Tanie Kitabayashi
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.
Filmography
Buddha
1961 · 10.0
Before the Dawn
1953 · 10.0
Ghost Story of Youth
1955 · 10.0
Chance Meeting
1958 · 10.0
Oh, My Comrade!
1970 · 10.0
Yamada Village Waltz
1988 · 10.0
Beauty and the Thief
1952 · 9.0
My Voiceless Friends
1972 · 9.0
Blind Devotion
1961 · 9.0
Slave Factory
1968 · 9.0
The Long Death
1964 · 9.0
Desire
1953 · 9.0
The Motherless
1955 · 9.0
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956 · 9.0
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950 · 9.0
The Little Hero
1970 · 9.0
The Wild Daisy
1977 · 9.0
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983 · 8.3
The Maid's Kid
1955 · 8.3
Letter from the Mountain
2002 · 8.2
Thousand Cranes
1969 · 8.2
My Neighbor Totoro
1988 · 8.1
Kobayashi Takiji
1974 · 8.0
Actress
1956 · 8.0
The Sea of Eden
1976 · 8.0
A Hole of My Own Making
1955 · 8.0
Hole in One
1957 · 8.0
Our Teacher
1983 · 8.0
Love is Lost
1956 · 8.0
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954 · 8.0
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
1972 · 8.0
The Final Winner?
1968 · 8.0
The Bitch
1951 · 8.0
The Burmese Harp
1956 · 7.9
Proof of the Man
1977 · 7.8
Foundry Town
1962 · 7.8
Miniature
1953 · 7.8
Bonchi
1960 · 7.7
The Third Will
1963 · 7.7
Bad Girl
1963 · 7.6
Rikyu
1989 · 7.5
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955 · 7.5
Trigger Happy Romeo
1965 · 7.5
Terror in the Streets
1970 · 7.5
River Without a Bridge
1969 · 7.5
But the Flesh is Weak
1957 · 7.3
All My Children
1963 · 7.3
The Insect Woman
1963 · 7.2
A Story from Echigo
1964 · 7.2
The Incident
1978 · 7.2
Nomugi Pass
1979 · 7.2
Conflagration
1958 · 7.1
Stakeout
1958 · 7.1
Children of Hiroshima
1952 · 7.1
Intentions of Murder
1964 · 7.1
Gassan
1979 · 7.0
The Sands of Kurobe
1968 · 7.0
Suspicion
1982 · 7.0
Writhing Tongue
1980 · 7.0
Yakuza sensei
1960 · 7.0
The Legend of Sayo
1982 · 7.0
The Street Without Sun
1954 · 7.0
Marriageable Age
1961 · 7.0
The Heart
1955 · 7.0
Gazing at Love and Death
1964 · 7.0
Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965 · 7.0
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953 · 7.0
Beyond the Green Hills
1963 · 7.0
Red Bud and White Flower
1962 · 7.0
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967 · 7.0
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950 · 7.0
The Possessed
1976 · 7.0
Tomoshibi
1954 · 7.0
Sisters
1955 · 7.0
Nippon no obaachan
1962 · 7.0
Scandal
1950 · 6.9
Darkness at Noon
1956 · 6.9
The Wolves
1955 · 6.9
Our Town
1956 · 6.9
A Billionaire
1954 · 6.8
A Chain of Islands
1965 · 6.8
Rainbow Kids
1991 · 6.7
Only on Mondays
1964 · 6.7
Heat Wave Island
1969 · 6.7
My Second Brother
1959 · 6.6
Amagi Pass
1983 · 6.5
The Sun's Burial
1960 · 6.5
Summer Storm
1956 · 6.5
Song of Love
1967 · 6.5
Never Give Up
1978 · 6.4
Wrath of Daimajin
1966 · 6.3
Call from Darkness
1981 · 6.3
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937 · 6.3
Station
1981 · 6.2
Odd Obsession
1959 · 6.2
The Human Wall
1959 · 6.2
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987 · 6.2
Apart from Life
1970 · 6.2
Yomigaeri
2003 · 6.1
The Human Bullet
1968 · 6.0
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979 · 6.0
Koibito
1951 · 6.0
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959 · 5.9
Patience Has An End
1971 · 5.9
A Japanese Tragedy
1953 · 5.8
White Beast
1950 · 5.8
White Snake Enchantment
1983 · 5.6
The Burmese Harp
1985 · 5.6
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985 · 4.7
Mayuko hitori
1971 · 0.0
おくさまは18歳
1970 · 0.0
Adorable Schemers
1961 · 0.0
Genroku onna daimyō
1960 · 0.0
Shinzōyaburi no oka
1954 · 0.0
Inhibited Love
1955 · 0.0
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1966 · 0.0
The Scarlet Bat
1950 · 0.0
My Son's Revolt
1958 · 0.0
Enraptured
1961 · 0.0
Paper Pigeon
1959 · 0.0
Hana no unga
1956 · 0.0
Omoni to shounen
1958 · 0.0
Ane to imôto
1965 · 0.0
The Shadow of Fear
1956 · 0.0
The Last Lady
1967 · 0.0
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
1972 · 0.0
Dawn Chorus
1955 · 0.0
A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
1955 · 0.0
Outlaw
1953 · 0.0
A Woman Called En
1971 · 0.0
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952 · 0.0
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970 · 0.0
The Young and Bad
1962 · 0.0
Haze of Love
1985 · 0.0
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
1980 · 0.0
The Grave Tells All
1960 · 0.0
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953 · 0.0
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
1972 · 0.0
How Sorrowful
1956 · 0.0
Ningen Gari
1962 · 0.0
Youth
1955 · 0.0
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961 · 0.0
Asu no hanayome
1962 · 0.0
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
1952 · 0.0
Musume no boken
1958 · 0.0
限りなき情熱
1951 · 0.0
Ashita au hito
1962 · 0.0
Koga Manshion
1949 · 0.0
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952 · 0.0
The Start of Life
1965 · 0.0
Children of Izu
1962 · 0.0
小父さんありがとう
1961 · 0.0
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
1966 · 0.0
The Famous Wanderer
1961 · 0.0
Farewell to Spring
1952 · 0.0
Shokei zen'ya
1961 · 0.0
Welcome, My Baby
1964 · 0.0
The Dawn of Judo
1955 · 0.0
Dangerous Women
1985 · 0.0
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953 · 0.0
Saigo no sentō-ki
1956 · 0.0
Victory or Defeat
1954 · 0.0
Price of Life
1971 · 0.0
Blood and Sea
1965 · 0.0
Dolls floating down the river
1962 · 0.0
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971 · 0.0
Daybreak Chorus
1963 · 0.0
Journey to the North
1967 · 0.0
Jigoku no hatoba
1956 · 0.0
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
1952 · 0.0
男の哀愁
1951 · 0.0
A Week in Hawaii
1959 · 0.0
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
1970 · 0.0
Yoru wa ijiwaru
1961 · 0.0