People
Tanie Kitabayashi
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.
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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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 |