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Tanie Kitabayashi
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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.
BODY OF WORK
Tanie Kitabayashi's Filmography
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Yomigaeri
as Saki Naito
Letter from the Mountain
as Oume
Rainbow Kids
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
Rikyu
as Mother
My Neighbor Totoro
as Granny (voice)
Yamada Village Waltz
Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Torah (voice)
The Burmese Harp
as Old Woman
Love: Starting on a Journey
No Poster
Haze of Love
Dangerous Women
as Mrs. Kinumura
White Snake Enchantment
as Tane
Our Teacher
Tora-san's Song of Love
Amagi Pass
as Tea house's old woman
The Legend of Sayo
Suspicion
as Harue Shirakawa
Station
as Masayo Mikami
Call from Darkness
as Sukeno
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
Writhing Tongue
as Akira's mother
Gassan
The Three Undelivered Letters
Nomugi Pass
Never Give Up
as Kiyo Matsushita
The Incident
as Kane Shinozaki
Proof of the Man
The Wild Daisy
as Tamiko's Grandmother
The Possessed
The Sea of Eden
Kobayashi Takiji
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
as Moko's mother
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
My Voiceless Friends
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
as Uma Ōnuma
Price of Life
as Tome
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
Patience Has An End
A Woman Called En
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
as Goze / Narrator (voice)
The Little Hero
Oh, My Comrade!
as Harumi
Terror in the Streets
as Shino
River Without a Bridge Part 2
Apart from Life
as Matsuko Fukuji
Heat Wave Island
Thousand Cranes
as Toyo
River Without a Bridge
The Human Bullet
as Bookstore Owner's Wife
The Final Winner?
The Sands of Kurobe
Slave Factory
The Last Lady
as Tsuru
The Greatest Challenge of All
Song of Love
as Orin
Journey to the North
as Hana Kanai
Wrath of Daimajin
as Old Woman Kane
No Poster
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Trigger Happy Romeo
Blood and Sea
A Chain of Islands
as Kikuko Sasaki
Tale of Japanese Burglars
as Hayashida's mother
The Start of Life
as Tomi Ishiguro
Ane to imôto
as Itoko
Gazing at Love and Death
Intentions of Murder
as Kinu Takahashi
A Story from Echigo
The Long Death
Only on Mondays
as Yuka's mother
Welcome, My Baby
as Yuki Nishizaka
Daybreak Chorus
as Old Woman
The Insect Woman
as Madam
The Third Will
as Kimie
Bad Girl
All My Children
as Fusakichi's mother
Beyond the Green Hills
as Shiraki, Teacher
Children of Izu
Ashita au hito
The Young and Bad
Asu no hanayome
Red Bud and White Flower
Foundry Town
as Ume
Dolls floating down the river
as Fuku
Ningen Gari
Nippon no obaachan
as Kumi
Buddha
as Sumi
A Good Man, A Good Day
No Poster
Enraptured
The Famous Wanderer
No Poster
小父さんありがとう
Blind Devotion
as Saoko
Shokei zen'ya
Marriageable Age
Yakuza sensei
The Sun's Burial
as Chika
Bonchi
The Grave Tells All
A Week in Hawaii
My Second Brother
The Human Wall
Odd Obsession
as Hana
Paper Pigeon
as Yuki Kashiwabara
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as Grandma Shigeko
Musume no boken
Conflagration
as Aki, Goichi's mother
My Son's Revolt
Stakeout
Chance Meeting
as Tetsu Koyanagi
No Poster
Omoni to shounen
But the Flesh is Weak
as Doctor
Hole in One
as Suga Akabane
Actress
Saigo no sentō-ki
Summer Storm
as Mitsu Asai
The Shadow of Fear
No Poster
How Sorrowful
Our Town
as Otaka
Hana no unga
Shiawase wa doko ni
as Kane
Darkness at Noon
as Satoe Miyazaki
Jigoku no hatoba
Love is Lost
as Nobuyo
The Burmese Harp
No Poster
The Motherless
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Youth
A Hole of My Own Making
The Dawn of Judo
The Heart
as Hioki's mother
The Wolves
The Maid's Kid
Inhibited Love
Ghost Story of Youth
as Nanny at Okumura's
Sisters
Dawn Chorus
A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
Victory or Defeat
A Billionaire
The Valley Between Love and Death
as Tetsu Ishida
The Street Without Sun
as Aunt of Matsutaro
Tomoshibi
Shinzōyaburi no oka
Jūdai no yūwaku
Outlaw
Before the Dawn
as Ofuki
A Japanese Tragedy
as Ichizo's wife
Desire
Miniature
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
as Ohana
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
No Poster
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
as Aunt Otora
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
as Fusako Kawai
Beauty and the Thief
as Mrs. Inokuma
Children of Hiroshima
as Otoyo
Farewell to Spring
as Old woman
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
as Hide
The Bitch
as Tami
限りなき情熱
男の哀愁
Koibito
as Mrs. Saeki
The Scarlet Bat
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
White Beast
Scandal
as Yasu Hiruta
Koga Manshion
