Tanie Kitabayashi
- Acting
- May 21, 1911 · Tokyo, Japan
- April 27, 2010
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
- The Legend of Sayo
- 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
- The Final Winner?
- The Sands of Kurobe
- Slave Factory
- The Last Lady · Tsuru
- The Greatest Challenge of All
- Song of Love · Orin
- Journey to the North · Hana Kanai
- Wrath of Daimajin · Old Woman Kane
- A Windmill, Tulips and Love
- She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
- Trigger Happy Romeo
- Blood and Sea
- A Chain of Islands · Kikuko Sasaki
- Tale of Japanese Burglars · Hayashida's mother
- The Start of Life · Tomi Ishiguro
- Ane to imôto · Itoko
- Gazing at Love and Death
- Intentions of Murder · Kinu Takahashi
- A Story from Echigo
- The Long Death
- Only on Mondays · Yuka's mother
- Welcome, My Baby · Yuki Nishizaka
- Daybreak Chorus · Old Woman
- The Insect Woman · Madam
- The Third Will · Kimie
- Bad Girl
- All My Children · Fusakichi's mother
- Beyond the Green Hills · Shiraki, Teacher
- Children of Izu