Tanie Kitabayashi
Born: 1911-05-21 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: 2010-04-27
Known For: 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.
Filmography
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)
- Yamada Village Waltz
1987
- Twilight of the Cockroaches as Torah (voice)
1985
- Love: Starting on a Journey
- Dangerous Women as Mrs. Kinumura
- The Burmese Harp as Old Woman
- Haze of Love
1983
- White Snake Enchantment as Tane
- Amagi Pass as Tea house's old woman
- Tora-san's Song of Love
- Our Teacher
1982
- Suspicion as Harue Shirakawa
- The Legend of Sayo
1981
- Station as Masayo Mikami
- Call from Darkness as Sukeno
1980
1978
- Never Give Up as Kiyo Matsushita
- The Incident as Kane Shinozaki
1977
- Proof of the Man
- The Wild Daisy as Tamiko's Grandmother
1974
1972
- Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte as Moko's mother
- Umarekawatta Tamegorō as Uma Ōnuma
- My Voiceless Friends
- Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
1971
1970
- おくさまは18歳 as Asuka's grandmother
- River Without a Bridge Part 2
- Apart from Life as Matsuko Fukuji
- Oh, My Comrade! as Harumi
- The Little Hero
- Terror in the Streets as Shino
- Pure Land, Poisoned Sea as Goze / Narrator (voice)
1969
1968
- The Human Bullet as Bookstore Owner's Wife
- The Sands of Kurobe
- Slave Factory
- The Final Winner?
1967
- The Greatest Challenge of All
- Journey to the North as Hana Kanai
- The Last Lady as Tsuru
- Song of Love as Orin
1966
- Wrath of Daimajin as Old Woman Kane
- A Windmill, Tulips and Love
- She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1965
- Tale of Japanese Burglars as Hayashida's mother
- Ane to imôto as Itoko
- A Chain of Islands as Kikuko Sasaki
- Trigger Happy Romeo
- The Start of Life as Tomi Ishiguro
- Blood and Sea
1964
- A Story from Echigo
- Only on Mondays as Yuka's mother
- Intentions of Murder as Kinu Takahashi
- Gazing at Love and Death
- The Long Death
- Welcome, My Baby as Yuki Nishizaka
1963
- Bad Girl
- The Insect Woman as Madam
- The Third Will as Kimie
- Beyond the Green Hills as Shiraki, Teacher
- Daybreak Chorus as Old Woman
- All My Children as Fusakichi's mother
1962
1961
1960
1959
- Odd Obsession as Hana
- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan as Grandma Shigeko
- My Second Brother
- The Human Wall
- Paper Pigeon as Yuki Kashiwabara
1958
- Conflagration as Aki, Goichi's mother
- Stakeout
- Omoni to shounen
- Chance Meeting as Tetsu Koyanagi
- Musume no boken
1957
- But the Flesh is Weak as Doctor
- Hole in One as Suga Akabane
1956
- The Burmese Harp
- Darkness at Noon as Satoe Miyazaki
- The Shadow of Fear
- Hana no unga
- Summer Storm as Mitsu Asai
- How Sorrowful
- Saigo no sentō-ki
- Love is Lost as Nobuyo
- Actress
- Our Town as Otaka
- Jigoku no hatoba
- Shiawase wa doko ni as Kane
1955
- Dawn Chorus
- Inhibited Love
- The Maid's Kid
- A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
- The Wolves
- The Heart as Hioki's mother
- Youth
- Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- A Hole of My Own Making
- Sisters
- Ghost Story of Youth as Nanny at Okumura's
- The Motherless
- The Dawn of Judo
1954
- Shinzōyaburi no oka
- The Valley Between Love and Death as Tetsu Ishida
- A Billionaire
- The Street Without Sun as Aunt of Matsutaro
- Tomoshibi
- Victory or Defeat
1953
- Outlaw
- Miniature
- A Japanese Tragedy as Ichizo's wife
- Before the Dawn as Ofuki
- Desire
- A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land as Ohana
- Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
- Jūdai no yūwaku
1952
- Children of Hiroshima as Otoyo
- Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
- Beauty and the Thief as Mrs. Inokuma
- Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete as Fusako Kawai
- Become a Mother, Become a Woman as Hide
- Farewell to Spring as Old woman
- Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to as Aunt Otora