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 (156)
My Neighbor Totoro
Granny (voice)
Never Give Up
Kiyo Matsushita
Proof of the Man
1977
White Snake Enchantment
Tane
Thousand Cranes
Toyo
Amagi Pass
Tea house's old woman
The Burmese Harp
1956
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Torah (voice)
Letter from the Mountain
Oume
Station
Masayo Mikami
Shinzōyaburi no oka
1954
The Insect Woman
Madam
Rainbow Kids
Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
Bonchi
1960
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Grandma Shigeko
Conflagration
Aki, Goichi's mother
The Sun's Burial
Chika
But the Flesh is Weak
Doctor
My Second Brother
1959
Beauty and the Thief
Mrs. Inokuma
Intentions of Murder
Kinu Takahashi
Blind Devotion
Saoko
Outlaw
1953
Before Dawn
Ofuki
Scandal
Yasu Hiruta
Odd Obsession
Hana
Wrath of Daimajin
Old Woman Kane
Yomigaeri
Saki Naito
Gazing at Love and Death
1964
Children of Hiroshima
Otoyo
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Moko's mother
The Street Without Sun
Aunt of Matsutaro
The Bitch
Tami
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
The Shadow of Fear
1956
Suspicion
Harue Shirakawa
The Human Bullet
Bookstore Owner's Wife
Only on Mondays
Yuka's mother
Song of Love
Orin
Writhing Tongue
Akira's mother
A Story from Echigo
1964
Summer Storm
Mitsu Asai
Call from Darkness
Sukeno
A Japanese Tragedy
Ichizo's wife
Buddha
Sumi
White Beast
1950
The Wolves
1955
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970
The Third Will
Kimie
Stakeout
1958
Rikyu
Mother
Darkness at Noon
Satoe Miyazaki
The Burmese Harp
Old Woman
Heat Wave Island
1969
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961
The Heart
Hioki's mother
Bad Girl
1963
River Without a Bridge
1969
Victory or Defeat
1954
The Incident
Kane Shinozaki
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979
The Maid's Kid
1955
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
Dangerous Women
Mrs. Kinumura
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
Nomugi Pass
1979
The Legend of Sayo
1982
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Hayashida's mother
The Scarlet Bat
1950
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
1980
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Ohana
The Possessed
1976
Patience Has An End
1971
A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
1955
Welcome, My Baby
Yuki Nishizaka
The Valley Between Love and Death
Tetsu Ishida
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
The Last Lady
Tsuru
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
Shiawase wa doko ni
Kane
Ashita au hito
1962
Dolls floating down the river
Fuku
My Voiceless Friends
1972
Our Teacher
1983
Oh, My Comrade!
Harumi
Foundry Town
Ume
Miniature
1953
Beyond the Green Hills
Shiraki, Teacher
A Billionaire
1954
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
Hole in One
Suga Akabane
Apart from Life
Matsuko Fukuji
The Human Wall
1959
Kobayashi Takiji
1974
Journey to the North
Hana Kanai
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
Slave Factory
1968
Yakuza sensei
1960
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
Daybreak Chorus
Old Woman
The Long Death
1964
Ghost Story of Youth
Nanny at Okumura's
The Grave Tells All
1960
The Sea of Eden
1976
Tomoshibi
1954
The Wild Daisy
Tamiko's Grandmother
Koga Manshion
1949
The Famous Wanderer
1961
The Young and Bad
1962
A Woman Called En
1971
Marriageable Age
1961
Actress
1956
Gassan
1979
Ane to imôto
Itoko
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
Hide
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1966
Ningen Gari
1962
A Chain of Islands
Kikuko Sasaki
Our Town
Otaka
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Fusako Kawai
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
Price of Life
Tome
Terror in the Streets
Shino
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
1972
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971
Sisters
1955
Asu no hanayome
1962
Koibito
Mrs. Saeki
All My Children
Fusakichi's mother
The Little Hero
1970
限りなき情熱
1951
A Hole of My Own Making
1955
Hana no unga
1956
Farewell to Spring
Old woman
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967
Saigo no sentō-ki
1956
The Start of Life
Tomi Ishiguro
Yamada Village Waltz
1988
The Final Winner?
1968
Musume no boken
1958
Nippon no obaachan
Kumi
Shokei zen'ya
1961
Chance Meeting
Tetsu Koyanagi
男の哀愁
1951
The Dawn of Judo
1955
Blood and Sea
1965
Youth
1955
Paper Pigeon
Yuki Kashiwabara
Desire
1953
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
Uma Ōnuma
Love is Lost
Nobuyo
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
Jigoku no hatoba
1956
Children of Izu
1962
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
Goze / Narrator (voice)
