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
all 135
Movies 133
Voice 3
TV Shows 2
Saki Naito
Resurrection (2003)
Movie
Oume
Letter from the Mountain (2002)
Movie
Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
Rainbow Kids (1991)
Movie
Mother
Rikyu (1989)
Movie
Granny (voice)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Movie
8.44
Torah (voice)
Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987)
Movie
Old Woman
The Burmese Harp (1985)
Movie
Love: Starting on a Journey (1985)
Movie
Haze of Love (1985)
Movie
Tane
White Snake Enchantment (1983)
Movie
Actress
Our Teacher (1983)
Movie
Tora-san's Song of Love (1983)
Movie
Tea house's old woman
Amagi Pass (1983)
Movie
Harue Shirakawa
Suspicion (1982)
Movie
Masayo Mikami
Station (1981)
Movie
Sukeno
Call from Darkness (1981)
Movie
Akira's mother
Writhing Tongue (1980)
Movie
Gassan (1979)
Movie
The Three Undelivered Letters (1979)
Movie
Nomugi Pass (1979)
Movie
Kiyo Matsushita
Never Give Up (1978)
Movie
Proof of the Man (1977)
Movie
Tamiko's grandmother
The Wild Daisy (1977)
Movie
The Possessed (1976)
Movie
The Sea of Eden (1976)
Movie
Actress
Kobayashi Takiji (1974)
Movie
Moko's mother
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte (1972)
Movie
My Voiceless Friends (1972)
Movie
Actress
Price of Life (1971)
Movie
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion (1971)
Movie
Patience Has An End (1971)
Movie
A Woman Called En (1971)
Movie
Actress
Mayuko hitori (1971)
TV
Goze / Narrator (voice)
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea (1970)
Movie
Asuka's grandmother
おくさまは18歳 (1970)
TV
Actress
The Little Hero (1970)
Movie
Actress
Oh, My Comrade! (1970)
Movie
Shino - Old Woman
Terror in the Streets (1970)
Movie
River Without a Bridge Part 2 (1970)
Movie
Matsuko Fukuji
Apart from Life (1970)
Movie
Heat Wave Island (1969)
Movie
Toyo
Thousand Cranes (1969)
Movie
River Without a Bridge (1969)
Movie
The Human Bullet (1968)
Movie
The Final Winner? (1968)
Movie
Dorei kōjō (1968)
Movie
Greatest Challenge of All (1967)
Movie
Orin
Song of Love (1967)
Movie
Hana Kanai
Journey to the North (1967)
Movie
Old Woman Kane
Wrath of Daimajin (1966)
Movie
3.6
A Windmill, Tulips and Love (1966)
Movie
Actress
Trigger Happy Romeo (1965)
Movie
Blood and Sea (1965)
Movie
Kikuko Sasaki
A Chain of Islands (1965)
Movie
Hayashida's mother
Tale of Japanese Burglars (1965)
Movie
Tomi Ishiguro
The Start of Life (1965)
Movie
Hana Yoshikawa
Gazing at Love and Death (1964)
Movie
Kinu Takahashi
Intentions of Murder (1964)
Movie
Tomekichi's mother
A Story from Echigo (1964)
Movie
The Long Death (1964)
Movie
Yuka's mother
Only on Mondays (1964)
Movie
Yuki Nishizaka
Welcome, My Baby (1964)
Movie
Madam
The Insect Woman (1963)
Movie
Kimie
The Third Will (1963)
Movie
Bad Girl (1963)
Movie
Actress
All My Children (1963)
Movie
Shiraki, Teacher
Beyond the Green Hills (1963)
Movie
Children of Izu (1962)
Movie
Ashita au hito (1962)
Movie
Asu no hanayome (1962)
Movie
The Young and Bad (1962)
Movie
Kane Iwabuchi
Red Bud and White Flower (1962)
Movie
Ume
Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow (1962)
Movie
Fuku
Dolls floating down the river (1962)
Movie
Ningen Gari (1962)
Movie
Kumi
Nippon no obaachan (1962)
Movie
Sumi
Buddha (1961)
Movie
Actress
A Good Man, A Good Day (1961)
Movie
Enraptured (1961)
Movie
Saoko
Blind Devotion (1961)
Movie
Marriageable Age (1961)
Movie
Chika, Batasuke's wife
The Sun's Burial (1960)
Movie
Bonchi (1960)
Movie
The Human Wall (1959)
Movie
Hana
Odd Obsession (1959)
Movie
Shigeko Kawada - their grandmother
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan (1959)
Movie
Musume no boken (1958)
Movie
Aki, Goichi's mother
Conflagration (1958)
Movie
Tetsu Koyanagi
Chance Meeting (1958)
Movie
Stakeout (1958)
Movie
Doctor
The Flesh Is Weak (1957)
Movie
Suga Akabane
Hole in One (1957)
Movie
Actress (1956)
Movie
Saigo no sentō-ki (1956)
Movie
Mitsu Asai
Summer Storm (1956)
Movie
The Shadow of Fear (1956)
Movie
How Sorrowful (1956)
Movie
Otaka
Our Town (1956)
Movie
Kane
Shiawase wa doko ni (1956)
Movie
Satoe Miyazaki
Darkness at Noon (1956)
Movie
Jigoku no hatoba (1956)
Movie
Nobuyo
Love is Lost (1956)
Movie
The Burmese Harp (1956)
Movie
The Motherless (1955)
Movie
Policeman's Diary, Part 2 (1955)
Movie
A Hole of My Own Making (1955)
Movie
The Dawn of Judo (1955)
Movie
Hioki's mother
The Heart (1955)
Movie
The Maid's Kid (1955)
Movie
Shige
Sisters (1955)
Movie
A Billionaire (1954)
Movie
Aunt of Matsutaro
The Street Without Sun (1954)
Movie
Tomoshibi (1954)
Movie
Jūdai no yūwaku (1953)
Movie
Ofuki
Before Dawn (1953)
Movie
Ichizo's wife
A Japanese Tragedy (1953)
Movie
Yokubo (1953)
Movie
Miniature (1953)
Movie
Ohana
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land (1953)
Movie
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu (1952)
Movie
Aunt Otora
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to (1952)
Movie
Actress
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete (1952)
Movie
Mrs. Inokuma
Beauty and the Thief (1952)
Movie
Otoyo
Children of Hiroshima (1952)
Movie
4
Old moman
Farewell to Spring (1952)
Movie
Hide
Become a Mother, Become a Woman (1952)
Movie
Tami
The Bitch (1951)
Movie
限りなき情熱 (1951)
Movie
男の哀愁 (1951)
Movie
Mrs. Saeki
Koibito (1951)
Movie
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom (1950)
Movie
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil (1950)
Movie
White Beast (1950)
Movie
Yasu Hiruta
Scandal (1950)
Movie
3.5
Learn from Experience, Part Two (1937)
Movie
Ratings
Average 4.44
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Information
Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1911-05-21
Deathday2010-04-27 (98 years old)
Birth NameReiko Ando
Birth PlaceTokyo, Japan
CitizenshipsJapan
Also Known As北林谷栄, Таниэ Китабаяси, 北村谷栄
AwardsBlue Ribbon Awards for Best Actress, Medal with Purple Ribbon
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