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Tanie Kitabayashi

Born 1911-05-21

Died 2010-04-27

📍 Tokyo, Japan

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 145

Letter from the Mountain

as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa

My Neighbor Totoro

as Granny (voice)

Yamada Village Waltz

Twilight of the Cockroaches

as Torah (voice)

The Burmese Harp

Love: Starting on a Journey

Dangerous Women

as Mrs. Kinumura

White Snake Enchantment

Tora-san's Song of Love

as Tea house's old woman

as Harue Shirakawa

as Masayo Mikami

Call from Darkness

Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul

Writhing Tongue

as Akira's mother

The Three Undelivered Letters

as Kiyo Matsushita

as Kane Shinozaki

Proof of the Man

as Tamiko's Grandmother

The Sea of Eden

Kobayashi Takiji

Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte

as Moko's mother

Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here

My Voiceless Friends

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion

Patience Has An End

A Woman Called En

as 加野のぶ

Pure Land, Poisoned Sea

as Goze / Narrator (voice)

おくさまは18歳

as Asuka's grandmother

Oh, My Comrade!

Terror in the Streets

River Without a Bridge Part 2

Apart from Life

as Matsuko Fukuji

Heat Wave Island

Thousand Cranes

River Without a Bridge

The Human Bullet

The Final Winner?

The Sands of Kurobe

The Greatest Challenge of All

Journey to the North

Wrath of Daimajin

as Old Woman Kane

A Chain of Islands

as Kikuko Sasaki

Tale of Japanese Burglars

as Hayashida's mother

The Start of Life

as Tomi Ishiguro

Gazing at Love and Death

Intentions of Murder

as Kinu Takahashi

A Story from Echigo

Only on Mondays

as Yuka's mother

Welcome, My Baby

as Yuki Nishizaka

Daybreak Chorus

The Insect Woman

All My Children

as Fusakichi's mother

Beyond the Green Hills

as Shiraki, Teacher

Children of Izu

Asu no hanayome

The Young and Bad

Red Bud and White Flower

Dolls floating down the river

Nippon no obaachan

A Good Man, A Good Day

でかんしょ風来坊

Marriageable Age

The Sun's Burial

The Grave Tells All

My Second Brother

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

as Grandma Shigeko

Musume no boken

as Aki, Goichi's mother

as Tetsu Koyanagi

But the Flesh is Weak

as Suga Akabane

Saigo no sentō-ki

The Shadow of Fear

Shiawase wa doko ni

Darkness at Noon

as Satoe Miyazaki

Jigoku no hatoba

The Burmese Harp

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

The Dawn of Judo

A Hole of My Own Making

as Hioki's mother

Ghost Story of Youth

as Nanny at Okumura's

Victory or Defeat

The Valley Between Love and Death

as Tetsu Ishida

The Street Without Sun

as Aunt of Matsutaro

Jūdai no yūwaku

A Japanese Tragedy

as Ichizo's wife

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete

as Fusako Kawai

Beauty and the Thief

as Mrs. Inokuma

Children of Hiroshima

Farewell to Spring

Become a Mother, Become a Woman

限りなき情熱

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

Learn from Experience, Part Two