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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Resurrection
Character:Saki Naito
Release Date:18/01/2003
Letter from the Mountain
Character:Oume
Release Date:05/10/2002
Rainbow Kids
Character:Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
Release Date:15/01/1991
Rikyu
Character:Mother
Release Date:15/09/1989
My Neighbor Totoro
Character:Granny (voice)
Release Date:16/04/1988
Yamada Village Waltz
Character:
Release Date:11/02/1988
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Character:Torah (voice)
Release Date:21/11/1987
The Burmese Harp
Character:Old Woman
Release Date:20/07/1985
Love: Starting on a Journey
Character:
Release Date:26/01/1985
Haze of Love
Character:
Release Date:03/01/1985
Dangerous Women
Character:Mrs. Kinumura
Release Date:01/01/1985
White Snake Enchantment
Character:Tane
Release Date:12/11/1983
Our Teacher
Character:
Release Date:24/08/1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
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Release Date:06/08/1983
Amagi Pass
Character:Tea house's old woman
Release Date:19/02/1983
Suspicion
Character:Harue Shirakawa
Release Date:11/09/1982
Station
Character:Masayo Mikami
Release Date:07/11/1981
Call from Darkness
Character:Sukeno
Release Date:26/09/1981
Writhing Tongue
Character:Akira's mother
Release Date:22/11/1980
Gassan
Character:
Release Date:20/10/1979
The Three Undelivered Letters
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Release Date:06/10/1979
Nomugi Pass
Character:
Release Date:30/06/1979
Never Give Up
Character:Kiyo Matsushita
Release Date:07/10/1978
The Incident
Character:Kane Shinozaki
Release Date:03/06/1978
Proof of the Man
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Release Date:08/10/1977
The Wild Daisy
Character:Tamiko's Grandmother
Release Date:09/07/1977
The Possessed
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Release Date:16/10/1976
The Sea of Eden
Character:
Release Date:24/04/1976
Kobayashi Takiji
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Release Date:20/02/1974
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Character:Moko's mother
Release Date:12/06/1972
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
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Release Date:13/05/1972
My Voiceless Friends
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Release Date:29/04/1972
Price of Life
Character:Tome
Release Date:24/07/1971
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
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Release Date:18/07/1971
Patience Has An End
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Release Date:25/06/1971
A Woman Called En
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Release Date:29/05/1971
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
Character:Goze / Narrator (voice)
Release Date:14/11/1970
The Little Hero
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Release Date:23/09/1970
Oh, My Comrade!
Character:Harumi
Release Date:19/09/1970
Terror in the Streets
Character:Shino
Release Date:04/07/1970
River Without a Bridge Part 2
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Release Date:25/04/1970
Apart from Life
Character:Matsuko Fukuji
Release Date:30/01/1970
Heat Wave Island
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Release Date:29/10/1969
Thousand Cranes
Character:Toyo
Release Date:19/04/1969
River Without a Bridge
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Release Date:01/02/1969
The Human Bullet
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Release Date:22/10/1968
The Final Winner?
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Release Date:28/08/1968
The Sands of Kurobe
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Release Date:01/03/1968
Dorei kōjō
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Release Date:25/01/1968
The Greatest Challenge of All
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Release Date:05/08/1967
Song of Love
Character:Orin
Release Date:29/04/1967
Journey to the North
Character:Hana Kanai
Release Date:03/01/1967
Wrath of Daimajin
Character:Old Woman Kane
Release Date:10/12/1966
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
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Release Date:25/06/1966
Blood and Sea
Character:
Release Date:01/10/1965
A Chain of Islands
Character:Kikuko Sasaki
Release Date:26/05/1965
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Character:Hayashida's mother
Release Date:01/05/1965
The Start of Life
Character:Tomi Ishiguro
Release Date:29/04/1965
Gazing at Love and Death
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Release Date:19/09/1964
Intentions of Murder
Character:Kinu Takahashi
Release Date:28/06/1964
A Story from Echigo
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Release Date:09/05/1964
The Long Death
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Release Date:12/04/1964
Only on Mondays
Character:Yuka's mother
Release Date:04/03/1964
Welcome, My Baby
Character:Yuki Nishizaka
Release Date:23/02/1964
Daybreak Chorus
Character:Old Woman
Release Date:08/12/1963
The Insect Woman
Character:Madam
Release Date:16/11/1963
The Third Will
Character:Kimie
Release Date:31/03/1963
Bad Girl
Character:
Release Date:16/03/1963
All My Children
Character:Fusakichi's mother
