Tanie Kitabayashi

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.

Cast

Musume no boken

My Neighbor Totoro

Red Bud and White Flower

Kiyo Matsushita

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

Jūdai no yūwaku

Dolls floating down the river

The Insect Woman

Beauty and the Thief

Farewell to Spring

A Japanese Tragedy

Children of Hiroshima

Aki, Goichi's mother

Apart from Life

The Human Bullet

All My Children

Fusakichi's mother

Only on Mondays

Letter from the Mountain

River Without a Bridge Part 2

Writhing Tongue

A Woman Called En

The Greatest Challenge of All

Tamiko's Grandmother

Saigo no sentō-ki

Asu no hanayome

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land

The Dawn of Judo

Kobayashi Takiji

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

Wrath of Daimajin

Journey to the North

限りなき情熱

Heat Wave Island

Pure Land, Poisoned Sea

Goze / Narrator (voice)

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion

The Sun's Burial

River Without a Bridge

White Snake Enchantment

The Sands of Kurobe

The Golden Bat Shows Up

The Burmese Harp

Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa

Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to

A Hole of My Own Making

The Little Hero

Tale of Japanese Burglars

Hayashida's mother

Beyond the Green Hills

Shiraki, Teacher

Call from Darkness

A Windmill, Tulips and Love

Love: Starting on a Journey

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

Grandma Shigeko

A Story from Echigo

Patience Has An End

Tea house's old woman

The Street Without Sun

Aunt of Matsutaro

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete

Welcome, My Baby

The Final Winner?

Harue Shirakawa

Terror in the Streets

The Sea of Eden

Darkness at Noon

The Shadow of Fear

Twilight of the Cockroaches

The Start of Life

But the Flesh is Weak

Oh, My Comrade!

Marriageable Age

The Burmese Harp

Nippon no obaachan

Intentions of Murder

A Chain of Islands

Learn from Experience, Part Two

The Young and Bad

Gazing at Love and Death

Proof of the Man

Shiawase wa doko ni

Thousand Cranes

Children of Izu

Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte

My Voiceless Friends

The Three Undelivered Letters

Tora-san's Song of Love

Become a Mother, Become a Woman

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

A Good Man, A Good Day

Jigoku no hatoba

Dangerous Women

The Valley Between Love and Death

Ghost Story of Youth

Nanny at Okumura's

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

The Grave Tells All

Victory or Defeat

Daybreak Chorus

Yamada Village Waltz

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