Tanie Kitabayashi
Born: 1911-05-21
• Tokyo, Japan
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
Resurrection
Letter from the Mountain
Rainbow Kids
Rikyu
My Neighbor Totoro
Yamada Village Waltz
Twilight of the Cockroaches
The Burmese Harp
Love: Starting on a Journey
No Image
Haze of Love
Dangerous Women
White Snake Enchantment
Our Teacher
Tora-san's Song of Love
Amagi Pass
Suspicion
Station
Call from Darkness
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
Writhing Tongue
Gassan
The Three Undelivered Letters
Nomugi Pass
Never Give Up
The Incident
Proof of the Man
The Wild Daisy
The Possessed
The Sea of Eden
Kobayashi Takiji
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
My Voiceless Friends
Price of Life
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
Patience Has An End
A Woman Called En
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
No Image
The Little Hero
Oh, My Comrade!
Terror in the Streets
River Without a Bridge Part 2
Apart from Life
Heat Wave Island
Thousand Cranes
River Without a Bridge
The Human Bullet
The Final Winner?
The Sands of Kurobe
Slave Factory
The Greatest Challenge of All
Song of Love
Journey to the North
Wrath of Daimajin
No Image
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
Blood and Sea
A Chain of Islands
Tale of Japanese Burglars
The Start of Life
Gazing at Love and Death
Intentions of Murder
A Story from Echigo
The Long Death
Only on Mondays
Welcome, My Baby
Daybreak Chorus
The Insect Woman
The Third Will
Bad Girl
All My Children
Beyond the Green Hills
Children of Izu
Ashita au hito
Asu no hanayome
The Young and Bad
Red Bud and White Flower
Foundry Town
Dolls floating down the river
Ningen Gari
Nippon no obaachan
Buddha
A Good Man, A Good Day
No Image
Enraptured
でかんしょ風来坊
Blind Devotion
Shokei zen'ya
Marriageable Age
Yakuza sensei
The Sun's Burial
Bonchi
The Grave Tells All
My Second Brother
The Human Wall
Odd Obsession
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Musume no boken
Conflagration
Stakeout
Chance Meeting
No Image
Omoni to shounen