Person
Tanie Kitabayashi
Acting · 1911–2010 · Tokyo, Japan
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
My Neighbor Totoro
Granny (voice)
Mayuko hitori
加野のぶ
おくさまは18歳
Asuka's grandmother
Before Dawn
Ofuki
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970
Summer Storm
Mitsu Asai
Blind Devotion
Saoko
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Moko's mother
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Grandma Shigeko
Beauty and the Thief
Mrs. Inokuma
Filmography
- 2003YomigaeriSaki Naito
- 2002Letter from the MountainOume
- 1991Rainbow KidsMrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
- 1989RikyuMother
- 1988My Neighbor TotoroGranny (voice)
- 1988Yamada Village Waltz
- 1987Twilight of the CockroachesTorah (voice)
- 1985The Burmese HarpOld Woman
- 1985Love: Starting on a Journey
- 1985Haze of Love
- 1985Dangerous WomenMrs. Kinumura
- 1983White Snake EnchantmentTane
- 1983Our Teacher
- 1983Tora-san's Song of Love
- 1983Amagi PassTea house's old woman
- 1982SuspicionHarue Shirakawa
- 1981StationMasayo Mikami
- 1981Call from DarknessSukeno
- 1980Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
- 1980Writhing TongueAkira's mother
- 1979Gassan
- 1979The Three Undelivered Letters
- 1979Nomugi Pass
- 1978Never Give UpKiyo Matsushita
- 1978The IncidentKane Shinozaki
- 1977Proof of the Man
- 1977The Wild DaisyTamiko's Grandmother
- 1976The Possessed
- 1976The Sea of Eden
- 1974Kobayashi Takiji
- 1972Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatteMoko's mother
- 1972Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
- 1972My Voiceless Friends
- 1972Umarekawatta TamegorōUma Ōnuma
- 1971Price of LifeTome
- 1971Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
- 1971Patience Has An End
- 1971A Woman Called En
- 1971Mayuko hitori加野のぶ
- 1970Pure Land, Poisoned SeaGoze / Narrator (voice)
- 1970おくさまは18歳Asuka's grandmother
- 1970The Little Hero
- 1970Oh, My Comrade!Harumi
- 1970Terror in the StreetsShino
- 1970River Without a Bridge Part 2
- 1970Apart from LifeMatsuko Fukuji
- 1969Heat Wave Island
- 1969Thousand CranesToyo
- 1969River Without a Bridge
- 1968The Human BulletBookstore Owner's Wife
- 1968The Final Winner?
- 1968The Sands of Kurobe
- 1968Slave Factory
- 1967The Last LadyTsuru
- 1967The Greatest Challenge of All
- 1967Song of LoveOrin
- 1967Journey to the NorthHana Kanai
- 1966Wrath of DaimajinOld Woman Kane
- 1966A Windmill, Tulips and Love
- 1966She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
- 1965Blood and Sea
- 1965A Chain of IslandsKikuko Sasaki
- 1965Tale of Japanese BurglarsHayashida's mother
- 1965The Start of LifeTomi Ishiguro
- 1964Gazing at Love and Death
- 1964Intentions of MurderKinu Takahashi
- 1964A Story from Echigo
- 1964The Long Death
- 1964Only on MondaysYuka's mother
- 1964Welcome, My BabyYuki Nishizaka
- 1963Daybreak ChorusOld Woman
- 1963The Insect WomanMadam
- 1963The Third WillKimie
- 1963Bad Girl
- 1963All My ChildrenFusakichi's mother
- 1963Beyond the Green HillsShiraki, Teacher
- 1962Children of Izu
- 1962Ashita au hito
- 1962Asu no hanayome
- 1962The Young and Bad
- 1962Red Bud and White Flower
- 1962Foundry TownUme
- 1962Dolls floating down the riverFuku
- 1962Ningen Gari
- 1962Nippon no obaachanKumi
- 1961BuddhaSumi
- 1961A Good Man, A Good Day
- 1961Enraptured
- 1961The Famous Wanderer
- 1961小父さんありがとう
- 1961Blind DevotionSaoko
- 1961Shokei zen'ya
- 1961Marriageable Age
- 1960Yakuza sensei
- 1960The Sun's BurialChika
- 1960Bonchi
- 1960The Grave Tells All
- 1959My Second Brother
- 1959The Human Wall
- 1959Odd ObsessionHana
- 1959Paper PigeonYuki Kashiwabara
- 1959Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in JapanGrandma Shigeko
- 1958Musume no boken
- 1958ConflagrationAki, Goichi's mother
- 1958Stakeout
- 1958Chance MeetingTetsu Koyanagi
- 1958Omoni to shounen
- 1957But the Flesh is WeakDoctor
- 1957Hole in OneSuga Akabane
- 1956Actress
- 1956Saigo no sentō-ki
- 1956Summer StormMitsu Asai
- 1956The Shadow of Fear
- 1956How Sorrowful
- 1956Our TownOtaka
- 1956Hana no unga
- 1956Shiawase wa doko niKane
- 1956Darkness at NoonSatoe Miyazaki
- 1956Jigoku no hatoba
- 1956Love is LostNobuyo
- 1956The Burmese Harp
- 1955The Motherless
- 1955Policeman's Diary, Part 2
- 1955Youth
- 1955The Dawn of Judo
- 1955A Hole of My Own Making
- 1955The HeartHioki's mother
- 1955The Wolves
- 1955The Maid's Kid
- 1955Ghost Story of YouthNanny at Okumura's
- 1955Sisters
- 1955A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
- 1954Victory or Defeat
- 1954A Billionaire
- 1954The Valley Between Love and DeathTetsu Ishida
- 1954The Street Without SunAunt of Matsutaro
- 1954Tomoshibi
- 1953Jūdai no yūwaku
- 1953Before DawnOfuki
- 1953A Japanese TragedyIchizo's wife
- 1953Yokubo
- 1953Miniature
- 1953A Lonely Woman in a Lonely LandOhana
- 1953Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
- 1952Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
- 1952Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha toAunt Otora
- 1952Muntinlupa no yo wa fuketeFusako Kawai
- 1952Beauty and the ThiefMrs. Inokuma
- 1952Children of HiroshimaOtoyo
- 1952Farewell to SpringOld woman
- 1952Become a Mother, Become a WomanHide
- 1951The BitchTami
- 1951限りなき情熱
- 1951男の哀愁
- 1951KoibitoMrs. Saeki
- 1950Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
- 1950Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
- 1950White Beast
- 1950ScandalYasu Hiruta
- 1949Koga Manshion
- 1937Learn from Experience, Part Two
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