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.

Known For

My Neighbor Totoro

Mayuko hitori

おくさまは18歳

White Snake Enchantment

The Insect Woman

Amagi Pass

Odd Obsession

Intentions of Murder

All Movies (157)

• Yomigaeri2003 · as Saki Naito
• Letter from the Mountain2002 · as Oume
• Rainbow Kids1991 · as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
• Rikyu1989 · as Mother
• My Neighbor Totoro1988 · as Granny (voice)
• Yamada Village Waltz1988
• Twilight of the Cockroaches1987 · as Torah (voice)
• The Burmese Harp1985 · as Old Woman
• Love: Starting on a Journey1985
• Haze of Love1985
• Dangerous Women1985 · as Mrs. Kinumura
• White Snake Enchantment1983 · as Tane
• Our Teacher1983
• Tora-san's Song of Love1983
• Amagi Pass1983 · as Tea house's old woman
• Suspicion1982 · as Harue Shirakawa
• Station1981 · as Masayo Mikami
• Call from Darkness1981 · as Sukeno
• Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul1980
• Writhing Tongue1980 · as Akira's mother
• Gassan1979
• The Three Undelivered Letters1979
• Nomugi Pass1979
• Never Give Up1978 · as Kiyo Matsushita
• The Incident1978 · as Kane Shinozaki
• Proof of the Man1977
• The Wild Daisy1977 · as Tamiko's Grandmother
• The Possessed1976
• The Sea of Eden1976
• Kobayashi Takiji1974
• Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte1972 · as Moko's mother
• Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here1972
• My Voiceless Friends1972
• Umarekawatta Tamegorō1972 · as Uma Ōnuma
• Price of Life1971 · as Tome
• Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion1971
• Patience Has An End1971
• A Woman Called En1971
• Pure Land, Poisoned Sea1970 · as Goze / Narrator (voice)
• The Little Hero1970
• Oh, My Comrade!1970 · as Harumi
• Terror in the Streets1970 · as Shino
• River Without a Bridge Part 21970
• Apart from Life1970 · as Matsuko Fukuji
• Heat Wave Island1969
• Thousand Cranes1969 · as Toyo
• River Without a Bridge1969
• The Human Bullet1968
• The Final Winner?1968
• The Sands of Kurobe1968
• Slave Factory1968
• The Last Lady1967 · as Tsuru
• The Greatest Challenge of All1967
• Song of Love1967 · as Orin
• Journey to the North1967 · as Hana Kanai
• Wrath of Daimajin1966 · as Old Woman Kane
• A Windmill, Tulips and Love1966
• She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum1966
• Blood and Sea1965
• A Chain of Islands1965 · as Kikuko Sasaki
• Tale of Japanese Burglars1965 · as Hayashida's mother
• The Start of Life1965 · as Tomi Ishiguro
• Gazing at Love and Death1964
• Intentions of Murder1964 · as Kinu Takahashi
• A Story from Echigo1964
• The Long Death1964
• Only on Mondays1964 · as Yuka's mother
• Welcome, My Baby1964 · as Yuki Nishizaka
• Daybreak Chorus1963 · as Old Woman
• The Insect Woman1963 · as Madam
• The Third Will1963 · as Kimie
• Bad Girl1963
• All My Children1963 · as Fusakichi's mother
• Beyond the Green Hills1963 · as Shiraki, Teacher
• Children of Izu1962
• Ashita au hito1962
• Asu no hanayome1962
• The Young and Bad1962
• Red Bud and White Flower1962
• Foundry Town1962 · as Ume
• Dolls floating down the river1962 · as Fuku
• Ningen Gari1962
• Nippon no obaachan1962 · as Kumi
• Buddha1961 · as Sumi
• A Good Man, A Good Day1961
• Enraptured1961
• でかんしょ風来坊1961
• 小父さんありがとう1961
• Blind Devotion1961 · as Saoko
• Shokei zen'ya1961
• Marriageable Age1961
• Yakuza sensei1960
• The Sun's Burial1960 · as Chika
• Bonchi1960
• The Grave Tells All1960
• My Second Brother1959
• The Human Wall1959
• Odd Obsession1959 · as Hana
• Paper Pigeon1959 · as Yuki Kashiwabara
• Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan1959 · as Grandma Shigeko
• Musume no boken1958
• Conflagration1958 · as Aki, Goichi's mother
• Stakeout1958
• Chance Meeting1958 · as Tetsu Koyanagi
• Omoni to shounen1958
• But the Flesh is Weak1957 · as Doctor
• Hole in One1957 · as Suga Akabane
• Actress1956
• Saigo no sentō-ki1956
• Summer Storm1956 · as Mitsu Asai
• The Shadow of Fear1956
• How Sorrowful1956
• Our Town1956 · as Otaka
• Hana no unga1956
• Shiawase wa doko ni1956 · as Kane
• Darkness at Noon1956 · as Satoe Miyazaki
• Jigoku no hatoba1956
• Love is Lost1956 · as Nobuyo
• The Burmese Harp1956
• The Motherless1955
• Policeman's Diary, Part 21955
• Youth1955
• The Dawn of Judo1955
• A Hole of My Own Making1955
• The Heart1955 · as Hioki's mother
• The Wolves1955
• The Maid's Kid1955
• Ghost Story of Youth1955 · as Nanny at Okumura's
• Sisters1955
• Victory or Defeat1954
• A Billionaire1954
• The Valley Between Love and Death1954 · as Tetsu Ishida
• The Street Without Sun1954 · as Aunt of Matsutaro
• Tomoshibi1954
• Jūdai no yūwaku1953
• Before Dawn1953 · as Ofuki
• A Japanese Tragedy1953 · as Ichizo's wife
• Yokubo1953
• Miniature1953
• A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land1953 · as Ohana
• Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu1953
• Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu1952
• Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to1952 · as Aunt Otora
• Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete1952 · as Fusako Kawai
• Beauty and the Thief1952 · as Mrs. Inokuma
• Children of Hiroshima1952 · as Otoyo
• Farewell to Spring1952 · as Old woman
• Become a Mother, Become a Woman1952 · as Hide
• The Bitch1951 · as Tami
• 限りなき情熱1951
• 男の哀愁1951
• Koibito1951 · as Mrs. Saeki
• Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom1950
• Les Miserables I: God and the Devil1950
• White Beast1950
• Scandal1950 · as Yasu Hiruta
• Learn from Experience, Part Two1937

All TV Shows (2)

• Mayuko hitori1971 · as 加野のぶ
• おくさまは18歳1970 · as Asuka's grandmother