People

Tanie Kitabayashi

Tanie Kitabayashi
  • Name: Tanie Kitabayashi
  • Birthday: 1911-05-21
  • Also known as: Таниэ Китабаяси,北村谷栄,北林 谷栄
  • Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
  • Popularity: 3.649
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.

Images:

Movies:

Title Release date
Resurrection   as  Saki Naito 2003-01-18
Letter from the Mountain   as  Oume 2002-10-05
Rainbow Kids   as  Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa 1991-01-15
Rikyu   as  Mother 1989-09-15
My Neighbor Totoro   as  Granny (voice) 1988-04-16
Twilight of the Cockroaches   as  Torah (voice) 1987-11-21
The Burmese Harp   as  Old Woman 1985-07-20
Love: Starting on a Journey 1985-01-26
Haze of Love 1985-01-03
Dangerous Women   as  Mrs. Kinumura 1985-01-01
White Snake Enchantment   as  Tane 1983-11-12
Our Teacher 1983-08-24
Tora-san's Song of Love 1983-08-06
Amagi Pass   as  Tea house's old woman 1983-02-19
Suspicion   as  Harue Shirakawa 1982-09-11
Station   as  Masayo Mikami 1981-11-07
Call from Darkness   as  Sukeno 1981-09-26
Writhing Tongue   as  Akira's mother 1980-11-22
Gassan 1979-10-20
The Three Undelivered Letters 1979-10-06
Nomugi Pass 1979-06-30
Never Give Up   as  Kiyo Matsushita 1978-10-07
Proof of the Man 1977-10-08
The Wild Daisy   as  Tamiko's Grandmother 1977-07-09
The Possessed 1976-10-16
The Sea of Eden 1976-04-24
Kobayashi Takiji 1974-02-20
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte   as  Moko's mother 1972-06-12
The Golden Bat Shows Up 1972-05-13
My Voiceless Friends 1972-04-29
Price of Life   as  Tome 1971-07-24
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion 1971-07-18
Patience Has An End 1971-06-25
A Woman Called En 1971-05-29
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea   as  Goze / Narrator (voice) 1970-11-14
The Little Hero 1970-09-23
Oh, My Comrade!   as  Harumi 1970-09-19
Terror in the Streets   as  Shino 1970-07-04
River Without a Bridge Part 2 1970-04-25
Apart from Life   as  Matsuko Fukuji 1970-01-30
Heat Wave Island 1969-10-29
Thousand Cranes   as  Toyo 1969-04-19
River Without a Bridge 1969-02-01
The Human Bullet 1968-10-22
The Final Winner? 1968-08-28
The Sands of Kurobe 1968-03-01
Dorei kōjō 1968-01-25
The Greatest Challenge of All 1967-08-05
Song of Love   as  Orin 1967-04-29
Journey to the North   as  Hana Kanai 1967-01-03
Wrath of Daimajin   as  Old Woman Kane 1966-12-10
A Windmill, Tulips and Love 1966-06-25
Blood and Sea 1965-10-01
A Chain of Islands   as  Kikuko Sasaki 1965-05-26
Tale of Japanese Burglars   as  Hayashida's mother 1965-05-01
The Start of Life   as  Tomi Ishiguro 1965-04-29
Gazing at Love and Death 1964-09-19
Intentions of Murder   as  Kinu Takahashi 1964-06-28
A Story from Echigo 1964-05-09
The Long Death 1964-04-12
Only on Mondays   as  Yuka's mother 1964-03-04
Welcome, My Baby   as  Yuki Nishizaka 1964-02-23
The Insect Woman   as  Madam 1963-11-16
The Third Will   as  Kimie 1963-03-31
Bad Girl 1963-03-16
All My Children   as  Fusakichi's mother 1963-02-01
Beyond the Green Hills   as  Shiraki, Teacher 1963-01-03
Children of Izu 1962-11-21
Ashita au hito 1962-09-16
The Young and Bad 1962-09-09
Asu no hanayome 1962-09-09
Red Bud and White Flower 1962-06-10
Foundry Town   as  Ume 1962-04-08
Dolls floating down the river   as  Fuku 1962-03-03
Ningen Gari 1962-01-23
Nippon no obaachan   as  Kumi 1962-01-03
Buddha   as  Sumi 1961-10-31
A Good Man, A Good Day 1961-08-13
Enraptured 1961-04-18
Blind Devotion   as  Saoko 1961-03-08
Marriageable Age 1961-01-14
The Sun's Burial   as  Chika, Batasuke's wife 1960-08-09
Bonchi 1960-04-14
The Human Wall 1959-10-18
Odd Obsession   as  Hana 1959-06-23
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan   as  Grandma Shigeko 1959-03-29
Musume no boken 1958-11-01
Conflagration   as  Aki, Goichi's mother 1958-09-22
Stakeout 1958-01-15
Chance Meeting   as  Tetsu Koyanagi 1958-01-15
The Flesh Is Weak   as  Doctor 1957-10-29
Hole in One   as  Suga Akabane 1957-09-15
Actress 1956-11-27
Saigo no sentō-ki 1956-10-17
Summer Storm   as  Mitsu Asai 1956-10-01
The Shadow of Fear 1956-09-11
How Sorrowful 1956-09-07
Our Town   as  Otaka 1956-08-28
Shiawase wa doko ni   as  Kane 1956-07-19
Darkness at Noon   as  Satoe Miyazaki 1956-03-26
Jigoku no hatoba 1956-03-04
Love is Lost   as  Nobuyo 1956-02-05
The Burmese Harp 1956-01-21
The Motherless 1955-12-04
Policeman's Diary, Part 2 1955-11-16
The Dawn of Judo 1955-09-28
A Hole of My Own Making 1955-09-28
The Heart   as  Hioki's mother 1955-08-31
The Wolves 1955-07-03
The Maid's Kid 1955-06-28
Ghost Story of Youth   as  Nanny at Okumura's 1955-04-19
A Billionaire 1954-11-22
The Valley Between Love and Death   as  Tetsu Ishida 1954-09-21
The Street Without Sun   as  Aunt of Matsutaro 1954-06-24
Tomoshibi 1954-06-22
Jūdai no yūwaku 1953-12-29
Before Dawn   as  Ofuki 1953-10-13
A Japanese Tragedy   as  Ichizo's wife 1953-06-17
Yokubo 1953-05-13
Miniature 1953-04-01
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land   as  Ohana 1953-02-20
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu 1952-11-06
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to   as  Aunt Otora 1952-11-04
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete   as  Fusako Kawai 1952-10-09
Beauty and the Thief   as  Mrs. Inokuma 1952-09-22
Children of Hiroshima   as  Otoyo 1952-08-06
Farewell to Spring   as  Old woman 1952-03-28
Become a Mother, Become a Woman   as  Hide 1952-01-17
The Bitch   as  Tami 1951-08-10
限りなき情熱 1951-06-01
男の哀愁 1951-04-13
Koibito   as  Mrs. Saeki 1951-03-10
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom 1950-11-14
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil 1950-11-03
White Beast 1950-06-03
Scandal   as  Yasu Hiruta 1950-04-26
Learn from Experience, Part Two 1937-12-18