Tanie Kitabayashi
Department: Acting
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.
Known For
Musume no boken
1958
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
Never Give Up
1978
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
Rikyu
1989
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
Dolls floating down the river
1962
The Insect Woman
1963
Koibito
1951
Beauty and the Thief
1952
Farewell to Spring
1952
Foundry Town
1962
A Japanese Tragedy
1953
Resurrection
2003
White Beast
1950
Children of Hiroshima
1952
Conflagration
1958
The Human Bullet
1968
Apart from Life
1970
All My Children
1963
Only on Mondays
1964
Letter from the Mountain
2002
Station
1981
The Heart
1955
Hole in One
1957
Blood and Sea
1965
A Billionaire
1954
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970
Writhing Tongue
1980
Gassan
1979
A Woman Called En
1971
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967
The Wild Daisy
1977
Bonchi
1960
Saigo no sentō-ki
1956
Asu no hanayome
1962
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953
Ashita au hito
1962
男の哀愁
1951
The Dawn of Judo
1955
Slave Factory
1968
Kobayashi Takiji
1974
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
Wrath of Daimajin
1966
Journey to the North
1967
限りなき情熱
1951
Heat Wave Island
1969
Scandal
1950
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
1970
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971
The Sun's Burial
1960
River Without a Bridge
1969
White Snake Enchantment
1983
Buddha
1961
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
1972
The Burmese Harp
1985
Rainbow Kids
1991
The Possessed
1976
How Sorrowful
1956
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
1952
Our Town
1956
A Hole of My Own Making
1955
The Little Hero
1970
The Motherless
1955
The Long Death
1964
Before Dawn
1953
Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
Stakeout
1958
Odd Obsession
1959
Call from Darkness
1981
The Human Wall
1959
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
1966
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
Enraptured
1961
The Maid's Kid
1955
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
A Story from Echigo
1964
The Wolves
1955
Patience Has An End
1971
Bad Girl
1963
Amagi Pass
1983
The Street Without Sun
1954
Our Teacher
1983
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952
Welcome, My Baby
1964
The Final Winner?
1968
Suspicion
1982
Blind Devotion
1961
Terror in the Streets
1970
The Sea of Eden
1976
Haze of Love
1985
Darkness at Noon
1956
The Shadow of Fear
1956
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
Love is Lost
1956
Chance Meeting
1958
The Start of Life
1965
But the Flesh is Weak
1957
Oh, My Comrade!
1970
Marriageable Age
1961
The Burmese Harp
1956
Nippon no obaachan
1962
Intentions of Murder
1964
The Bitch
1951
A Chain of Islands
1965
Summer Storm
1956
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
The Young and Bad
1962
Ningen Gari
1962
Nomugi Pass
1979
Gazing at Love and Death
1964
Proof of the Man
1977
Miniature
1953
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
The Third Will
1963
Thousand Cranes
1969
Children of Izu
1962
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
1972
My Voiceless Friends
1972
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
1952
Song of Love
1967
Yokubo
1953
Tomoshibi
1954
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961
Price of Life
1971
Jigoku no hatoba
1956
Actress
1956
Dangerous Women
1985
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
Ghost Story of Youth
1955
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953
Shokei zen'ya
1961
The Grave Tells All
1960
Victory or Defeat
1954
The Incident
1978
Daybreak Chorus
1963
Sisters
1955
Yamada Village Waltz
1988
でかんしょ風来坊
1961
Omoni to shounen
1958
My Second Brother
1959
Yakuza sensei
1960
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
1980
おくさまは18歳
1970
Mayuko hitori
1971