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Tanie Kitabayashi

Tanie Kitabayashi

Actor · Born 1911-05-21 · Tokyo, Japan

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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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. My Neighbor Totoro (1988) — Granny (voice)
  2. The Burmese Harp (1956)
  3. Scandal (1950) — Yasu Hiruta
  4. The Insect Woman (1963) — Madam
  5. Intentions of Murder (1964) — Kinu Takahashi
  6. Children of Hiroshima (1952) — Otoyo
  7. Wrath of Daimajin (1966) — Old Woman Kane
  8. Rikyu (1989) — Mother
  9. Odd Obsession (1959) — Hana
  10. Conflagration (1958) — Aki, Goichi's mother
  11. The Sun's Burial (1960) — Chika
  12. Stakeout (1958)
  13. Amagi Pass (1983) — Tea house's old woman
  14. Yomigaeri (2003) — Saki Naito
  15. Proof of the Man (1977)
  16. A Japanese Tragedy (1953) — Ichizo's wife
  17. The Human Bullet (1968) — Bookstore Owner's Wife
  18. The Heart (1955) — Hioki's mother
  19. Station (1981) — Masayo Mikami
  20. Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987) — Torah (voice)
  21. Letter from the Mountain (2002) — Oume
  22. White Beast (1950)
  23. Rainbow Kids (1991) — Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
  24. Never Give Up (1978) — Kiyo Matsushita
  25. Foundry Town (1962) — Ume
  26. The Wolves (1955)
  27. Suspicion (1982) — Harue Shirakawa
  28. The Burmese Harp (1985) — Old Woman
  29. Our Town (1956) — Otaka
  30. Tale of Japanese Burglars (1965) — Hayashida's mother
  31. Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan (1959) — Grandma Shigeko
  32. My Second Brother (1959)
  33. The Sands of Kurobe (1968)
  34. Call from Darkness (1981) — Sukeno
  35. Patience Has An End (1971)
  36. Bad Girl (1963)
  37. The Three Undelivered Letters (1979)
  38. Koibito (1951) — Mrs. Saeki
  39. All My Children (1963) — Fusakichi's mother
  40. A Chain of Islands (1965) — Kikuko Sasaki