
Tanie Kitabayashi
Known for Acting · 158 credits
- Born
- 1911-05-21
- Died
- 2010-04-27
- Place of birth
- Tokyo, Japan
- Also known as
- Таниэ Китабаяси · 北村谷栄 · 北林 谷栄
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
TV Shows (2)
Movies (156)

My Neighbor Totoro
1988
as Granny (voice)

Scandal
1950
as Yasu Hiruta

Amagi Pass
1983
as Tea house's old woman

White Snake Enchantment
1983
as Tane

Proof of the Man
1977

Odd Obsession
1959
as Hana

The Burmese Harp
1956

The Insect Woman
1963
as Madam

Never Give Up
1978
as Kiyo Matsushita

Children of Hiroshima
1952
as Otoyo

Rikyu
1989
as Mother

Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
as Torah (voice)

The Sands of Kurobe
1968

Intentions of Murder
1964
as Kinu Takahashi

Only on Mondays
1964
as Yuka's mother

Buddha
1961
as Sumi

Love: Starting on a Journey
1985

Wrath of Daimajin
1966
as Old Woman Kane

Yomigaeri
2003
as Saki Naito

The Human Wall
1959

Suspicion
1982
as Harue Shirakawa

A Chain of Islands
1965
as Kikuko Sasaki

My Second Brother
1959

Station
1981
as Masayo Mikami

The Burmese Harp
1985
as Old Woman

Nomugi Pass
1979

Bad Girl
1963

The Shadow of Fear
1956

Asu no hanayome
1962

The Sun's Burial
1960
as Chika

Writhing Tongue
1980
as Akira's mother

The Incident
1978
as Kane Shinozaki

The Human Bullet
1968

A Japanese Tragedy
1953
as Ichizo's wife

Stakeout
1958

Letter from the Mountain
2002
as Oume

Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965
as Hayashida's mother

The Grave Tells All
1960

Call from Darkness
1981
as Sukeno

A Story from Echigo
1964

Actress
1956

River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970

Beyond the Green Hills
1963
as Shiraki, Teacher

My Voiceless Friends
1972

Foundry Town
1962
as Ume

Tora-san's Song of Love
1983

Darkness at Noon
1956
as Satoe Miyazaki

Patience Has An End
1971

The Start of Life
1965
as Tomi Ishiguro

Miniature
1953

Conflagration
1958
as Aki, Goichi's mother

The Three Undelivered Letters
1979

A Billionaire
1954

Beauty and the Thief
1952
as Mrs. Inokuma

Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
The Motherless
1955

The Street Without Sun
1954
as Aunt of Matsutaro

Before Dawn
1953
as Ofuki

Hole in One
1957
as Suga Akabane

Summer Storm
1956
as Mitsu Asai

Dangerous Women
1985
as Mrs. Kinumura

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950

Blind Devotion
1961
as Saoko

The Heart
1955
as Hioki's mother

Ghost Story of Youth
1955
as Nanny at Okumura's

But the Flesh is Weak
1957
as Doctor

Rainbow Kids
1991
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa

Bonchi
1960

The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
as Tetsu Ishida

The Third Will
1963
as Kimie

Thousand Cranes
1969
as Toyo

A Good Man, A Good Day
1961

The Possessed
1976

White Beast
1950

Heat Wave Island
1969

The Wolves
1955

Tomoshibi
1954

The Greatest Challenge of All
1967

Red Bud and White Flower
1962

Gassan
1979
Enraptured
1961

A Hole of My Own Making
1955

Shokei zen'ya
1961

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953

Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
as Kane

Ningen Gari
1962

The Sea of Eden
1976

Terror in the Streets
1970
as Shino

限りなき情熱
1951

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950

Song of Love
1967
as Orin

Marriageable Age
1961

Love is Lost
1956
as Nobuyo

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953
as Ohana

Our Teacher
1983

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
as Grandma Shigeko

Blood and Sea
1965
How Sorrowful
1956

Nippon no obaachan
1962
as Kumi

Chance Meeting
1958
as Tetsu Koyanagi

Welcome, My Baby
1964
as Yuki Nishizaka

Gazing at Love and Death
1964

Farewell to Spring
1952
as Old woman

The Bitch
1951
as Tami

Kobayashi Takiji
1974

The Long Death
1964

Apart from Life
1970
as Matsuko Fukuji

The Wild Daisy
1977
as Tamiko's Grandmother

Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
1972

Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
1972
as Moko's mother

Price of Life
1971
as Tome

Sisters
1955

Koibito
1951
as Mrs. Saeki

Oh, My Comrade!
1970
as Harumi
Haze of Love
1985

Slave Factory
1968

The Young and Bad
1962

Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952
as Fusako Kawai
About 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… With 158 credits spanning from 1937 to 2003, Tanie Kitabayashi has appeared in 156 films and 2 TV shows.
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Most Popular Tanie Kitabayashi Movies
- My Neighbor Totoro (1988) — as Granny (voice)
- Scandal (1950) — as Yasu Hiruta
- Amagi Pass (1983) — as Tea house's old woman
- White Snake Enchantment (1983) — as Tane
- Proof of the Man (1977)
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