Tanie Kitabayashi
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.
Fotos
Filme (172)

Yomigaeri
2003 · Saki Naito

Letter from the Mountain
2002 · Oume

Rainbow Kids
1991 · Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa

Rikyu
1989 · Mother

My Neighbor Totoro
1988 · Granny (voice)

Yamada Village Waltz
1988

Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987 · Torah (voice)

The Burmese Harp
1985 · Old Woman

Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
Haze of Love
1985

Dangerous Women
1985 · Mrs. Kinumura

White Snake Enchantment
1983 · Tane

Our Teacher
1983

Tora-san's Song of Love
1983

Amagi Pass
1983 · Tea house's old woman

The Legend of Sayo
1982

Suspicion
1982 · Harue Shirakawa

Station
1981 · Masayo Mikami

Call from Darkness
1981 · Sukeno

Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
1980

Writhing Tongue
1980 · Akira's mother

Gassan
1979

The Three Undelivered Letters
1979

Nomugi Pass
1979

Never Give Up
1978 · Kiyo Matsushita

The Incident
1978 · Kane Shinozaki

Proof of the Man
1977

The Wild Daisy
1977 · Tamiko's Grandmother

The Possessed
1976

The Sea of Eden
1976

Kobayashi Takiji
1974

Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
1972 · Moko's mother

Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
1972

My Voiceless Friends
1972

Umarekawatta Tamegorō
1972 · Uma Ōnuma

Price of Life
1971 · Tome

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971

Patience Has An End
1971

A Woman Called En
1971

Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
1970 · Goze / Narrator (voice)

The Little Hero
1970

Oh, My Comrade!
1970 · Harumi

Terror in the Streets
1970 · Shino

River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970

Apart from Life
1970 · Matsuko Fukuji

Heat Wave Island
1969

Thousand Cranes
1969 · Toyo

River Without a Bridge
1969

The Human Bullet
1968 · Bookstore Owner's Wife

The Final Winner?
1968

The Sands of Kurobe
1968

Slave Factory
1968

The Last Lady
1967 · Tsuru

The Greatest Challenge of All
1967

Song of Love
1967 · Orin

Journey to the North
1967 · Hana Kanai

Wrath of Daimajin
1966 · Old Woman Kane
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
1966

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1966

Trigger Happy Romeo
1965

Blood and Sea
1965

A Chain of Islands
1965 · Kikuko Sasaki

Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965 · Hayashida's mother

The Start of Life
1965 · Tomi Ishiguro

Ane to imôto
1965 · Itoko

Gazing at Love and Death
1964

Intentions of Murder
1964 · Kinu Takahashi

A Story from Echigo
1964

The Long Death
1964

Only on Mondays
1964 · Yuka's mother

Welcome, My Baby
1964 · Yuki Nishizaka

Daybreak Chorus
1963 · Old Woman

The Insect Woman
1963 · Madam

The Third Will
1963 · Kimie

Bad Girl
1963

All My Children
1963 · Fusakichi's mother

Beyond the Green Hills
1963 · Shiraki, Teacher

Children of Izu
1962

Ashita au hito
1962

Asu no hanayome
1962

The Young and Bad
1962

Red Bud and White Flower
1962

Foundry Town
1962 · Ume

Dolls floating down the river
1962 · Fuku

Ningen Gari
1962

Nippon no obaachan
1962 · Kumi

Buddha
1961 · Sumi

A Good Man, A Good Day
1961

Yoru wa ijiwaru
1961
Enraptured
1961

Adorable Schemers
1961

The Famous Wanderer
1961
小父さんありがとう
1961

Blind Devotion
1961 · Saoko

Shokei zen'ya
1961

Marriageable Age
1961

Yakuza sensei
1960

Genroku onna daimyō
1960

The Sun's Burial
1960 · Chika

Bonchi
1960

The Grave Tells All
1960

A Week in Hawaii
1959

My Second Brother
1959

The Human Wall
1959

Odd Obsession
1959 · Hana

Paper Pigeon
1959 · Yuki Kashiwabara

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959 · Grandma Shigeko

Musume no boken
1958

Conflagration
1958 · Aki, Goichi's mother

My Son's Revolt
1958

Stakeout
1958

Chance Meeting
1958 · Tetsu Koyanagi
Omoni to shounen
1958

But the Flesh is Weak
1957 · Doctor

Hole in One
1957 · Suga Akabane

Actress
1956

Saigo no sentō-ki
1956

Summer Storm
1956 · Mitsu Asai

The Shadow of Fear
1956
How Sorrowful
1956

Our Town
1956 · Otaka

Hana no unga
1956

Shiawase wa doko ni
1956 · Kane

Darkness at Noon
1956 · Satoe Miyazaki

Jigoku no hatoba
1956

Love is Lost
1956 · Nobuyo

The Burmese Harp
1956
The Motherless
1955

Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955

Youth
1955

The Dawn of Judo
1955

A Hole of My Own Making
1955

The Heart
1955 · Hioki's mother

The Wolves
1955

The Maid's Kid
1955

Inhibited Love
1955

Ghost Story of Youth
1955 · Nanny at Okumura's

Sisters
1955

Dawn Chorus
1955

A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
1955

Victory or Defeat
1954

A Billionaire
1954

The Valley Between Love and Death
1954 · Tetsu Ishida

The Street Without Sun
1954 · Aunt of Matsutaro

Tomoshibi
1954

Shinzōyaburi no oka
1954

Jūdai no yūwaku
1953

Outlaw
1953

Before the Dawn
1953 · Ofuki

A Japanese Tragedy
1953 · Ichizo's wife

Desire
1953

Miniature
1953

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953 · Ohana

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
1952 · Aunt Otora

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952 · Fusako Kawai

Beauty and the Thief
1952 · Mrs. Inokuma

Children of Hiroshima
1952 · Otoyo

Farewell to Spring
1952 · Old woman

Become a Mother, Become a Woman
1952 · Hide

The Bitch
1951 · Tami

限りなき情熱
1951

男の哀愁
1951

Koibito
1951 · Mrs. Saeki

The Scarlet Bat
1950

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950

White Beast
1950

Scandal
1950 · Yasu Hiruta

Koga Manshion
1949

Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937


