Tanie Kitabayashi
Acting
Born: May 21, 1911 · Tokyo, Japan
Died: April 27, 2010 (aged 98)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
The Burmese Harp
1956
Scandal
1950
The Insect Woman
1963
Intentions of Murder
1964
Children of Hiroshima
1952
Wrath of Daimajin
1966
Rikyu
1989
Odd Obsession
1959
Conflagration
1958
The Sun's Burial
1960
Photos (1)
Movies (161)
My Neighbor Totoro
Granny (voice)
My Son's Revolt
1958
The Burmese Harp
1956
The Insect Woman
Madam
Stakeout
1958
Odd Obsession
Hana
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
Amagi Pass
Tea house's old woman
Rikyu
Mother
A Japanese Tragedy
Ichizo's wife
White Beast
1950
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
Yomigaeri
Saki Naito
Scandal
Yasu Hiruta
White Snake Enchantment
Tane
Wrath of Daimajin
Old Woman Kane
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Hayashida's mother
The Human Bullet
Bookstore Owner's Wife
Rainbow Kids
Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
Station
Masayo Mikami
Suspicion
Harue Shirakawa
Foundry Town
Ume
Darkness at Noon
Satoe Miyazaki
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Torah (voice)
Trigger Happy Romeo
1965
Only on Mondays
Yuka's mother
Intentions of Murder
Kinu Takahashi
Proof of the Man
1977
Dawn Chorus
1955
Dangerous Women
Mrs. Kinumura
Conflagration
Aki, Goichi's mother
Children of Hiroshima
Otoyo
The Sun's Burial
Chika
My Second Brother
1959
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
Buddha
Sumi
The Heart
Hioki's mother
Writhing Tongue
Akira's mother
Inhibited Love
1955
Yakuza sensei
1960
Never Give Up
Kiyo Matsushita
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979
Paper Pigeon
Yuki Kashiwabara
The Burmese Harp
Old Woman
Call from Darkness
Sukeno
A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
1955
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
Outlaw
1953
Song of Love
Orin
The Street Without Sun
Aunt of Matsutaro
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
The Long Death
1964
Tomoshibi
1954
The Start of Life
Tomi Ishiguro
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953
A Story from Echigo
1964
The Grave Tells All
1960
Our Town
Otaka
Shinzōyaburi no oka
1954
Hole in One
Suga Akabane
Price of Life
Tome
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Ohana
Beyond the Green Hills
Shiraki, Teacher
The Valley Between Love and Death
Tetsu Ishida
The Maid's Kid
1955
Nomugi Pass
1979
The Incident
Kane Shinozaki
The Wolves
1955
The Legend of Sayo
1982
A Billionaire
1954
Ghost Story of Youth
Nanny at Okumura's
Letter from the Mountain
Oume
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
Marriageable Age
1961
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
Bad Girl
1963
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
Miniature
1953
The Bitch
Tami
Actress
1956
The Human Wall
1959
Apart from Life
Matsuko Fukuji
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971
Welcome, My Baby
Yuki Nishizaka
Thousand Cranes
Toyo
Patience Has An End
1971
Kobayashi Takiji
1974
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Grandma Shigeko
The Sea of Eden
1976
Desire
1953
The Young and Bad
1962
Blood and Sea
1965
The Possessed
1976
Bonchi
1960
But the Flesh is Weak
Doctor
Gazing at Love and Death
1964
Victory or Defeat
1954
Yamada Village Waltz
1988
Gassan
1979
Terror in the Streets
Shino
Hana no unga
1956
The Scarlet Bat
1950
Ningen Gari
1962
A Woman Called En
1971
Farewell to Spring
Old woman
Our Teacher
1983
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
1972
限りなき情熱
1951
A Hole of My Own Making
1955
The Last Lady
Tsuru
The Final Winner?
1968
The Third Will
Kimie
Jigoku no hatoba
1956
A Chain of Islands
Kikuko Sasaki
The Famous Wanderer
1961
The Dawn of Judo
1955
The Little Hero
1970
Koibito
Mrs. Saeki
Children of Izu
1962
Slave Factory
1968
All My Children
Fusakichi's mother
Chance Meeting
Tetsu Koyanagi
Before the Dawn
Ofuki
Heat Wave Island
1969
Nippon no obaachan
Kumi
Blind Devotion
Saoko
Ashita au hito
1962
My Voiceless Friends
1972
Journey to the North
Hana Kanai
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
Uma Ōnuma
Asu no hanayome
1962
Love is Lost
Nobuyo
Oh, My Comrade!
Harumi
Shiawase wa doko ni
Kane
Shokei zen'ya
1961
Beauty and the Thief
Mrs. Inokuma
Saigo no sentō-ki
1956
The Shadow of Fear
1956
Daybreak Chorus
Old Woman
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
Hide
Youth
1955
The Wild Daisy
Tamiko's Grandmother
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
1980
Summer Storm
Mitsu Asai
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1966
River Without a Bridge
1969
Koga Manshion
1949
Musume no boken
1958
Dolls floating down the river
Fuku
Ane to imôto
Itoko
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
Goze / Narrator (voice)
Sisters
1955
男の哀愁
1951
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Fusako Kawai
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Moko's mother
A Week in Hawaii
1959
