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
- The Burmese Harp as Old Woman
- Haze of Love
- Dangerous Women as Mrs. Kinumura
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
1981
- Call from Darkness as Sukeno
- Station as Masayo Mikami
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
1971
1970
- おくさまは18歳 as Asuka's grandmother
- Terror in the Streets as Shino
- The Little Hero
- Apart from Life as Matsuko Fukuji
- Oh, My Comrade! as Harumi
- Pure Land, Poisoned Sea as Goze / Narrator (voice)
- River Without a Bridge Part 2
1969
1967
- The Greatest Challenge of All
- Song of Love as Orin
- Journey to the North as Hana Kanai
1966
- Wrath of Daimajin as Old Woman Kane
- A Windmill, Tulips and Love
1965
- 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
- A Story from Echigo
- The Long Death
- Welcome, My Baby as Yuki Nishizaka
- Gazing at Love and Death
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
- Odd Obsession as Hana
- My Second Brother
- The Human Wall
- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan as Grandma Shigeko
1958
- Stakeout
- Conflagration as Aki, Goichi's mother
- Musume no boken
- Chance Meeting as Tetsu Koyanagi
- Omoni to shounen
1957
- But the Flesh is Weak as Doctor
- Hole in One as Suga Akabane
1956
- The Burmese Harp
- Actress
- Love is Lost as Nobuyo
- Darkness at Noon as Satoe Miyazaki
- How Sorrowful
- Our Town as Otaka
- Saigo no sentō-ki
- Shiawase wa doko ni as Kane
- Jigoku no hatoba
- The Shadow of Fear
- Summer Storm as Mitsu Asai
- Hana no unga
1955
- The Wolves
- Ghost Story of Youth as Nanny at Okumura's
- The Heart as Hioki's mother
- The Maid's Kid
- The Motherless
- A Hole of My Own Making
- The Dawn of Judo
- Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- Sisters
- Youth
1954
- A Billionaire
- The Street Without Sun as Aunt of Matsutaro
- The Valley Between Love and Death as Tetsu Ishida
- Tomoshibi
- Victory or Defeat
1953
- A Japanese Tragedy as Ichizo's wife
- Miniature
- A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land as Ohana
- Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
- Yokubo
- Jūdai no yūwaku
- Before Dawn as Ofuki
1952
- Children of Hiroshima as Otoyo
- Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete as Fusako Kawai
- Become a Mother, Become a Woman as Hide
- Farewell to Spring as Old woman
- Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
- Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to as Aunt Otora
- Beauty and the Thief as Mrs. Inokuma