Tanie Kitabayashi
Acting
1911-05-21 · Tokyo, Japan
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
Yomigaeri
2003 · Movie
Letter from the Mountain
2002 · Movie
Rainbow Kids
1991 · Movie
Rikyu
1989 · Movie
My Neighbor Totoro
1988 · Movie
Yamada Village Waltz
1988 · Movie
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987 · Movie
The Burmese Harp
1985 · Movie
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985 · Movie
Haze of Love
1985 · Movie
Dangerous Women
1985 · Movie
White Snake Enchantment
1983 · Movie
Our Teacher
1983 · Movie
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983 · Movie
Amagi Pass
1983 · Movie
The Legend of Sayo
1982 · Movie
Suspicion
1982 · Movie
Station
1981 · Movie
Call from Darkness
1981 · Movie
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
1980 · Movie
Writhing Tongue
1980 · Movie
Gassan
1979 · Movie
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979 · Movie
Nomugi Pass
1979 · Movie
Never Give Up
1978 · Movie
The Incident
1978 · Movie
Proof of the Man
1977 · Movie
The Wild Daisy
1977 · Movie
The Possessed
1976 · Movie
The Sea of Eden
1976 · Movie
Kobayashi Takiji
1974 · Movie
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
1972 · Movie
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
1972 · Movie
My Voiceless Friends
1972 · Movie
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
1972 · Movie
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
Mayuko hitori
1971 · Series
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
1970 · Movie
おくさまは18歳
1970 · Series
The Little Hero
1970 · Movie
Oh, My Comrade!
1970 · Movie
Terror in the Streets
1970 · Movie
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970 · Movie
Apart from Life
1970 · Movie
Heat Wave Island
1969 · Movie
Thousand Cranes
1969 · Movie
River Without a Bridge
1969 · Movie
The Human Bullet
1968 · Movie
The Final Winner?
1968 · Movie
The Sands of Kurobe
1968 · Movie
Slave Factory
1968 · Movie
The Last Lady
1967 · Movie
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967 · Movie
Song of Love
1967 · Movie
Journey to the North
1967 · Movie
Wrath of Daimajin
1966 · Movie
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
1966 · Movie
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1966 · Movie
Blood and Sea
1965 · Movie
A Chain of Islands
1965 · Movie
Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965 · Movie
The Start of Life
1965 · Movie
Ane to imôto
1965 · Movie
Gazing at Love and Death
1964 · Movie
Intentions of Murder
1964 · Movie
A Story from Echigo
1964 · Movie
The Long Death
1964 · Movie
Only on Mondays
1964 · Movie
Welcome, My Baby
1964 · Movie
Daybreak Chorus
1963 · Movie
The Insect Woman
1963 · Movie
The Third Will
1963 · Movie
Bad Girl
1963 · Movie
All My Children
1963 · Movie
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
Red Bud and White Flower
1962 · Movie
Foundry Town
1962 · Movie
Dolls floating down the river
1962 · Movie
Ningen Gari
1962 · Movie
Nippon no obaachan
1962 · Movie
Buddha
1961 · Movie
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961 · Movie
Enraptured
1961 · Movie
The Famous Wanderer
1961 · Movie
小父さんありがとう
1961 · Movie
Blind Devotion
1961 · Movie
Shokei zen'ya
1961 · Movie
Marriageable Age
1961 · Movie
Yakuza sensei
1960 · Movie
The Sun's Burial
1960 · Movie
Bonchi
1960 · Movie
The Grave Tells All
1960 · Movie
My Second Brother
1959 · Movie
The Human Wall
1959 · Movie
Odd Obsession
1959 · Movie
Paper Pigeon
1959 · Movie
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959 · Movie
Musume no boken
1958 · Movie
Conflagration
1958 · Movie
Stakeout
1958 · Movie
Chance Meeting
1958 · Movie
Omoni to shounen
1958 · Movie
But the Flesh is Weak
1957 · Movie
Hole in One
1957 · Movie
Actress
1956 · Movie
Saigo no sentō-ki
1956 · Movie
Summer Storm
1956 · Movie
The Shadow of Fear
1956 · Movie
How Sorrowful
1956 · Movie
Our Town
1956 · Movie
Hana no unga
1956 · Movie
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956 · Movie
Darkness at Noon
1956 · Movie
Jigoku no hatoba
1956 · Movie
Love is Lost
1956 · Movie
The Burmese Harp
1956 · Movie
The Motherless
1955 · Movie
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955 · Movie
Youth
1955 · Movie
A Hole of My Own Making
1955 · Movie
The Dawn of Judo
1955 · Movie
The Heart
1955 · Movie
The Wolves
1955 · Movie
The Maid's Kid
1955 · Movie
Ghost Story of Youth
1955 · Movie
Sisters
1955 · Movie
A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
1955 · Movie
Victory or Defeat
1954 · Movie
A Billionaire
1954 · Movie
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954 · Movie
The Street Without Sun
1954 · Movie
Tomoshibi
1954 · Movie
Shinzōyaburi no oka
1954 · Movie
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953 · Movie
Outlaw
1953 · Movie
Before Dawn
1953 · Movie
A Japanese Tragedy
1953 · Movie
Desire
1953 · Movie
Miniature
1953 · Movie
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953 · Movie
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953 · Movie
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952 · Movie
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
1952 · Movie
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952 · Movie
Beauty and the Thief
1952 · Movie
Children of Hiroshima
1952 · Movie
Farewell to Spring
1952 · Movie
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
1952 · Movie
The Bitch
1951 · Movie
限りなき情熱
1951 · Movie
男の哀愁
1951 · Movie
Koibito
1951 · Movie
The Scarlet Bat
1950 · Movie
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950 · Movie
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950 · Movie
White Beast
1950 · Movie
Scandal
1950 · Movie
Koga Manshion
1949 · Movie
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937 · Movie