
Tanie Kitabayashi
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 21, 1911
- Died
- April 27, 2010 (aged 98)
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Japan
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
Movie · as Saki Naito

Letter from the Mountain
Movie · as Oume

Rainbow Kids
Movie · as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa

Rikyu
Movie · as Mother

My Neighbor Totoro
Movie · as Granny (voice)

Yamada Village Waltz
Movie

Twilight of the Cockroaches
Movie · as Torah (voice)

The Burmese Harp
Movie · as Old Woman

Love: Starting on a Journey
Movie
Haze of Love
Movie

Dangerous Women
Movie · as Mrs. Kinumura

White Snake Enchantment
Movie · as Tane

Amagi Pass
Movie · as Tea house's old woman

Our Teacher
Movie

Tora-san's Song of Love
Movie

Suspicion
Movie · as Harue Shirakawa

The Legend of Sayo
Movie

Station
Movie · as Masayo Mikami

Call from Darkness
Movie · as Sukeno

Writhing Tongue
Movie · as Akira's mother

Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
Movie

Gassan
Movie

Nomugi Pass
Movie

The Three Undelivered Letters
Movie

Never Give Up
Movie · as Kiyo Matsushita

The Incident
Movie · as Kane Shinozaki

The Wild Daisy
Movie · as Tamiko's Grandmother

Proof of the Man
Movie

The Possessed
Movie

The Sea of Eden
Movie

Kobayashi Takiji
Movie

Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
Movie

Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Movie · as Moko's mother

My Voiceless Friends
Movie

Umarekawatta Tamegorō
Movie · as Uma Ōnuma

A Woman Called En
Movie

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
Movie

Patience Has An End
Movie

Price of Life
Movie · as Tome

Mayuko hitori
TV · as 加野のぶ · 310 eps

Apart from Life
Movie · as Matsuko Fukuji

River Without a Bridge Part 2
Movie

Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
Movie · as Goze / Narrator (voice)

The Little Hero
Movie

Terror in the Streets
Movie · as Shino

Oh, My Comrade!
Movie · as Harumi

おくさまは18歳
TV · as Asuka's grandmother · 53 eps

Heat Wave Island
Movie

River Without a Bridge
Movie

Thousand Cranes
Movie · as Toyo

The Human Bullet
Movie · as Bookstore Owner's Wife

Slave Factory
Movie

The Sands of Kurobe
Movie

The Final Winner?
Movie

The Greatest Challenge of All
Movie

Journey to the North
Movie · as Hana Kanai

Song of Love
Movie · as Orin

The Last Lady
Movie · as Tsuru

Wrath of Daimajin
Movie · as Old Woman Kane
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
Movie

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Movie

Blood and Sea
Movie

Tale of Japanese Burglars
Movie · as Hayashida's mother

The Start of Life
Movie · as Tomi Ishiguro

A Chain of Islands
Movie · as Kikuko Sasaki

Ane to imôto
Movie · as Itoko

Trigger Happy Romeo
Movie

Only on Mondays
Movie · as Yuka's mother

The Long Death
Movie

A Story from Echigo
Movie

Welcome, My Baby
Movie · as Yuki Nishizaka

Intentions of Murder
Movie · as Kinu Takahashi

Gazing at Love and Death
Movie

The Insect Woman
Movie · as Madam

All My Children
Movie · as Fusakichi's mother

Beyond the Green Hills
Movie · as Shiraki, Teacher

Bad Girl
Movie

The Third Will
Movie · as Kimie

Daybreak Chorus
Movie · as Old Woman

Red Bud and White Flower
Movie

Dolls floating down the river
Movie · as Fuku

Foundry Town
Movie · as Ume

Asu no hanayome
Movie

Ashita au hito
Movie

Nippon no obaachan
Movie · as Kumi

The Young and Bad
Movie

Ningen Gari
Movie

Children of Izu
Movie

Buddha
Movie · as Sumi
Enraptured
Movie

Blind Devotion
Movie · as Saoko

Marriageable Age
Movie

A Good Man, A Good Day
Movie

Shokei zen'ya
Movie

The Famous Wanderer
Movie
小父さんありがとう
Movie

Adorable Schemers
Movie

Yoru wa ijiwaru
Movie

Bonchi
Movie

The Sun's Burial
Movie · as Chika

The Grave Tells All
Movie

Yakuza sensei
Movie

Genroku onna daimyō
Movie

Odd Obsession
Movie · as Hana

The Human Wall
Movie

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Movie · as Grandma Shigeko

My Second Brother
Movie

Paper Pigeon
Movie · as Yuki Kashiwabara

A Week in Hawaii
Movie

Musume no boken
Movie

Conflagration
Movie · as Aki, Goichi's mother

Stakeout
Movie

Chance Meeting
Movie · as Tetsu Koyanagi
Omoni to shounen
Movie

My Son's Revolt
Movie

Hole in One
Movie · as Suga Akabane

But the Flesh is Weak
Movie · as Doctor

Saigo no sentō-ki
Movie
How Sorrowful
Movie

Our Town
Movie · as Otaka

Darkness at Noon
Movie · as Satoe Miyazaki

The Shadow of Fear
Movie

Love is Lost
Movie · as Nobuyo

The Burmese Harp
Movie

Summer Storm
Movie · as Mitsu Asai

Shiawase wa doko ni
Movie · as Kane

Jigoku no hatoba
Movie

Actress
Movie

Hana no unga
Movie

The Heart
Movie · as Hioki's mother

The Dawn of Judo
Movie

A Hole of My Own Making
Movie
The Motherless
Movie

The Maid's Kid
Movie

The Wolves
Movie

Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Movie

Ghost Story of Youth
Movie · as Nanny at Okumura's

Sisters
Movie

Youth
Movie

A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
Movie

Dawn Chorus
Movie

Inhibited Love
Movie

A Billionaire
Movie

The Street Without Sun
Movie · as Aunt of Matsutaro

Tomoshibi
Movie

The Valley Between Love and Death
Movie · as Tetsu Ishida

Victory or Defeat
Movie

Shinzōyaburi no oka
Movie

Jūdai no yūwaku
Movie

A Japanese Tragedy
Movie · as Ichizo's wife

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Movie · as Ohana

Before the Dawn
Movie · as Ofuki

Miniature
Movie

Desire
Movie

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
Movie

Outlaw
Movie

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Movie

Beauty and the Thief
Movie · as Mrs. Inokuma

Farewell to Spring
Movie · as Old woman

Children of Hiroshima
Movie · as Otoyo
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
Movie · as Aunt Otora

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Movie · as Fusako Kawai

Become a Mother, Become a Woman
Movie · as Hide

Koibito
Movie · as Mrs. Saeki

男の哀愁
Movie

限りなき情熱
Movie

The Bitch
Movie · as Tami

White Beast
Movie

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
Movie

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Movie

Scandal
Movie · as Yasu Hiruta

The Scarlet Bat
Movie

Koga Manshion
Movie

Learn from Experience, Part Two
Movie