Tanie Kitabayashi

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 (152 Appearances)

Resurrection

2003

Letter from the Mountain

2002

Rainbow Kids

1991

Rikyu

1989

My Neighbor Totoro

1988

Yamada Village Waltz

1988

Twilight of the Cockroaches

1987

The Burmese Harp

1985

Love: Starting on a Journey

1985

Haze of Love

1985

Dangerous Women

1985

White Snake Enchantment

1983

Our Teacher

1983

Tora-san's Song of Love

1983

Amagi Pass

1983

Suspicion

1982

Station

1981

Call from Darkness

1981

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

1980

Writhing Tongue

1980

Gassan

1979

The Three Undelivered Letters

1979

Nomugi Pass

1979

Never Give Up

1978

The Incident

1978

Proof of the Man

1977

The Wild Daisy

1977

The Possessed

1976

The Sea of Eden

1976

Kobayashi Takiji

1974

Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte

1972

Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here

1972

My Voiceless Friends

1972

Price of Life

1971

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion

1971

Patience Has An End

1971

A Woman Called En

1971

Mayuko hitori

1971

Pure Land, Poisoned Sea

1970

おくさまは18歳

1970

The Little Hero

1970

Oh, My Comrade!

1970

Terror in the Streets

1970

River Without a Bridge Part 2

1970

Apart from Life

1970

Heat Wave Island

1969

Thousand Cranes

1969

River Without a Bridge

1969

The Human Bullet

1968

The Final Winner?

1968

The Sands of Kurobe

1968

Slave Factory

1968

The Greatest Challenge of All

1967

Song of Love

1967

Journey to the North

1967

Wrath of Daimajin

1966

A Windmill, Tulips and Love

1966

Blood and Sea

1965

A Chain of Islands

1965

Tale of Japanese Burglars

1965

The Start of Life

1965

Gazing at Love and Death

1964

Intentions of Murder

1964

A Story from Echigo

1964

The Long Death

1964

Only on Mondays

1964

Welcome, My Baby

1964

Daybreak Chorus

1963

The Insect Woman

1963

The Third Will

1963

Bad Girl

1963

All My Children

1963

Beyond the Green Hills

1963

Children of Izu

1962

Ashita au hito

1962

Asu no hanayome

1962

The Young and Bad

1962

Red Bud and White Flower

1962

Foundry Town

1962

Dolls floating down the river

1962

Ningen Gari

1962

Nippon no obaachan

1962

Buddha

1961

A Good Man, A Good Day

1961

Enraptured

1961

でかんしょ風来坊

1961

Blind Devotion

1961

Shokei zen'ya

1961

Marriageable Age

1961

Yakuza sensei

1960

The Sun's Burial

1960

Bonchi

1960

The Grave Tells All

1960

My Second Brother

1959

The Human Wall

1959

Odd Obsession

1959

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

1959

Musume no boken

1958

Conflagration

1958

Chance Meeting

1958

Stakeout

1958

Omoni to shounen

1958

But the Flesh is Weak

1957

Hole in One

1957

Actress

1956

Saigo no sentō-ki

1956

Summer Storm

1956

The Shadow of Fear

1956

How Sorrowful

1956

Our Town

1956

Shiawase wa doko ni

1956

Darkness at Noon

1956

Jigoku no hatoba

1956

Love is Lost

1956

The Burmese Harp

1956

The Motherless

1955

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

1955

A Hole of My Own Making

1955

The Dawn of Judo

1955

The Heart

1955

The Wolves

1955

The Maid's Kid

1955

Ghost Story of Youth

1955

Sisters

1955

Victory or Defeat

1954

A Billionaire

1954

The Valley Between Love and Death

1954

The Street Without Sun

1954

Tomoshibi

1954

Jūdai no yūwaku

1953

Before Dawn

1953

A Japanese Tragedy

1953

Yokubo

1953

Miniature

1953

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land

1953

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

1953

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

1952

Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to

1952

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete

1952

Beauty and the Thief

1952

Children of Hiroshima

1952

Farewell to Spring

1952

Become a Mother, Become a Woman

1952

The Bitch

1951

限りなき情熱

1951

男の哀愁

1951

Koibito

1951

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

1950

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

1950

White Beast

1950

Scandal

1950

Learn from Experience, Part Two

1937 Debut
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