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.
movieYomigaeri
as Saki Naito · 2003 · 6.1
movieLetter from the Mountain
as Oume · 2002 · 8.2
movieRainbow Kids
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa · 1991 · 6.6
movieRikyu
as Mother · 1989 · 7.5
movieMy Neighbor Totoro
as Granny (voice) · 1988 · 8.1
movieYamada Village Waltz
as · 1988 · 10.0
movieTwilight of the Cockroaches
as Torah (voice) · 1987 · 6.2
movieThe Burmese Harp
as Old Woman · 1985 · 5.9
movieLove: Starting on a Journey
as · 1985 · 4.7
movieHaze of Love
as · 1985 · 0.0
movieDangerous Women
as Mrs. Kinumura · 1985 · 0.0
movieWhite Snake Enchantment
as Tane · 1983 · 5.5
movieOur Teacher
as · 1983 · 8.0
movieTora-san's Song of Love
as · 1983 · 8.3
movieAmagi Pass
as Tea house's old woman · 1983 · 6.5
movieSuspicion
as Harue Shirakawa · 1982 · 7.0
movieStation
as Masayo Mikami · 1981 · 6.3
movieCall from Darkness
as Sukeno · 1981 · 6.3
movieKanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
as · 1980 · 0.0
movieWrithing Tongue
as Akira's mother · 1980 · 6.8
movieGassan
as · 1979 · 7.0
movieThe Three Undelivered Letters
as · 1979 · 6.6
movieNomugi Pass
as · 1979 · 7.2
movieNever Give Up
as Kiyo Matsushita · 1978 · 6.2