Tanie Kitabayashi
Acting
Born May 21, 1911 · 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.
Films (150)
Resurrection
2003
Letter from the Mountain
2002
Rainbow Kids
1991
Rikyu
1989
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
Yamada Village Waltz
1988
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
The Burmese Harp
1985
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
Haze of Love
1985
Dangerous Women
1985
White Snake Enchantment
1983
Our Teacher
1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
Amagi Pass
1983
Suspicion
1982
Station
1981
Call from Darkness
1981
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
1980
Writhing Tongue
1980
Gassan
1979
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979
Nomugi Pass
1979
Never Give Up
1978
The Incident
1978
Proof of the Man
1977
The Wild Daisy
1977
The Possessed
1976
The Sea of Eden
1976
Kobayashi Takiji
1974
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
1972
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
1972
My Voiceless Friends
1972
Price of Life
1971
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971
Patience Has An End
1971
A Woman Called En
1971
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
1970
The Little Hero
1970
Oh, My Comrade!
1970
Terror in the Streets
1970
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970
Apart from Life
1970
Heat Wave Island
1969
Thousand Cranes
1969
River Without a Bridge
1969
The Human Bullet
1968
The Final Winner?
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
Dorei kōjō
1968
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967
Song of Love
1967
Journey to the North
1967
Wrath of Daimajin
1966
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
1966
Blood and Sea
1965
A Chain of Islands
1965
Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965
The Start of Life
1965
Gazing at Love and Death
1964
Intentions of Murder
1964
A Story from Echigo
1964
The Long Death
1964
Only on Mondays
1964
Welcome, My Baby
1964
Daybreak Chorus
1963
The Insect Woman
1963
The Third Will
1963
Bad Girl
1963
All My Children
1963
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
Children of Izu
1962
Ashita au hito
1962
Asu no hanayome
1962
The Young and Bad
1962
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
Foundry Town
1962
Dolls floating down the river
1962
Ningen Gari
1962
Nippon no obaachan
1962
Buddha
1961
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961
Enraptured
1961
でかんしょ風来坊
1961
Blind Devotion
1961
Shokei zen'ya
1961
Marriageable Age
1961
Yakuza sensei
1960
The Sun's Burial
1960
Bonchi
1960
The Grave Tells All
1960
My Second Brother
1959
The Human Wall
1959
Odd Obsession
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
Musume no boken
1958
Conflagration
1958
Stakeout
1958
Chance Meeting
1958
Omoni to shounen
1958
But the Flesh is Weak
1957
Hole in One
1957
Actress
1956
Saigo no sentō-ki
1956
Summer Storm
1956
The Shadow of Fear
1956
How Sorrowful
1956
Our Town
1956
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
Darkness at Noon
1956
Jigoku no hatoba
1956
Love is Lost
1956
The Burmese Harp
1956
The Motherless
1955
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
The Dawn of Judo
1955
A Hole of My Own Making
1955
The Heart
1955
The Wolves
1955
The Maid's Kid
1955
Ghost Story of Youth
1955
Sisters
1955
Victory or Defeat
1954
A Billionaire
1954
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
The Street Without Sun
1954
Tomoshibi
1954
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
Before Dawn
1953
A Japanese Tragedy
1953
Yokubo
1953
Miniature
1953
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
1952
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952
Beauty and the Thief
1952
Children of Hiroshima
1952
Farewell to Spring
1952
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
1952
The Bitch
1951
限りなき情熱
1951
男の哀愁
1951
Koibito
1951
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
White Beast
1950
Scandal
1950
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937