Release Date:01/02/1963
Beyond the Green Hills
Character:Shiraki, Teacher
Release Date:03/01/1963
Children of Izu
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Release Date:21/11/1962
Ashita au hito
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Release Date:16/09/1962
Asu no hanayome
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Release Date:09/09/1962
The Young and Bad
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Release Date:09/09/1962
Red Bud and White Flower
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Release Date:10/06/1962
Foundry Town
Character:Ume
Release Date:08/04/1962
Dolls floating down the river
Character:Fuku
Release Date:03/03/1962
Ningen Gari
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Release Date:23/01/1962
Nippon no obaachan
Character:Kumi
Release Date:03/01/1962
Buddha
Character:Sumi
Release Date:31/10/1961
A Good Man, A Good Day
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Release Date:13/08/1961
Enraptured
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Release Date:18/04/1961
でかんしょ風来坊
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Release Date:19/03/1961
Blind Devotion
Character:Saoko
Release Date:08/03/1961
Shokei zen'ya
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Release Date:18/02/1961
Marriageable Age
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Release Date:14/01/1961
The Sun's Burial
Character:Chika
Release Date:09/08/1960
Bonchi
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Release Date:14/04/1960
The Grave Tells All
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Release Date:03/01/1960
The Human Wall
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Release Date:18/10/1959
Odd Obsession
Character:Hana
Release Date:23/06/1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Character:Grandma Shigeko
Release Date:29/03/1959
Musume no boken
Character:
Release Date:01/11/1958
Conflagration
Character:Aki, Goichi's mother
Release Date:22/09/1958
Stakeout
Character:
Release Date:15/01/1958
Chance Meeting
Character:Tetsu Koyanagi
Release Date:15/01/1958
But the Flesh is Weak
Character:Doctor
Release Date:29/10/1957
Hole in One
Character:Suga Akabane
Release Date:15/09/1957
Actress
Character:
Release Date:27/11/1956
Saigo no sentō-ki
Character:
Release Date:17/10/1956
Summer Storm
Character:Mitsu Asai
Release Date:01/10/1956
The Shadow of Fear
Character:
Release Date:11/09/1956
How Sorrowful
Character:
Release Date:07/09/1956
Our Town
Character:Otaka
Release Date:28/08/1956
Shiawase wa doko ni
Character:Kane
Release Date:19/07/1956
Darkness at Noon
Character:Satoe Miyazaki
Release Date:26/03/1956
Jigoku no hatoba
Character:
Release Date:04/03/1956
Love is Lost
Character:Nobuyo
Release Date:05/02/1956
The Burmese Harp
Character:
Release Date:21/01/1956
The Motherless
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Release Date:04/12/1955
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
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Release Date:16/11/1955
The Dawn of Judo
Character:
Release Date:28/09/1955
A Hole of My Own Making
Character:
Release Date:28/09/1955
The Heart
Character:Hioki's mother
Release Date:31/08/1955
The Wolves
Character:
Release Date:03/07/1955
The Maid's Kid
Character:
Release Date:28/06/1955
Ghost Story of Youth
Character:Nanny at Okumura's
Release Date:19/04/1955
Sisters
Character:
Release Date:10/04/1955
Victory or Defeat
Character:
Release Date:01/12/1954
A Billionaire
Character:
Release Date:22/11/1954
The Valley Between Love and Death
Character:Tetsu Ishida
Release Date:21/09/1954
The Street Without Sun
Character:Aunt of Matsutaro
Release Date:24/06/1954
Tomoshibi
Character:
Release Date:22/06/1954
Jūdai no yūwaku
Character:
Release Date:29/12/1953
Before Dawn
Character:Ofuki
Release Date:13/10/1953
A Japanese Tragedy
Character:Ichizo's wife
Release Date:17/06/1953
Yokubo
Character:
Release Date:13/05/1953
Miniature
Character:
Release Date:01/04/1953
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Character:Ohana
Release Date:20/02/1953
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
Character:
Release Date:19/02/1953
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Character:
Release Date:06/11/1952
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
Character:Aunt Otora
Release Date:04/11/1952
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Character:Fusako Kawai
Release Date:09/10/1952
Beauty and the Thief
Character:Mrs. Inokuma
Release Date:22/09/1952
Children of Hiroshima
Character:Otoyo
Release Date:06/08/1952
Farewell to Spring
Character:Old woman
Release Date:28/03/1952
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
Character:Hide
Release Date:17/01/1952
The Bitch
Character:Tami
Release Date:10/08/1951
限りなき情熱
Character:
Release Date:01/06/1951
男の哀愁
Character:
Release Date:13/04/1951
Koibito
Character:Mrs. Saeki
Release Date:10/03/1951
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Character:
Release Date:14/11/1950
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
Character:
Release Date:03/11/1950
White Beast
Character:
Release Date:03/06/1950
Scandal
Character:Yasu Hiruta
Release Date:26/04/1950
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Character:
Release Date:18/12/1937
Television Appearances
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