Tanie Kitabayashi
168 movies · 2 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 21, 1911
- Died
- Apr 27, 2010 (age 98)
- Place of birth
- Tokyo, Japan
- Also known as
- Таниэ Китабаяси · 北村谷栄 · 北林 谷栄
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.
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Known for
Tanie Kitabayashi: movies and TV shows
Acting (170)
- 2003 Yomigaeri
as Saki Naito
- 2002 Letter from the Mountain
as Oume
- 1991 Rainbow Kids
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
- 1989 Rikyu
as Mother
- 1988 My Neighbor Totoro
as Granny (voice)
- 1988
- 1987 Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Torah (voice)
- 1985 The Burmese Harp
as Old Woman
- 1985
- 1985
- 1985 Dangerous Women
as Mrs. Kinumura
- 1983 White Snake Enchantment
as Tane
- 1983
- 1983
- 1983 Amagi Pass
as Tea house's old woman
- 1982
- 1982 Suspicion
as Harue Shirakawa
- 1981 Station
as Masayo Mikami
- 1981 Call from Darkness
as Sukeno
- 1980
- 1980 Writhing Tongue
as Akira's mother
- 1979
- 1979
- 1979
- 1978 Never Give Up
as Kiyo Matsushita
- 1978 The Incident
as Kane Shinozaki
- 1977
- 1977 The Wild Daisy
as Tamiko's Grandmother
- 1976
- 1976
- 1974
- 1972 Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
as Moko's mother
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972 Umarekawatta Tamegorō
as Uma Ōnuma
- 1971 Price of Life
as Tome
- 1971
- 1971
- 1971
- 1971
- 1970 Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
as Goze / Narrator (voice)
- 1970
- 1970
- 1970 Oh, My Comrade!
as Harumi
- 1970 Terror in the Streets
as Shino
- 1970
- 1970 Apart from Life
as Matsuko Fukuji
- 1969
- 1969 Thousand Cranes
as Toyo
- 1969
- 1968 The Human Bullet
as Bookstore Owner's Wife
- 1968
- 1968
- 1968
- 1967 The Last Lady
as Tsuru
- 1967
- 1967 Song of Love
as Orin
- 1967 Journey to the North
as Hana Kanai
- 1966 Wrath of Daimajin
as Old Woman Kane
- 1966
- 1966
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965 A Chain of Islands
as Kikuko Sasaki
- 1965 Tale of Japanese Burglars
as Hayashida's mother
- 1965 The Start of Life
as Tomi Ishiguro
- 1965 Ane to imôto
as Itoko
- 1964
- 1964 Intentions of Murder
as Kinu Takahashi
- 1964
- 1964
- 1964 Only on Mondays
as Yuka's mother
- 1964 Welcome, My Baby
as Yuki Nishizaka
- 1963 Daybreak Chorus
as Old Woman
- 1963 The Insect Woman
as Madam
- 1963 The Third Will
as Kimie
- 1963
- 1963 All My Children
as Fusakichi's mother
- 1963 Beyond the Green Hills
as Shiraki, Teacher
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962 Foundry Town
as Ume
- 1962 Dolls floating down the river
as Fuku
- 1962
- 1962 Nippon no obaachan
as Kumi
- 1961 Buddha
as Sumi
- 1961
- 1961
- 1961
- 1961
- 1961 Blind Devotion
as Saoko
- 1961
- 1961
- 1960
- 1960 The Sun's Burial
as Chika
- 1960
- 1960
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 Odd Obsession
as Hana
- 1959 Paper Pigeon
as Yuki Kashiwabara
- 1959 Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as Grandma Shigeko
- 1958
- 1958 Conflagration
as Aki, Goichi's mother
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958 Chance Meeting
as Tetsu Koyanagi
- 1958
- 1957 But the Flesh is Weak
as Doctor
- 1957 Hole in One
as Suga Akabane
- 1956
- 1956
- 1956 Summer Storm
as Mitsu Asai
- 1956
- 1956
- 1956 Our Town
as Otaka
- 1956
- 1956 Shiawase wa doko ni
as Kane
- 1956 Darkness at Noon
as Satoe Miyazaki
- 1956
- 1956 Love is Lost
as Nobuyo
- 1956
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955 The Heart
as Hioki's mother
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955 Ghost Story of Youth
as Nanny at Okumura's
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1954
- 1954
- 1954 The Valley Between Love and Death
as Tetsu Ishida
- 1954 The Street Without Sun
as Aunt of Matsutaro
- 1954
- 1954
- 1953
- 1953
- 1953 Before the Dawn
as Ofuki
- 1953 A Japanese Tragedy
as Ichizo's wife
- 1953
- 1953
- 1953 A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
as Ohana
- 1953
- 1952
- 1952 Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
as Aunt Otora
- 1952 Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
as Fusako Kawai
- 1952 Beauty and the Thief
as Mrs. Inokuma
- 1952 Children of Hiroshima
as Otoyo
- 1952 Farewell to Spring
as Old woman
- 1952 Become a Mother, Become a Woman
as Hide
- 1951 The Bitch
as Tami
- 1951
- 1951
- 1951 Koibito
as Mrs. Saeki
- 1950
- 1950
- 1950
- 1950
- 1950 Scandal
as Yasu Hiruta
- 1949
- 1937