Tanie Kitabayashi
Known for acting · Born 21 May 1911 · Died 27 April 2010 · aged 98 · Tokyo, Japan
169 credits
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
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
Mayuko hitori
1971
おくさまは18歳
1970
Rainbow Kids
1991
Odd Obsession
1959
Rikyu
1989
The Sun's Burial
1960
Conflagration
1958
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
Only on Mondays
1964
The Human Bullet
1968
Gazing at Love and Death
1964
Acting (169)
2003YomigaeriSaki NaitoFilm
2002Letter from the MountainOumeFilm
1991Rainbow KidsMrs. Toshiko 'Toji' YanagawaFilm
1989RikyuMotherFilm
1988My Neighbor TotoroGranny (voice)Film
1988Yamada Village WaltzFilm
1987Twilight of the CockroachesTorah (voice)Film
1985The Burmese HarpOld WomanFilm
1985Love: Starting on a JourneyFilm
1985Haze of LoveFilm
1985Dangerous WomenMrs. KinumuraFilm
1983Amagi PassTea house's old womanFilm
1983White Snake EnchantmentTaneFilm
1983Tora-san's Song of LoveFilm
1983Our TeacherFilm
1982SuspicionHarue ShirakawaFilm
1982The Legend of SayoFilm
1981StationMasayo MikamiFilm
1981Call from DarknessSukenoFilm
1980Writhing TongueAkira's motherFilm
1980Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soulFilm
1979The Three Undelivered LettersFilm
1979Nomugi PassFilm
1979GassanFilm
1978Never Give UpKiyo MatsushitaFilm
1978The IncidentKane ShinozakiFilm
1977Proof of the ManFilm
1977The Wild DaisyTamiko's GrandmotherFilm
1976The PossessedFilm
1976The Sea of EdenFilm
1974Kobayashi TakijiFilm
1972Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is HereFilm
1972My Voiceless FriendsFilm
1972Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatteMoko's motherFilm
1972Umarekawatta TamegorōUma ŌnumaFilm
1971Patience Has An EndFilm
1971A Woman Called EnFilm
1971Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted MansionFilm
1971Price of LifeTomeFilm
1971Mayuko hitori加野のぶ · 310 episodesSeries
1970Apart from LifeMatsuko FukujiFilm
1970Terror in the StreetsShinoFilm
1970The Little HeroFilm
1970Oh, My Comrade!HarumiFilm
1970River Without a Bridge Part 2Film
1970Pure Land, Poisoned SeaGoze / Narrator (voice)Film
1970おくさまは18歳Asuka's grandmother · 53 episodesSeries
1969Thousand CranesToyoFilm
1969Heat Wave IslandFilm
1969River Without a BridgeFilm
1968The Human BulletBookstore Owner's WifeFilm
1968The Sands of KurobeFilm
1968Slave FactoryFilm
1968The Final Winner?Film
1967Song of LoveOrinFilm
1967The Greatest Challenge of AllFilm
1967Journey to the NorthHana KanaiFilm
1967The Last LadyTsuruFilm
1966Wrath of DaimajinOld Woman KaneFilm
1966A Windmill, Tulips and LoveFilm
1966She Was Like a Wild ChrysanthemumFilm
1965Tale of Japanese BurglarsHayashida's motherFilm
1965A Chain of IslandsKikuko SasakiFilm
1965Trigger Happy RomeoFilm
1965Blood and SeaFilm
1965The Start of LifeTomi IshiguroFilm
1965Ane to imôtoItokoFilm
1964Intentions of MurderKinu TakahashiFilm
1964Only on MondaysYuka's motherFilm
1964A Story from EchigoFilm
1964Gazing at Love and DeathFilm
1964The Long DeathFilm
1964Welcome, My BabyYuki NishizakaFilm
1963The Insect WomanMadamFilm
1963Bad GirlFilm
1963All My ChildrenFusakichi's motherFilm
1963The Third WillKimieFilm
1963Beyond the Green HillsShiraki, TeacherFilm
1963Daybreak ChorusOld WomanFilm
1962Foundry TownUmeFilm
1962Red Bud and White FlowerFilm
1962Nippon no obaachanKumiFilm
1962Dolls floating down the riverFukuFilm
1962Asu no hanayomeFilm
1962Ashita au hitoFilm
1962The Young and BadFilm
1962Ningen GariFilm
1962Children of IzuFilm
1961BuddhaSumiFilm
1961Blind DevotionSaokoFilm
1961Marriageable AgeFilm
1961EnrapturedFilm
1961A Good Man, A Good DayFilm
1961Shokei zen'yaFilm
1961The Famous WandererFilm
1961小父さんありがとうFilm
1960The Sun's BurialChikaFilm
1960BonchiFilm
1960Yakuza senseiFilm
1960The Grave Tells AllFilm
1959Odd ObsessionHanaFilm
1959Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in JapanGrandma ShigekoFilm
1959My Second BrotherFilm
1959The Human WallFilm
1959Paper PigeonYuki KashiwabaraFilm
1958ConflagrationAki, Goichi's motherFilm
1958StakeoutFilm
1958Chance MeetingTetsu KoyanagiFilm
1958Musume no bokenFilm
1958Omoni to shounenFilm
1957But the Flesh is WeakDoctorFilm
1957Hole in OneSuga AkabaneFilm
1956The Burmese HarpFilm
1956Our TownOtakaFilm
1956Darkness at NoonSatoe MiyazakiFilm
1956Love is LostNobuyoFilm
1956Summer StormMitsu AsaiFilm
1956Shiawase wa doko niKaneFilm
1956ActressFilm
1956Saigo no sentō-kiFilm
1956How SorrowfulFilm
1956The Shadow of FearFilm
1956Jigoku no hatobaFilm
1956Hana no ungaFilm
1955The HeartHioki's motherFilm
1955The WolvesFilm
1955The Maid's KidFilm
1955A Hole of My Own MakingFilm
1955Policeman's Diary, Part 2Film
1955SistersFilm
1955The MotherlessFilm
1955Ghost Story of YouthNanny at Okumura'sFilm
1955The Dawn of JudoFilm
1955YouthFilm
1955A Girl Who Delivers HappinessFilm
1955Dawn ChorusFilm
1955Inhibited LoveFilm
1954A BillionaireFilm
1954The Street Without SunAunt of MatsutaroFilm
1954TomoshibiFilm
1954The Valley Between Love and DeathTetsu IshidaFilm
1954Victory or DefeatFilm
1954Shinzōyaburi no okaFilm
1953A Japanese TragedyIchizo's wifeFilm
1953MiniatureFilm
1953A Lonely Woman in a Lonely LandOhanaFilm
1953Before the DawnOfukiFilm
1953DesireFilm
1953Jūdai no yūwakuFilm
1953Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni buFilm
1953OutlawFilm
1952Children of HiroshimaOtoyoFilm
1952Beauty and the ThiefMrs. InokumaFilm
1952Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi buFilm
1952Farewell to SpringOld womanFilm
1952Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha toAunt OtoraFilm
1952Muntinlupa no yo wa fuketeFusako KawaiFilm
1952Become a Mother, Become a WomanHideFilm
1951KoibitoMrs. SaekiFilm
1951The BitchTamiFilm
1951男の哀愁Film
1951限りなき情熱Film
1950ScandalYasu HirutaFilm
1950White BeastFilm
1950Les Miserables I: God and the DevilFilm
1950Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and FreedomFilm
1950The Scarlet BatFilm
1949Koga ManshionFilm
1937Learn from Experience, Part TwoFilm