Tanie Kitabayashi
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1911-05-21
Day of Death
2010-04-27 (98 years old)
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 at a Tokyo hospital. She was 98.
Known For
Acting
(2003)
Resurrection
as Saki Naito
(2002)
Letter from the Mountain
as Oume
(1991)
Rainbow Kids
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
(1989)
Rikyu
as Mother
(1988)
My Neighbor Totoro
as Granny (voice)
(1987)
Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Torah (voice)
(1985)
(1985)
The Burmese Harp
as Old Woman
(1985)
(1985)
Dangerous Women
as Mrs. Kinumura
(1983)
White Snake Enchantment
as Tane
(1983)
(1983)
Amagi Pass
as Tea house's old woman
(1983)
(1982)
Suspicion
as Harue Shirakawa
(1981)
Call from Darkness
as Sukeno
(1981)
Station
as Masayo Mikami
(1980)
Writhing Tongue
as Akira's mother
(1979)
(1979)
(1979)
(1978)
Never Give Up
as Kiyo Matsushita
(1978)
The Incident
as Kane Shinozaki
(1977)
(1977)
The Wild Daisy
as Tamiko's Grandmother
(1976)
(1976)
(1974)
(1972)
(1972)
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
as Moko's mother
(1972)
(1971)
(1971)
Price of Life
as Tome
(1971)
(1971)
(1970)
Oh, My Comrade!
as Harumi
(1970)
(1970)
(1970)
Terror in the Streets
as Shino
(1970)
Apart from Life
as Matsuko Fukuji
(1970)
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
as Goze / Narrator (voice)
(1969)
(1969)
(1969)
Thousand Cranes
as Toyo
(1968)
(1968)
(1968)
(1968)
(1967)
Journey to the North
as Hana Kanai
(1967)
(1967)
Song of Love
as Orin
(1966)
Wrath of Daimajin
as Old Woman Kane
(1966)
(1965)
(1965)
The Start of Life
as Tomi Ishiguro
(1965)
A Chain of Islands
as Kikuko Sasaki
(1965)
Tale of Japanese Burglars
as Hayashida's mother
(1964)
(1964)
Only on Mondays
as Yuka's mother
(1964)
Intentions of Murder
as Kinu Takahashi
(1964)
(1964)
Welcome, My Baby
as Yuki Nishizaka
(1964)
(1963)
The Insect Woman
as Madam
(1963)
(1963)
All My Children
as Fusakichi's mother
(1963)
The Third Will
as Kimie
(1963)
Beyond the Green Hills
as Shiraki, Teacher
(1963)
Daybreak Chorus
as Old Woman
(1962)
(1962)
Foundry Town
as Ume
(1962)
Nippon no obaachan
as Kumi
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
(1961)
Buddha
as Sumi
(1961)
(1961)
(1961)
(1961)
Blind Devotion
as Saoko
(1961)
(1960)
(1960)
The Sun's Burial
as Chika
(1960)
(1959)
Odd Obsession
as Hana
(1959)
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as Grandma Shigeko
(1959)
(1958)
(1958)
Conflagration
as Aki, Goichi's mother
(1958)
(1958)
Chance Meeting
as Tetsu Koyanagi
(1957)
But the Flesh is Weak
as Doctor
(1957)
Hole in One
as Suga Akabane
(1956)
(1956)
(1956)
(1956)
(1956)
Our Town
as Otaka
(1956)
Summer Storm
as Mitsu Asai
(1956)
(1956)
Darkness at Noon
as Satoe Miyazaki
(1956)
Love is Lost
as Nobuyo
(1956)
Shiawase wa doko ni
as Kane
(1956)
(1955)
(1955)
The Heart
as Hioki's mother
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
Ghost Story of Youth
as Nanny at Okumura's
(1954)
(1954)
(1954)
The Street Without Sun
as Aunt of Matsutaro
(1954)
The Valley Between Love and Death
as Tetsu Ishida
(1954)
(1953)
A Japanese Tragedy
as Ichizo's wife
(1953)
(1953)
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
as Ohana
(1953)
(1953)
(1953)
Before Dawn
as Ofuki
(1953)
(1952)
Children of Hiroshima
as Otoyo
(1952)
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
as Aunt Otora
(1952)
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
as Fusako Kawai
(1952)
(1952)
Farewell to Spring
as Old woman
(1952)
(1952)
Beauty and the Thief
as Mrs. Inokuma
(1951)
(1951)
(1951)
Koibito
as Mrs. Saeki
(1951)
The Bitch
as Tami
(1950)
Scandal
as Yasu Hiruta
(1950)
(1950)
(1950)
(1937)