About

Known credits:
140
Birthday:
1911-05-21
Place of birth:
Tokyo, Japan
Website:
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Tanie Kitabayashi

Overview

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

Acting
2003 Resurrection Actor Saki Naito 58
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2002 Letter from the Mountain Actor Oume 59
Average
1991 Rainbow Kids Actor Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa 58
Average
1989 Rikyu Actor Mother 59
Average
1988 My Neighbor Totoro Actor Granny (voice) 79
Good
1987 Twilight of the Cockroaches Actor Torah (voice) 58
Average
1985 The Burmese Harp Actor Old Woman 58
Average
1985 Love: Starting on a Journey Actor 58
Average
1985 Haze of Love Actor N/A
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1985 Dangerous Women Actor Mrs. Kinumura N/A
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1983 White Snake Enchantment Actor Tane 59
Average
1983 Our Teacher Actor N/A
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1983 Tora-san's Song of Love Actor 59
Average
1983 Amagi Pass Actor Tea house's old woman 59
Average
1982 Suspicion Actor Harue Shirakawa 59
Average
1981 Station Actor Masayo Mikami 58
Average
1981 Call from Darkness Actor Sukeno 58
Average
1980 Writhing Tongue Actor Akira's mother 59
Average
1979 Gassan Actor N/A
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1979 The Three Undelivered Letters Actor 58
Average
1979 Nomugi Pass Actor 58
Average
1978 Never Give Up Actor Kiyo Matsushita 58
Average
1977 Proof of the Man Actor 59
Average
1977 The Wild Daisy Actor Tamiko's Grandmother N/A
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1976 The Possessed Actor N/A
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1976 The Sea of Eden Actor N/A
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1974 Kobayashi Takiji Actor N/A
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1972 Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte Actor Moko's mother N/A
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1972 The Golden Bat Shows Up Actor N/A
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1972 My Voiceless Friends Actor N/A
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1971 Price of Life Actor Tome N/A
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1971 Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion Actor N/A
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1971 Patience Has An End Actor 58
Average
1971 A Woman Called En Actor N/A
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1971 Mayuko hitori Actor 加野のぶ N/A
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1970 Pure Land, Poisoned Sea Actor Goze / Narrator (voice) N/A
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1970 おくさまは18歳 Actor Asuka's grandmother N/A
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1970 The Little Hero Actor N/A
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1970 Oh, My Comrade! Actor Harumi N/A
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1970 Terror in the Streets Actor Shino 58
Average
1970 River Without a Bridge Part 2 Actor N/A
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1970 Apart from Life Actor Matsuko Fukuji 59
Average
1969 Heat Wave Island Actor 59
Average
1969 Thousand Cranes Actor Toyo 59
Average
1969 River Without a Bridge Actor 59
Average
1968 The Human Bullet Actor 59
Average
1968 The Final Winner? Actor N/A
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1968 The Sands of Kurobe Actor 58
Average
1968 Dorei kōjō Actor N/A
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1967 The Greatest Challenge of All Actor N/A
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1967 Song of Love Actor Orin 59
Average
1967 Journey to the North Actor Hana Kanai N/A
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1966 Wrath of Daimajin Actor Old Woman Kane 59
Average
1966 A Windmill, Tulips and Love Actor N/A
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1965 Blood and Sea Actor N/A
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1965 A Chain of Islands Actor Kikuko Sasaki 59
Average
1965 Tale of Japanese Burglars Actor Hayashida's mother 59
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1965 The Start of Life Actor Tomi Ishiguro N/A
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1964 Gazing at Love and Death Actor 58
Average
1964 Intentions of Murder Actor Kinu Takahashi 59
Average
1964 A Story from Echigo Actor 59
Average
1964 The Long Death Actor N/A
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1964 Only on Mondays Actor Yuka's mother 58
Average
1964 Welcome, My Baby Actor Yuki Nishizaka N/A
N/A
1963 The Insect Woman Actor Madam 60
Fair
1963 The Third Will Actor Kimie 59
Average
1963 Bad Girl Actor 59
Average
1963 All My Children Actor Fusakichi's mother 58
