Tanie Kitabayashi
Biography
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.
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Movies (48)
Resurrection
as Saki Naito
2003
Letter from the Mountain
as Oume
2002
Rainbow Kids
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
1991
Rikyu
as Mother
1989
My Neighbor Totoro
as Granny (voice)
1988
Yamada Village Waltz
1988
Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Torah (voice)
1987
The Burmese Harp
as Old Woman
1985
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
Haze of Love
1985
Dangerous Women
as Mrs. Kinumura
1985
White Snake Enchantment
as Tane
1983
Our Teacher
1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
Amagi Pass
as Tea house's old woman
1983
Suspicion
as Harue Shirakawa
1982
Station
as Masayo Mikami
1981
Call from Darkness
as Sukeno
1981
Writhing Tongue
as Akira's mother
1980
Gassan
1979
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979
Nomugi Pass
1979
Never Give Up
as Kiyo Matsushita
1978
The Incident
as Kane Shinozaki
1978
Proof of the Man
1977
The Wild Daisy
as Tamiko's Grandmother
1977
The Possessed
1976
The Sea of Eden
1976
Kobayashi Takiji
1974
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
as Moko's mother
1972
The Golden Bat Shows Up
1972
My Voiceless Friends
1972
Price of Life
as Tome
1971
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971
Patience Has An End
1971
A Woman Called En
1971
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
as Goze / Narrator (voice)
1970
The Little Hero
1970
Oh, My Comrade!
as Harumi
1970
Terror in the Streets
as Shino
1970
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970
Apart from Life
as Matsuko Fukuji
1970
Heat Wave Island
1969
Thousand Cranes
as Toyo
1969
River Without a Bridge
1969
The Human Bullet
1968
The Final Winner?
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
