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
| Birth Location | Tokyo, Japan |
|---|---|
| Born | 1911-05-21 |
| Died | 2010-04-27 |
Movies
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
Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Torah (voice)
1987
The Burmese Harp
as Old Woman
1985
1985
White Snake Enchantment
as Tane
1983
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
1979
1979
Never Give Up
as Kiyo Matsushita
1978
1977
The Wild Daisy
as Tamiko's Grandmother
1977
1976
1976
1974
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
as Moko's mother
1972
1972
Price of Life
as Tome
1971
1971
1971
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
as Goze / Narrator (voice)
1970
1970
Oh, My Comrade!
as Harumi
1970
Terror in the Streets
as Shino
1970
Apart from Life
as Matsuko Fukuji
1970
1969
Thousand Cranes
as Toyo
1969
1968
1968
1968
1968
Song of Love
as Orin
1967
Journey to the North
as Hana Kanai
1967
Wrath of Daimajin
as Old Woman Kane
1966
1965
A Chain of Islands
as Kikuko Sasaki
1965
Tale of Japanese Burglars
as Hayashida's mother
1965
The Start of Life
as Tomi Ishiguro
1965
Intentions of Murder
as Kinu Takahashi
1964
1964
1964
Only on Mondays
as Yuka's mother
1964
Welcome, My Baby
as Yuki Nishizaka
1964
The Insect Woman
as Madam
1963
The Third Will
as Kimie
1963
1963
All My Children
as Fusakichi's mother
1963
Beyond the Green Hills
as Shiraki, Teacher
1963
1962
1962
1962
1962
1962
Dolls floating down the river
as Fuku
1962
1962
Nippon no obaachan
as Kumi
1962
Buddha
as Sumi
1961
1961
Blind Devotion
as Saoko
1961
1961
The Sun's Burial
as Chika, Batasuke's wife
1960
1960
1959
Odd Obsession
as Hana
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as Grandma Shigeko
1959
1958
Conflagration
as Aki, Goichi's mother
1958
Chance Meeting
as Tetsu Koyanagi
1958
1958
The Flesh Is Weak
as Doctor
1957
Hole in One
as Suga Akabane
1957
1956
1956
Summer Storm
as Mitsu Asai
1956
1956
1956
Our Town
as Otaka
1956
Shiawase wa doko ni
as Kane
1956
Darkness at Noon
as Satoe Miyazaki
1956
1956
Love is Lost
as Nobuyo
1956
1956
1955
1955
The Heart
as Hioki's mother
1955
1955
1954
The Street Without Sun
as Aunt of Matsutaro
1954
1954
1953
Before Dawn
as Ofuki
1953
A Japanese Tragedy
as Ichizo's wife
1953
1953
1953
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
as Ohana
1953
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
as Aunt Otora
1952
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
as Fusako Kawai
1952
Beauty and the Thief
as Mrs. Inokuma
1952
Children of Hiroshima
as Otoyo
1952
Farewell to Spring
as Old woman
1952
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
as Hide
1952
The Bitch
as Tami
1951
1951
1951
Koibito
as Mrs. Saeki
1951
1950
Scandal
as Yasu Hiruta
1950
Tanie Kitabayashi hasn't worked on any movies or TV shows