Tanie Kitabayashi
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.
157 acting credits
Acting · 157
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
Mayuko hitori
1971
おくさまは18歳
1970
The Insect Woman
1963
Amagi Pass
1983
White Snake Enchantment
1983
Station
1981
Proof of the Man
1977
The Burmese Harp
1956
Scandal
1950
The Wolves
1955
Odd Obsession
1959
Intentions of Murder
1964
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
Children of Hiroshima
1952
Buddha
1961
The Sun's Burial
1960
Suspicion
1982
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
Rikyu
1989
Never Give Up
1978
Wrath of Daimajin
1966
Foundry Town
1962
Yomigaeri
2003
Conflagration
1958
White Beast
1950
Stakeout
1958
The Third Will
1963
Only on Mondays
1964
A Japanese Tragedy
1953
My Second Brother
1959
Letter from the Mountain
2002
How Sorrowful
1956
The Incident
1978
Nomugi Pass
1979
Bad Girl
1963
The Burmese Harp
1985
A Billionaire
1954
Patience Has An End
1971
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967
A Chain of Islands
1965
The Human Bullet
1968
Darkness at Noon
1956
Call from Darkness
1981
Writhing Tongue
1980
The Maid's Kid
1955
The Final Winner?
1968
Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965
A Woman Called En
1971
Bonchi
1960
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
Slave Factory
1968
The Heart
1955
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
Haze of Love
1985
My Voiceless Friends
1972
Ghost Story of Youth
1955
But the Flesh is Weak
1957
The Possessed
1976
Song of Love
1967
Gazing at Love and Death
1964
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
Actress
1956
Rainbow Kids
1991
Thousand Cranes
1969
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953
Hole in One
1957
Kobayashi Takiji
1974
The Human Wall
1959
Terror in the Streets
1970
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
Asu no hanayome
1962
The Sea of Eden
1976
Yamada Village Waltz
1988
Our Town
1956
Miniature
1953
The Long Death
1964
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
The Motherless
1955
限りなき情熱
1951
Love is Lost
1956
The Start of Life
1965
The Street Without Sun
1954
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
The Bitch
1951
Heat Wave Island
1969
Chance Meeting
1958
Musume no boken
1958
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961
Oh, My Comrade!
1970
Our Teacher
1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
The Young and Bad
1962
Saigo no sentō-ki
1956
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
Gassan
1979
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
1966
Price of Life
1971
Welcome, My Baby
1964
Farewell to Spring
1952
Blind Devotion
1961
A Hole of My Own Making
1955
Apart from Life
1970
All My Children
1963
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
1952
Journey to the North
1967
Marriageable Age
1961
The Wild Daisy
1977
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
1972
Ningen Gari
1962
River Without a Bridge
1969
Dangerous Women
1985
Dolls floating down the river
1962
Koibito
1951
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
1952
The Dawn of Judo
1955
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953
Children of Izu
1962
Sisters
1955
Blood and Sea
1965
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
Jigoku no hatoba
1956
Nippon no obaachan
1962
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971
The Shadow of Fear
1956
Ashita au hito
1962
Shokei zen'ya
1961
Victory or Defeat
1954
Tomoshibi
1954
The Grave Tells All
1960
Yokubo
1953
Beauty and the Thief
1952
A Story from Echigo
1964
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
Summer Storm
1956
Daybreak Chorus
1963
The Little Hero
1970
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
1972
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970
男の哀愁
1951
Enraptured
1961
Before Dawn
1953
でかんしょ風来坊
1961
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
1970
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1966
Hana no unga
1956
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
1980
Omoni to shounen
1958
小父さんありがとう
1961
Youth
1955
Yakuza sensei
1960
Umarekawatta Tamegorô
1972