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
- Resurrection 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
- Dangerous Women as Mrs. Kinumura
- The Burmese Harp as Old Woman
- Haze of Love
- Love: Starting on a Journey
1983
- White Snake Enchantment as Tane
- Amagi Pass as Tea house's old woman
- Our Teacher
- Tora-san's Song of Love
1982
- Suspicion as Harue Shirakawa
1981
- Station as Masayo Mikami
- Call from Darkness as Sukeno
1980
- Writhing Tongue as Akira's mother
1978
- The Incident as Kane Shinozaki
- Never Give Up as Kiyo Matsushita
1977
- The Wild Daisy as Tamiko's Grandmother
- Proof of the Man
1974
1972
- Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte as Moko's mother
- My Voiceless Friends
- The Golden Bat Shows Up
1971
1970
- Oh, My Comrade! as Harumi
- The Little Hero
- Terror in the Streets as Shino
- Apart from Life as Matsuko Fukuji
- River Without a Bridge Part 2
- Pure Land, Poisoned Sea as Goze / Narrator (voice)
- おくさまは18歳 as Asuka's grandmother
1969
1967
- Song of Love as Orin
- Journey to the North as Hana Kanai
- The Greatest Challenge of All
1966
- A Windmill, Tulips and Love
- Wrath of Daimajin as Old Woman Kane
1965
- The Start of Life as Tomi Ishiguro
- A Chain of Islands as Kikuko Sasaki
- Tale of Japanese Burglars as Hayashida's mother
- Blood and Sea
1964
- Gazing at Love and Death
- A Story from Echigo
- Intentions of Murder as Kinu Takahashi
- Only on Mondays as Yuka's mother
- Welcome, My Baby as Yuki Nishizaka
- The Long Death
1963
- The Insect Woman as Madam
- The Third Will as Kimie
- Bad Girl
- Beyond the Green Hills as Shiraki, Teacher
- All My Children as Fusakichi's mother
- Daybreak Chorus as Old Woman
1962
1961
- Enraptured
- A Good Man, A Good Day
- Buddha as Sumi
- Blind Devotion as Saoko
- Marriageable Age
- Shokei zen'ya
- でかんしょ風来坊
1960
- Bonchi
- The Sun's Burial as Chika
- The Grave Tells All
1959
- Odd Obsession as Hana
- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan as Grandma Shigeko
- The Human Wall
1958
- Conflagration as Aki, Goichi's mother
- Stakeout
- Musume no boken
- Chance Meeting as Tetsu Koyanagi
1957
- But the Flesh is Weak as Doctor
- Hole in One as Suga Akabane
1956
- The Burmese Harp
- How Sorrowful
- Summer Storm as Mitsu Asai
- Actress
- The Shadow of Fear
- Saigo no sentō-ki
- Love is Lost as Nobuyo
- Darkness at Noon as Satoe Miyazaki
- Shiawase wa doko ni as Kane
- Our Town as Otaka
- Jigoku no hatoba
1955
- A Hole of My Own Making
- Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- The Maid's Kid
- Sisters
- Ghost Story of Youth as Nanny at Okumura's
- The Wolves
- The Heart as Hioki's mother
- The Dawn of Judo
- The Motherless
1954
- The Valley Between Love and Death as Tetsu Ishida
- The Street Without Sun as Aunt of Matsutaro
- A Billionaire
- Tomoshibi
- Victory or Defeat
1953
- A Japanese Tragedy as Ichizo's wife
- A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land as Ohana
- Jūdai no yūwaku
- Before Dawn as Ofuki
- Miniature
- Yokubo
- Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1952
- Children of Hiroshima as Otoyo
- Beauty and the Thief as Mrs. Inokuma
- Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete as Fusako Kawai
- Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
- Farewell to Spring as Old woman
- Become a Mother, Become a Woman as Hide
- Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to as Aunt Otora