mother
7.5
1989
My Neighbor Totoro
Granny (voice)
8.1
1988
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Torah (voice)
6.1
1987
The Burmese Harp
Old Woman
5.2
1985
Love: Starting on a Journey
2.5
1985
Haze of Love
0.0
1985
Dangerous Women
Mrs. Kinumura
0.0
1985
White Snake Enchantment
Tane
6.5
1983
Our Teacher
0.0
1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
8.0
1983
Amagi Pass
Tea house's old woman
6.7
1983
Suspicion
Harue Shirakawa
6.7
1982
Station
Masayo Mikami
6.1
1981
Call from Darkness
Sukeno
5.7
1981
Writhing Tongue
Akira's mother
6.2
1980
Gassan
0.0
1979
The Three Undelivered Letters
6.0
1979
Nomugi Pass
6.3
1979
Never Give Up
Kiyo Matsushita
5.7
1978
Proof of the Man
7.4
1977
The Wild Daisy
Tamiko's Grandmother
0.0
1977
The Possessed
0.0
1976
The Sea of Eden
0.0
1976
Kobayashi Takiji
0.0
1974
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Moko's mother
0.0
1972
The Golden Bat Shows Up
0.0
1972
My Voiceless Friends
0.0
1972
Price of Life
Tome
0.0
1971
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
0.0
1971
Patience Has An End
5.7
1971
A Woman Called En
0.0
1971
Mayuko hitori
加野のぶ · (310 episodes)
0.0
1971
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
Goze / Narrator (voice)
0.0
1970
おくさまは18歳
Asuka's grandmother · (53 episodes)
0.0
1970
The Little Hero
0.0
1970
Oh, My Comrade!
Harumi
0.0
1970
Terror in the Streets
Shino
7.0
1970
River Without a Bridge Part 2
0.0
1970
Apart from Life
Matsuko Fukuji
5.8
1970
Heat Wave Island
6.0
1969
Thousand Cranes
Toyo
9.0
1969
River Without a Bridge
5.0
1969
The Human Bullet
6.1
1968
The Final Winner?
0.0
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
6.2
1968
Dorei kōjō
0.0
1968
The Greatest Challenge of All
0.0
1967
Song of Love
Orin
6.0
1967
Journey to the North
Hana Kanai
0.0
1967
Wrath of Daimajin
Old Woman Kane
6.4
1966
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
0.0
1966
Blood and Sea
0.0
1965
A Chain of Islands
Kikuko Sasaki
6.4
1965
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Hayashida's mother
6.8
1965
The Start of Life
Tomi Ishiguro
0.0
1965
Gazing at Love and Death
7.0
1964
Intentions of Murder
Kinu Takahashi
7.1
1964
A Story from Echigo
7.2
1964
The Long Death
0.0
1964
Only on Mondays
Yuka's mother
6.2
1964
Welcome, My Baby
Yuki Nishizaka
0.0
1964
The Insect Woman
Madam
7.4
1963
The Third Will
Kimie
8.0
1963
Bad Girl
7.8
1963
All My Children
Fusakichi's mother
7.2
1963
Beyond the Green Hills
Shiraki, Teacher
0.0
1963
Children of Izu
0.0
1962
Ashita au hito
0.0
1962
Asu no hanayome
0.0
1962
The Young and Bad
0.0
1962
Red Bud and White Flower
0.0
1962
Foundry Town
Ume
7.6
1962
Dolls floating down the river
Fuku
0.0
1962
Ningen Gari
0.0
1962
Nippon no obaachan
Kumi
0.0
1962
Buddha
Sumi
0.0
1961
A Good Man, A Good Day
0.0
1961
Enraptured
0.0
1961
Blind Devotion
Saoko
0.0
1961
Marriageable Age
0.0
1961
The Sun's Burial
Chika, Batasuke's wife
6.5
1960
Bonchi
7.0
1960
The Human Wall
5.0
1959
Odd Obsession
Hana
6.3
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Grandma Shigeko
5.7
1959
Musume no boken
0.0
1958
Conflagration
Aki, Goichi's mother
7.1
1958
Stakeout
6.9
1958
Chance Meeting
Tetsu Koyanagi
0.0
1958
The Flesh Is Weak
Doctor
6.0
1957
Hole in One
Suga Akabane
6.0
1957
Actress
0.0
1956
Saigo no sentō-ki
0.0
1956
Summer Storm
Mitsu Asai
6.0
1956
The Shadow of Fear
0.0
1956
How Sorrowful
0.0
1956
Our Town
Otaka
6.8
1956
Shiawase wa doko ni
Kane
0.0
1956
Darkness at Noon
Satoe Miyazaki
6.6
1956
Jigoku no hatoba
0.0
1956
Love is Lost
Nobuyo
7.0
1956
The Burmese Harp
7.9
1956
The Motherless
0.0
1955
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
6.0
1955
The Dawn of Judo
0.0
1955
A Hole of My Own Making
6.0
1955
The Heart
Hioki's mother
6.8
1955
The Wolves
6.8
1955
The Maid's Kid
0.0
1955
Ghost Story of Youth
Nanny at Okumura's
0.0
1955
A Billionaire
5.7
1954
The Valley Between Love and Death
Tetsu Ishida
0.0
1954
The Street Without Sun
Aunt of Matsutaro
0.0
1954
Tomoshibi
0.0
1954
Jūdai no yūwaku
0.0
1953
Before Dawn
Ofuki
0.0
1953
A Japanese Tragedy
Ichizo's wife
5.6
1953
Yokubo
0.0
1953
Miniature
8.0
1953
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Ohana
0.0
1953
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
0.0
1953
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
0.0
1952
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
Aunt Otora
0.0
1952
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Fusako Kawai
0.0
1952
Beauty and the Thief
Mrs. Inokuma
0.0
1952
Children of Hiroshima
Otoyo
7.1
1952
Farewell to Spring
Old woman
0.0
1952
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
Hide
0.0
1952
The Bitch
Tami
0.0
1951
限りなき情熱
0.0
1951
男の哀愁
0.0
1951
Koibito
Mrs. Saeki
5.4
1951
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
0.0
1950
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
0.0
1950
White Beast
6.0
1950
Scandal
Yasu Hiruta
6.9
1950
Learn from Experience, Part Two
6.2
1937