Known For
Acting
Born
May 21, 1911
Died
Apr 27, 2010
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Credits
162 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Yomigaeri
Saki Naito
Letter from the Mountain
Oume
Rainbow Kids
Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
Rikyu
Mother
My Neighbor Totoro
Granny (voice)
Yamada Village Waltz
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Torah (voice)
The Burmese Harp
Old Woman
Love: Starting on a Journey
Haze of Love
Dangerous Women
Mrs. Kinumura
White Snake Enchantment
Tane
Our Teacher
Tora-san's Song of Love
Amagi Pass
Tea house's old woman
Suspicion
Harue Shirakawa
Station
Masayo Mikami
Call from Darkness
Sukeno
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
Writhing Tongue
Akira's mother
Gassan
The Three Undelivered Letters
Nomugi Pass
Never Give Up
Kiyo Matsushita
The Incident
Kane Shinozaki
Proof of the Man
The Wild Daisy
Tamiko's Grandmother
The Possessed
The Sea of Eden
Kobayashi Takiji
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Moko's mother
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
My Voiceless Friends
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
Uma Ōnuma
Price of Life
Tome
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
Patience Has An End
A Woman Called En
Mayuko hitori
加野のぶ
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
Goze / Narrator (voice)
おくさまは18歳
Asuka's grandmother
The Little Hero
Oh, My Comrade!
Harumi
Terror in the Streets
Shino
River Without a Bridge Part 2
Apart from Life
Matsuko Fukuji
Heat Wave Island
Thousand Cranes
Toyo
River Without a Bridge
The Human Bullet
Bookstore Owner's Wife