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