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.
Movies
Resurrection
Saki Naito
Letter from the Mountain
Oume
Rainbow Kids
Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
Rikyu
Mother
My Neighbor Totoro
Granny (voice)
Yamada Village Waltz
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Torah (voice)
The Burmese Harp
Old Woman
Love: Starting on a Journey
Haze of Love
Dangerous Women
Mrs. Kinumura
White Snake Enchantment
Tane
Our Teacher
Tora-san's Song of Love
Amagi Pass
Tea house's old woman
Suspicion
Harue Shirakawa
Station
Masayo Mikami
Call from Darkness
Sukeno
Writhing Tongue
Akira's mother
Gassan
The Three Undelivered Letters
Nomugi Pass
Never Give Up
Kiyo Matsushita
The Incident
Kane Shinozaki
Proof of the Man
The Wild Daisy
Tamiko's Grandmother
The Possessed
The Sea of Eden
Kobayashi Takiji
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Moko's mother
The Golden Bat Shows Up
My Voiceless Friends
Price of Life
Tome
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
Patience Has An End
A Woman Called En
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
Goze / Narrator (voice)
The Little Hero
Oh, My Comrade!
Harumi
Terror in the Streets
Shino
River Without a Bridge Part 2
Apart from Life
Matsuko Fukuji
Heat Wave Island
Thousand Cranes
Toyo
River Without a Bridge
The Human Bullet
The Final Winner?
The Sands of Kurobe
Dorei kōjō
The Greatest Challenge of All
Song of Love
Orin
Journey to the North
Hana Kanai
Wrath of Daimajin
Old Woman Kane
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
Blood and Sea
A Chain of Islands
Kikuko Sasaki
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Hayashida's mother
The Start of Life
Tomi Ishiguro
Gazing at Love and Death
Intentions of Murder
Kinu Takahashi
A Story from Echigo
The Long Death
Only on Mondays
Yuka's mother
Welcome, My Baby
Yuki Nishizaka
Daybreak Chorus
Old Woman
The Insect Woman
Madam
The Third Will
Kimie
Bad Girl
All My Children
Fusakichi's mother
Beyond the Green Hills
Shiraki, Teacher
Children of Izu
Ashita au hito
Asu no hanayome
The Young and Bad
Red Bud and White Flower
Foundry Town
Ume
Dolls floating down the river
Fuku
Ningen Gari
Nippon no obaachan
Kumi
Buddha
Sumi
A Good Man, A Good Day
Enraptured
でかんしょ風来坊
Blind Devotion
Saoko
Shokei zen'ya
Marriageable Age
The Sun's Burial
Chika
Bonchi
The Grave Tells All
The Human Wall
Odd Obsession
Hana
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Grandma Shigeko
Musume no boken
Conflagration
Aki, Goichi's mother
Stakeout
Chance Meeting
Tetsu Koyanagi
But the Flesh is Weak
Doctor
Hole in One
Suga Akabane
Actress
Saigo no sentō-ki
Summer Storm
Mitsu Asai
The Shadow of Fear
How Sorrowful
Our Town
Otaka
Shiawase wa doko ni
Kane
Darkness at Noon
Satoe Miyazaki
Jigoku no hatoba
Love is Lost
Nobuyo
The Burmese Harp
The Motherless
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
The Dawn of Judo
A Hole of My Own Making
The Heart
Hioki's mother
The Wolves
The Maid's Kid
Ghost Story of Youth
Nanny at Okumura's
Sisters
Victory or Defeat
A Billionaire
The Valley Between Love and Death
Tetsu Ishida
The Street Without Sun
Aunt of Matsutaro
Tomoshibi
Jūdai no yūwaku
Before Dawn
Ofuki
A Japanese Tragedy
Ichizo's wife
Yokubo
Miniature
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Ohana
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
Aunt Otora
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Fusako Kawai
Beauty and the Thief
Mrs. Inokuma
Children of Hiroshima
Otoyo
Farewell to Spring
Old woman
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
Hide
The Bitch
Tami
限りなき情熱
男の哀愁
Koibito
Mrs. Saeki
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
White Beast
Scandal
Yasu Hiruta
Learn from Experience, Part Two
