Tanie Kitabayashi
Acting
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.
As actor 162
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
Mayuko hitori
1971
Station
1981
Amagi Pass
1983
Summer Storm
1956
おくさまは18歳
1970
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970
Before Dawn
1953
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
Beauty and the Thief
1952
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
1972
The Shadow of Fear
1956
Blind Devotion
1961
A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
1955
White Snake Enchantment
1983
The Insect Woman
1963
The Burmese Harp
1956
Proof of the Man
1977
Scandal
1950
Never Give Up
1978
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
Odd Obsession
1959
Suspicion
1982
Yomigaeri
2003
Intentions of Murder
1964
Yakuza sensei
1960
Enraptured
1961
Letter from the Mountain
2002
Wrath of Daimajin
1966
Buddha
1961
Rikyu
1989
Foundry Town
1962
Hana no unga
1956
A Story from Echigo
1964
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
Writhing Tongue
1980
The Sun's Burial
1960
Omoni to shounen
1958
Conflagration
1958
Paper Pigeon
1959
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1966
Koga Manshion
1949
Rainbow Kids
1991
The Human Bullet
1968
The Last Lady
1967
Nomugi Pass
1979
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
Bonchi
1960
Bad Girl
1963
A Japanese Tragedy
1953
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
Stakeout
1958
Only on Mondays
1964
Children of Hiroshima
1952
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
1980
The Incident
1978
The Third Will
1963
Actress
1956
The Heart
1955
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
Youth
1955
Our Teacher
1983
Dangerous Women
1985
The Street Without Sun
1954
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979
Call from Darkness
1981
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
1972
The Human Wall
1959
My Second Brother
1959
White Beast
1950
The Burmese Harp
1985
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961
Gazing at Love and Death
1964
Apart from Life
1970
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953
Our Town
1956
小父さんありがとう
1961
The Wolves
1955
Heat Wave Island
1969
Sisters
1955
The Motherless
1955
Hole in One
1957
The Start of Life
1965
Haze of Love
1985
The Little Hero
1970
The Maid's Kid
1955
But the Flesh is Weak
1957
The Wild Daisy
1977
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
Patience Has An End
1971
Darkness at Noon
1956
The Possessed
1976
Koibito
1951
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
Tomoshibi
1954
Price of Life
1971
The Sea of Eden
1976
Ghost Story of Youth
1955
Miniature
1953
Yamada Village Waltz
1988
Journey to the North
1967
Thousand Cranes
1969
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
Ningen Gari
1962
The Bitch
1951
The Famous Wanderer
1961
Nippon no obaachan
1962
My Voiceless Friends
1972
Love is Lost
1956
Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965
Song of Love
1967
Asu no hanayome
1962
Marriageable Age
1961
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
A Chain of Islands
1965
Farewell to Spring
1952
The Long Death
1964
Dolls floating down the river
1962
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953
Oh, My Comrade!
1970
The Scarlet Bat
1950
Gassan
1979
A Woman Called En
1971
The Final Winner?
1968
River Without a Bridge
1969
Chance Meeting
1958
All My Children
1963
The Dawn of Judo
1955
Victory or Defeat
1954
Blood and Sea
1965
A Billionaire
1954
The Young and Bad
1962
How Sorrowful
1956
Jigoku no hatoba
1956
Terror in the Streets
1970
Yokubo
1953
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
Daybreak Chorus
1963
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
Kobayashi Takiji
1974
男の哀愁
1951
Children of Izu
1962
Musume no boken
1958
Welcome, My Baby
1964
The Grave Tells All
1960
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
1966
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
1952
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
1952
限りなき情熱
1951
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
Saigo no sentō-ki
1956
A Hole of My Own Making
1955
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
1972
Shokei zen'ya
1961
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952
Slave Factory
1968
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971
Ashita au hito
1962
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
1970