Tanie Kitabayashi
Acting • Born 1911-05-21 – Died 2010-04-27
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.
Filmography
152 credits
Musume no boken
Movie • 1958
My Neighbor Totoro
Movie • 1988
Granny (voice)
Red Bud and White Flower
Movie • 1962
Never Give Up
Movie • 1978
Kiyo Matsushita
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Movie • 1952
Rikyu
Movie • 1989
Mother
Jūdai no yūwaku
Movie • 1953
Dolls floating down the river
Movie • 1962
Fuku
The Insect Woman
Movie • 1963
Madam
Koibito
Movie • 1951
Mrs. Saeki
Beauty and the Thief
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Inokuma
Farewell to Spring
Movie • 1952
Old woman
Foundry Town
Movie • 1962
Ume
A Japanese Tragedy
Movie • 1953
Ichizo's wife
Resurrection
Movie • 2003
Saki Naito
White Beast
Movie • 1950
Children of Hiroshima
Movie • 1952
Otoyo
Conflagration
Movie • 1958
Aki, Goichi's mother
Apart from Life
Movie • 1970
Matsuko Fukuji
The Human Bullet
Movie • 1968
All My Children
Movie • 1963
Fusakichi's mother
Only on Mondays
Movie • 1964
Yuka's mother
Letter from the Mountain
Movie • 2002
Oume
Station
Movie • 1981
Masayo Mikami
The Heart
Movie • 1955
Hioki's mother
Hole in One
Movie • 1957
Suga Akabane
Blood and Sea
Movie • 1965
A Billionaire
Movie • 1954
River Without a Bridge Part 2
Movie • 1970
Writhing Tongue
Movie • 1980
Akira's mother
Gassan
Movie • 1979
A Woman Called En
Movie • 1971
The Greatest Challenge of All
Movie • 1967
The Wild Daisy
Movie • 1977
Tamiko's Grandmother
Bonchi
Movie • 1960
Saigo no sentō-ki
Movie • 1956
Asu no hanayome
Movie • 1962
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Movie • 1953
Ohana
Ashita au hito
Movie • 1962
男の哀愁
Movie • 1951
The Dawn of Judo
Movie • 1955
Dorei kōjō
Movie • 1968
Kobayashi Takiji
Movie • 1974
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
Movie • 1950
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Movie • 1950
Wrath of Daimajin
Movie • 1966
Old Woman Kane
Journey to the North
Movie • 1967
Hana Kanai
限りなき情熱
Movie • 1951
Heat Wave Island
Movie • 1969
Scandal
Movie • 1950
Yasu Hiruta
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
Movie • 1970
Goze / Narrator (voice)
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
Movie • 1971
The Sun's Burial
Movie • 1960
Chika
River Without a Bridge
Movie • 1969
White Snake Enchantment
Movie • 1983
Tane
Buddha
Movie • 1961
Sumi
The Sands of Kurobe
Movie • 1968
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
Movie • 1972
The Burmese Harp
Movie • 1985
Old Woman
Rainbow Kids
Movie • 1991
Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
The Possessed
Movie • 1976
How Sorrowful
Movie • 1956
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
Movie • 1952
Aunt Otora
Our Town
Movie • 1956
Otaka
A Hole of My Own Making
Movie • 1955
The Little Hero
Movie • 1970
The Motherless
Movie • 1955
Before Dawn
Movie • 1953
Ofuki
The Long Death
Movie • 1964
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Movie • 1965
Hayashida's mother
Beyond the Green Hills
Movie • 1963
Shiraki, Teacher
Odd Obsession
Movie • 1959
Hana
Stakeout
Movie • 1958
Call from Darkness
Movie • 1981
Sukeno
The Human Wall
Movie • 1959
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
Movie • 1966
Love: Starting on a Journey
Movie • 1985
Enraptured
Movie • 1961
The Maid's Kid
Movie • 1955
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Movie • 1959
Grandma Shigeko
A Story from Echigo
Movie • 1964
The Wolves
Movie • 1955
Patience Has An End
Movie • 1971
Bad Girl
Movie • 1963
Amagi Pass
Movie • 1983
Tea house's old woman
The Street Without Sun
Movie • 1954
Aunt of Matsutaro
Our Teacher
Movie • 1983
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Movie • 1952
Fusako Kawai
Welcome, My Baby
Movie • 1964
Yuki Nishizaka
The Final Winner?
Movie • 1968
Suspicion
Movie • 1982
Harue Shirakawa
Blind Devotion
Movie • 1961
Saoko
Terror in the Streets
Movie • 1970
Shino
The Sea of Eden
Movie • 1976
Haze of Love
Movie • 1985
Darkness at Noon
Movie • 1956
Satoe Miyazaki
The Shadow of Fear
Movie • 1956
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Movie • 1987
Torah (voice)
Love is Lost
Movie • 1956
Nobuyo
Chance Meeting
Movie • 1958
Tetsu Koyanagi
The Start of Life
Movie • 1965
Tomi Ishiguro
But the Flesh is Weak
Movie • 1957
Doctor
Oh, My Comrade!
Movie • 1970
Harumi
Marriageable Age
Movie • 1961
The Burmese Harp
Movie • 1956
Nippon no obaachan
Movie • 1962
Kumi
Intentions of Murder
Movie • 1964
Kinu Takahashi
The Bitch
Movie • 1951
Tami
A Chain of Islands
Movie • 1965
Kikuko Sasaki
Summer Storm
Movie • 1956
Mitsu Asai
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Movie • 1937
The Young and Bad
Movie • 1962
Ningen Gari
Movie • 1962
Nomugi Pass
Movie • 1979
Gazing at Love and Death
Movie • 1964
Proof of the Man
Movie • 1977
Miniature
Movie • 1953
Shiawase wa doko ni
Movie • 1956
Kane
The Third Will
Movie • 1963
Kimie
Thousand Cranes
Movie • 1969
Toyo
Children of Izu
Movie • 1962
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Movie • 1972
Moko's mother
My Voiceless Friends
Movie • 1972
The Three Undelivered Letters
Movie • 1979
Tora-san's Song of Love
Movie • 1983
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
Movie • 1952
Hide
Song of Love
Movie • 1967
Orin
Yokubo
Movie • 1953
Tomoshibi
Movie • 1954
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Movie • 1955
A Good Man, A Good Day
Movie • 1961
Price of Life
Movie • 1971
Tome
Jigoku no hatoba
Movie • 1956
Actress
Movie • 1956
Dangerous Women
Movie • 1985
Mrs. Kinumura
The Valley Between Love and Death
Movie • 1954
Tetsu Ishida
Ghost Story of Youth
Movie • 1955
Nanny at Okumura's
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
Movie • 1953
Shokei zen'ya
Movie • 1961
The Grave Tells All
Movie • 1960
Victory or Defeat
Movie • 1954
The Incident
Movie • 1978
Kane Shinozaki
Daybreak Chorus
Movie • 1963
Old Woman
Sisters
Movie • 1955
Yamada Village Waltz
Movie • 1988
でかんしょ風来坊
Movie • 1961
Omoni to shounen
Movie • 1958
My Second Brother
Movie • 1959
Yakuza sensei
Movie • 1960
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
Movie • 1980
おくさまは18歳
TV • 1970
Asuka's grandmother
Mayuko hitori
TV • 1971
加野のぶ