Tanie Kitabayashi

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1911-05-21 (99 years old)

Deathday

2010-04-27

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan

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 ...

Acting

1988

My Neighbor Totoro

as Granny (voice)

1978

Never Give Up

as Kiyo Matsushita

1989

Rikyu

as Mother

1963

1951

Koibito

as Mrs. Saeki

1952

Beauty and the Thief

as Mrs. Inokuma

1952

Farewell to Spring

as Old woman

1962

1953

A Japanese Tragedy

as Ichizo's wife

2003

Resurrection

as Saki Naito

1958

Conflagration

as Aki, Goichi's mother

1970

Apart from Life

as Matsuko Fukuji

1963

All My Children

as Fusakichi's mother

1964

Only on Mondays

as Yuka's mother

1981

Station

as Masayo Mikami

1955

The Heart

as Hioki's mother

1957

Hole in One

as Suga Akabane

1980

Writhing Tongue

as Akira's mother

1979

1977

The Wild Daisy

as Tamiko's Grandmother

1960

1966

Wrath of Daimajin

as Old Woman Kane

1967

1950

Scandal

as Yasu Hiruta

1970

Pure Land, Poisoned Sea

as Goze / Narrator (voice)

1960

The Sun's Burial

as Chika, Batasuke's wife

1961

Buddha

as Sumi

1985

The Burmese Harp

as Old Woman

1991

Rainbow Kids

as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa

1956

Our Town

as Otaka

1953

Before Dawn

as Ofuki

1965

Tale of Japanese Burglars

as Hayashida's mother

1963

Beyond the Green Hills

as Shiraki, Teacher

1959

1981

1983

Amagi Pass

as Tea house's old woman

1954

The Street Without Sun

as Aunt of Matsutaro

1952

1964

Welcome, My Baby

as Yuki Nishizaka

1982

Suspicion

as Harue Shirakawa

1961

1956

Darkness at Noon

as Satoe Miyazaki

1987

1956

Love is Lost

as Nobuyo

1958

Chance Meeting

as Tetsu Koyanagi

1965

The Start of Life

as Tomi Ishiguro

1970

1964

Intentions of Murder

as Kinu Takahashi

1951

The Bitch

as Tami

1965

A Chain of Islands

as Kikuko Sasaki

1956

Summer Storm

as Mitsu Asai

1963

1969

1967

1953

1971

1985

Dangerous Women

as Mrs. Kinumura

1955

Ghost Story of Youth

as Nanny at Okumura's

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