Tanie Kitabayashi
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
May 21, 1911 (115 years old)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
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.
Known For
| 2003 | ResurrectionSaki Naito | |
| 2002 | Letter from the MountainOume | |
| 1991 | Rainbow KidsMrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa | |
| 1989 | RikyuMother | |
| 1988 | My Neighbor TotoroGranny (voice) | |
| 1988 | Yamada Village Waltz | |
| 1987 | Twilight of the CockroachesTorah (voice) | |
| 1985 | The Burmese HarpOld Woman | |
| 1985 | Love: Starting on a Journey | |
| 1985 | Haze of Love | |
| 1985 | Dangerous WomenMrs. Kinumura | |
| 1983 | White Snake EnchantmentTane | |
| 1983 | Amagi PassTea house's old woman | |
| 1983 | Our Teacher | |
| 1983 | Tora-san's Song of Love | |
| 1982 | SuspicionHarue Shirakawa | |
| 1981 | StationMasayo Mikami | |
| 1981 | Call from DarknessSukeno | |
| 1980 | Writhing TongueAkira's mother | |
| 1980 | Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul | |
| 1979 | Gassan | |
| 1979 | Nomugi Pass | |
| 1979 | The Three Undelivered Letters | |
| 1978 | Never Give UpKiyo Matsushita | |
| 1978 | The IncidentKane Shinozaki | |
| 1977 | The Wild DaisyTamiko's Grandmother | |
| 1977 | Proof of the Man | |
| 1976 | The Possessed | |
| 1976 | The Sea of Eden | |
| 1974 | Kobayashi Takiji | |
| 1972 | Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here | |
| 1972 | Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatteMoko's mother | |
| 1972 | My Voiceless Friends | |
| 1971 | A Woman Called En | |
| 1971 | Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion | |
| 1971 | Patience Has An End | |
| 1971 | Price of LifeTome | |
| 1971 | Mayuko hitori加野のぶ | |
| 1970 | Apart from LifeMatsuko Fukuji | |
| 1970 | River Without a Bridge Part 2 | |
| 1970 | Pure Land, Poisoned SeaGoze / Narrator (voice) | |
| 1970 | The Little Hero | |
| 1970 | Terror in the StreetsShino | |
| 1970 | Oh, My Comrade!Harumi | |
| 1970 | おくさまは18歳Asuka's grandmother | |
| 1969 | Heat Wave Island | |
| 1969 | River Without a Bridge | |
| 1969 | Thousand CranesToyo | |
| 1968 | The Human Bullet | |
| 1968 | Slave Factory | |
| 1968 | The Sands of Kurobe | |
| 1968 | The Final Winner? | |
| 1967 | The Greatest Challenge of All | |
| 1967 | Journey to the NorthHana Kanai | |
| 1967 | Song of LoveOrin | |
| 1966 | Wrath of DaimajinOld Woman Kane | |
| 1966 | A Windmill, Tulips and Love | |
| 1965 | Blood and Sea | |
| 1965 | Tale of Japanese BurglarsHayashida's mother | |
| 1965 | The Start of LifeTomi Ishiguro | |
| 1965 | A Chain of IslandsKikuko Sasaki | |
| 1964 | Only on MondaysYuka's mother | |
| 1964 | The Long Death | |
| 1964 | A Story from Echigo | |
| 1964 | Welcome, My BabyYuki Nishizaka | |
| 1964 | Intentions of MurderKinu Takahashi | |
| 1964 | Gazing at Love and Death | |
| 1963 | The Insect WomanMadam | |
| 1963 | All My ChildrenFusakichi's mother | |
| 1963 | Beyond the Green HillsShiraki, Teacher | |
| 1963 | Bad Girl | |
| 1963 | The Third WillKimie | |
| 1963 | Daybreak ChorusOld Woman | |
| 1962 | Red Bud and White Flower | |
| 1962 | Dolls floating down the riverFuku | |
| 1962 | Foundry TownUme | |
| 1962 | Asu no hanayome | |
| 1962 | Ashita au hito | |
| 1962 | Nippon no obaachanKumi | |
| 1962 | The Young and Bad | |
| 1962 | Ningen Gari | |
| 1962 | Children of Izu | |
| 1961 | BuddhaSumi | |
| 1961 | Enraptured | |
| 1961 | Blind DevotionSaoko | |
| 1961 | Marriageable Age | |
| 1961 | A Good Man, A Good Day | |
| 1961 | Shokei zen'ya | |
| 1961 | でかんしょ風来坊 | |
| 1960 | Bonchi | |
| 1960 | The Sun's BurialChika | |
| 1960 | The Grave Tells All | |
| 1960 | Yakuza sensei | |
| 1959 | Odd ObsessionHana | |
| 1959 | The Human Wall | |
| 1959 | Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in JapanGrandma Shigeko | |
| 1959 | My Second Brother | |
| 1958 | Musume no boken | |
| 1958 | ConflagrationAki, Goichi's mother | |
| 1958 | Stakeout | |
| 1958 | Chance MeetingTetsu Koyanagi | |
| 1958 | Omoni to shounen | |
| 1957 | Hole in OneSuga Akabane | |
| 1957 | But the Flesh is WeakDoctor | |
| 1956 | Saigo no sentō-ki | |
| 1956 | How Sorrowful | |
| 1956 | Our TownOtaka | |
| 1956 | Darkness at NoonSatoe Miyazaki | |
| 1956 | The Shadow of Fear | |
| 1956 | Love is LostNobuyo | |
| 1956 | The Burmese Harp | |
| 1956 | Summer StormMitsu Asai | |
| 1956 | Shiawase wa doko niKane | |
| 1956 | Jigoku no hatoba | |
| 1956 | Actress | |
| 1955 | The HeartHioki's mother | |
| 1955 | The Dawn of Judo | |
| 1955 | A Hole of My Own Making | |
| 1955 | The Motherless | |
| 1955 | The Maid's Kid | |
| 1955 | The Wolves | |
| 1955 | Policeman's Diary, Part 2 | |
| 1955 | Ghost Story of YouthNanny at Okumura's | |
| 1955 | Sisters | |
| 1954 | A Billionaire | |
| 1954 | The Street Without SunAunt of Matsutaro | |
| 1954 | Tomoshibi | |
| 1954 | The Valley Between Love and DeathTetsu Ishida | |
| 1954 | Victory or Defeat | |
| 1953 | Jūdai no yūwaku | |
| 1953 | A Japanese TragedyIchizo's wife | |
| 1953 | A Lonely Woman in a Lonely LandOhana | |
| 1953 | Before DawnOfuki | |
| 1953 | Miniature | |
| 1953 | Yokubo | |
| 1953 | Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu | |
| 1952 | Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu | |
| 1952 | Beauty and the ThiefMrs. Inokuma | |
| 1952 | Farewell to SpringOld woman | |
| 1952 | Children of HiroshimaOtoyo | |
| 1952 | Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha toAunt Otora | |
| 1952 | Muntinlupa no yo wa fuketeFusako Kawai | |
| 1952 | Become a Mother, Become a WomanHide | |
| 1951 | KoibitoMrs. Saeki | |
| 1951 | 男の哀愁 | |
| 1951 | 限りなき情熱 | |
| 1951 | The BitchTami | |
| 1950 | White Beast | |
| 1950 | Les Miserables I: God and the Devil | |
| 1950 | Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom | |
| 1950 | ScandalYasu Hiruta | |
| 1937 | Learn from Experience, Part Two |