Cast
Tanie Kitabayashi
Acting
Cast
Tanie Kitabayashi
Known for
Acting
Born
1911-05-21
From
Tokyo, Japan
Died
2010-04-27
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.
My Neighbor Totoro
as Granny (voice)
White Snake Enchantment
as Tane
Scandal
as Yasu Hiruta
Proof of the Man
The Insect Woman
as Madam
Odd Obsession
as Hana
The Burmese Harp
Amagi Pass
as Tea house's old woman
Love: Starting on a Journey
Never Give Up
as Kiyo Matsushita
The Sands of Kurobe
Rikyu
as Mother
Buddha
as Sumi
Only on Mondays
as Yuka's mother
Yomigaeri
as Saki Naito
Children of Hiroshima
as Otoyo
Station
as Masayo Mikami
Wrath of Daimajin
as Old Woman Kane
Intentions of Murder
as Kinu Takahashi
The Human Wall
Actress
The Shadow of Fear
Suspicion
as Harue Shirakawa
My Second Brother
Bad Girl
Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Torah (voice)
The Motherless
Letter from the Mountain
as Oume
A Billionaire
Tale of Japanese Burglars
as Hayashida's mother
The Burmese Harp
as Old Woman
Shiawase wa doko ni
as Kane
Call from Darkness
as Sukeno
Asu no hanayome
Patience Has An End
Nomugi Pass
The Valley Between Love and Death
as Tetsu Ishida
The Possessed
My Voiceless Friends
Darkness at Noon
as Satoe Miyazaki
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as Grandma Shigeko
A Chain of Islands
as Kikuko Sasaki
A Japanese Tragedy
as Ichizo's wife
The Wolves
Foundry Town
as Ume
The Heart
as Hioki's mother
Red Bud and White Flower
Bonchi
Hole in One
as Suga Akabane
Farewell to Spring
as Old woman
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
The Sun's Burial
as Chika
The Human Bullet
A Story from Echigo
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
The Start of Life
as Tomi Ishiguro
Beauty and the Thief
as Mrs. Inokuma
Ghost Story of Youth
as Nanny at Okumura's
Tora-san's Song of Love
Miniature
Beyond the Green Hills
as Shiraki, Teacher
The Three Undelivered Letters
Welcome, My Baby
as Yuki Nishizaka
The Incident
as Kane Shinozaki
Rainbow Kids
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
Blind Devotion
as Saoko
Stakeout
Before Dawn
as Ofuki
River Without a Bridge Part 2
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
The Grave Tells All
Conflagration
as Aki, Goichi's mother
Gassan
Enraptured
The Final Winner?
A Good Man, A Good Day
Writhing Tongue
as Akira's mother
Love is Lost
as Nobuyo
Apart from Life
as Matsuko Fukuji
Nippon no obaachan
as Kumi
The Street Without Sun
as Aunt of Matsutaro
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Slave Factory
Marriageable Age
White Beast
Terror in the Streets
as Shino
Heat Wave Island
Gazing at Love and Death
The Third Will
as Kimie
Summer Storm
as Mitsu Asai
The Greatest Challenge of All
The Bitch
as Tami
A Woman Called En
The Long Death
Kobayashi Takiji
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
as Ohana
Our Teacher
The Wild Daisy
as Tamiko's Grandmother
The Young and Bad
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
as Fusako Kawai
Thousand Cranes
as Toyo
Musume no boken
Chance Meeting
as Tetsu Koyanagi
Dangerous Women
as Mrs. Kinumura
The Sea of Eden
How Sorrowful
Journey to the North
as Hana Kanai
Price of Life
as Tome
But the Flesh is Weak
as Doctor
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
as Moko's mother
Our Town
as Otaka
The Maid's Kid
Yokubo
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
A Hole of My Own Making
Ningen Gari
Dolls floating down the river
as Fuku
Tomoshibi
The Dawn of Judo
Koibito
as Mrs. Saeki
限りなき情熱
Blood and Sea
Learn from Experience, Part Two
男の哀愁
Haze of Love
Children of Izu
Victory or Defeat
All My Children
as Fusakichi's mother
Yamada Village Waltz
Oh, My Comrade!
as Harumi
The Little Hero
Song of Love
as Orin
Saigo no sentō-ki
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
as Aunt Otora
Shokei zen'ya
Sisters
でかんしょ風来坊
River Without a Bridge
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
Jūdai no yūwaku
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
as Hide
Daybreak Chorus
as Old Woman
Ashita au hito
Hana no unga
Jigoku no hatoba
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
as Goze / Narrator (voice)
Yakuza sensei
Umarekawatta Tamegorô
as Uma Ōnuma
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
小父さんありがとう
Omoni to shounen
Youth
Paper Pigeon
as Yuki Kashiwabara