Tanie Kitabayashi
Known for: Acting
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
Film
My Neighbor Totoro
Granny (voice)
1988
Series
Mayuko hitori
加野のぶ
1971
Series
おくさまは18歳
Asuka's grandmother
1970
Film
The Insect Woman
Madam
1963
Film
White Snake Enchantment
Tane
1983
Film
Proof of the Man
1977
Film
Amagi Pass
Tea house's old woman
1983
Film
Scandal
Yasu Hiruta
1950
Film
Summer Storm
Mitsu Asai
1956
Film
Station
Masayo Mikami
1981
Film
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Moko's mother
1972
Film
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Grandma Shigeko
1959
Film
Beauty and the Thief
Mrs. Inokuma
1952
Film
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970
Film
Before Dawn
Ofuki
1953
Film
Rikyu
Mother
1989
Film
The Shadow of Fear
1956
Film
The Burmese Harp
1956
Film
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
Film
Blind Devotion
Saoko
1961
Film
Odd Obsession
Hana
1959
Film
Intentions of Murder
Kinu Takahashi
1964
Film
Buddha
Sumi
1961
Film
The Street Without Sun
Aunt of Matsutaro
1954
Film
Bonchi
1960
Film
The Scarlet Bat
1950
Film
Miniature
1953
Film
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Ohana
1953
Film
A Story from Echigo
1964
Film
Never Give Up
Kiyo Matsushita
1978
Film
Wrath of Daimajin
Old Woman Kane
1966
Film
Letter from the Mountain
Oume
2002
Film
Stakeout
1958
Film
The Sun's Burial
Chika
1960
Film
Conflagration
Aki, Goichi's mother
1958
Film
The Third Will
Kimie
1963
Film
Yomigaeri
Saki Naito
2003
Film
Darkness at Noon
Satoe Miyazaki
1956
Film
Suspicion
Harue Shirakawa
1982
Film
A Japanese Tragedy
Ichizo's wife
1953
Film
The Incident
Kane Shinozaki
1978
Film
Only on Mondays
Yuka's mother
1964
Film
Children of Hiroshima
Otoyo
1952
Film
My Second Brother
1959
Film
Rainbow Kids
Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
1991
Film
Nomugi Pass
1979
Film
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Torah (voice)
1987
Film
The Famous Wanderer
1961
Film
Thousand Cranes
Toyo
1969
Film
The Burmese Harp
Old Woman
1985
Film
Gassan
1979
Film
Yakuza sensei
1960
Film
Gazing at Love and Death
1964
Film
Foundry Town
Ume
1962
Film
Beyond the Green Hills
Shiraki, Teacher
1963
Film
A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
1955
Film
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961
Film
The Human Bullet
Bookstore Owner's Wife
1968
Film
Writhing Tongue
Akira's mother
1980
Film
Bad Girl
1963
Film
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979
Film
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
1980
Film
The Sea of Eden
1976
Film
Dangerous Women
Mrs. Kinumura
1985
Film
Yamada Village Waltz
1988
Film
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
Enraptured
1961
Film
White Beast
1950
Film
Heat Wave Island
1969
Film
The Human Wall
1959
Film
The Grave Tells All
1960
Film
Marriageable Age
1961
Film
The Valley Between Love and Death
Tetsu Ishida
1954
Film
The Legend of Sayo
1982
Film
The Wolves
1955
Film
The Young and Bad
1962
Film
A Woman Called En
1971
Film
The Last Lady
Tsuru
1967
Film
The Long Death
1964
How Sorrowful
1956
Film
The Maid's Kid
1955
Film
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
Film
Call from Darkness
Sukeno
1981
Film
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Hayashida's mother
1965
Film
Sisters
1955
Film
The Heart
Hioki's mother
1955
Film
Ghost Story of Youth
Nanny at Okumura's
1955
Film
Terror in the Streets
Shino
1970
Omoni to shounen
1958
Film
Patience Has An End
1971
The Motherless
1955
Film
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
Film
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
Film
Our Town
Otaka
1956
Film
Love is Lost
Nobuyo
1956
Film
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Fusako Kawai
1952
Film
Ningen Gari
1962
Film
Actress
1956
Film
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
Uma Ōnuma
1972
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
1966
Film
A Chain of Islands
Kikuko Sasaki
1965
Film
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967
Film
The Start of Life
Tomi Ishiguro
1965
Film
Price of Life
Tome
1971
Film
Asu no hanayome
1962
Film
All My Children
Fusakichi's mother
1963
Film
The Final Winner?
1968
Film
Children of Izu
1962
Film
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
Film
Paper Pigeon
Yuki Kashiwabara
1959
Film
Hana no unga
1956
Film
Youth
1955
Film
Shiawase wa doko ni
Kane
1956
Film
My Voiceless Friends
1972
Film
The Wild Daisy
Tamiko's Grandmother
1977
Film
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
Film
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
Film
Koibito
Mrs. Saeki
1951
Film
Nippon no obaachan
Kumi
1962
Film
The Possessed
1976
Film
Our Teacher
1983
Film
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
Film
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1966
小父さんありがとう
1961
Film
Welcome, My Baby
Yuki Nishizaka
1964
Film
Koga Manshion
1949
Film
A Billionaire
1954
Film
A Hole of My Own Making
1955
Film
Slave Factory
1968
Film
Victory or Defeat
1954
Haze of Love
1985
Film
Daybreak Chorus
Old Woman
1963
Film
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953
Film
Hole in One
Suga Akabane
1957
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
Aunt Otora
1952
Film
Journey to the North
Hana Kanai
1967
Film
Chance Meeting
Tetsu Koyanagi
1958
Film
Apart from Life
Matsuko Fukuji
1970
Film
Shokei zen'ya
1961
Film
Song of Love
Orin
1967
Film
But the Flesh is Weak
Doctor
1957
Film
Ashita au hito
1962
Film
Dolls floating down the river
Fuku
1962
Film
The Bitch
Tami
1951
Film
Jigoku no hatoba
1956
Film
Musume no boken
1958
Film
Kobayashi Takiji
1974
Film
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
Film
The Dawn of Judo
1955
Film
限りなき情熱
1951
Film
The Little Hero
1970
Film
Blood and Sea
1965
Film
Tomoshibi
1954
Film
Desire
1953
Film
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
Hide
1952
Film
Oh, My Comrade!
Harumi
1970
Film
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
1972
Film
River Without a Bridge
1969
Film
Farewell to Spring
Old woman
1952
Film
Saigo no sentō-ki
1956
Film
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971
Film
男の哀愁
1951
Film
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
Goze / Narrator (voice)
1970
Film
Ane to imôto
Itoko
1965