Average
1963 Beyond the Green Hills Actor Shiraki, Teacher N/A
N/A
1962 Children of Izu Actor N/A
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1962 Ashita au hito Actor N/A
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1962 Asu no hanayome Actor N/A
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1962 The Young and Bad Actor N/A
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1962 Red Bud and White Flower Actor N/A
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1962 Foundry Town Actor Ume 59
Average
1962 Dolls floating down the river Actor Fuku N/A
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1962 Ningen Gari Actor N/A
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1962 Nippon no obaachan Actor Kumi N/A
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1961 Buddha Actor Sumi N/A
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1961 A Good Man, A Good Day Actor N/A
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1961 Enraptured Actor N/A
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1961 Blind Devotion Actor Saoko N/A
N/A
1961 Marriageable Age Actor N/A
N/A
1960 The Sun's Burial Actor Chika, Batasuke's wife 59
Average
1960 Bonchi Actor 59
Average
1959 The Human Wall Actor 59
Average
1959 Odd Obsession Actor Hana 59
Average
1959 Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan Actor Grandma Shigeko 59
Average
1958 Musume no boken Actor N/A
N/A
1958 Conflagration Actor Aki, Goichi's mother 59
Average
1958 Chance Meeting Actor Tetsu Koyanagi N/A
N/A
1958 Stakeout Actor 59
Average
1957 The Flesh Is Weak Actor Doctor 58
Average
1957 Hole in One Actor Suga Akabane 58
Average
1956 Actress Actor N/A
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1956 Saigo no sentō-ki Actor N/A
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1956 Summer Storm Actor Mitsu Asai 59
Average
1956 The Shadow of Fear Actor N/A
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1956 How Sorrowful Actor N/A
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1956 Our Town Actor Otaka 59
Average
1956 Shiawase wa doko ni Actor Kane N/A
N/A
1956 Darkness at Noon Actor Satoe Miyazaki 59
Average
1956 Jigoku no hatoba Actor N/A
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1956 Love is Lost Actor Nobuyo 59
Average
1956 The Burmese Harp Actor 63
Fair
1955 The Motherless Actor N/A
N/A
1955 Policeman's Diary, Part 2 Actor 59
Average
1955 A Hole of My Own Making Actor 58
Average
1955 The Dawn of Judo Actor N/A
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1955 The Heart Actor Hioki's mother 59
Average
1955 The Wolves Actor 59
Average
1955 The Maid's Kid Actor N/A
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1955 Ghost Story of Youth Actor Nanny at Okumura's N/A
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1954 A Billionaire Actor 58
Average
1954 The Valley Between Love and Death Actor Tetsu Ishida N/A
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1954 The Street Without Sun Actor Aunt of Matsutaro N/A
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1954 Tomoshibi Actor N/A
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1953 Jūdai no yūwaku Actor N/A
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1953 Before Dawn Actor Ofuki N/A
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1953 A Japanese Tragedy Actor Ichizo's wife 58
Average
1953 Yokubo Actor N/A
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1953 Miniature Actor 59
Average
1953 A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land Actor Ohana N/A
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1953 Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu Actor N/A
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1952 Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu Actor N/A
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1952 Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to Actor Aunt Otora N/A
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1952 Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete Actor Fusako Kawai N/A
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1952 Beauty and the Thief Actor Mrs. Inokuma N/A
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1952 Children of Hiroshima Actor Otoyo 59
Average
1952 Farewell to Spring Actor Old woman N/A
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1952 Become a Mother, Become a Woman Actor Hide N/A
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1951 The Bitch Actor Tami N/A
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1951 限りなき情熱 Actor N/A
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1951 男の哀愁 Actor N/A
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1951 Koibito Actor Mrs. Saeki 58
Average
1950 Re mizeraburu: kami to jiyu no hata Actor N/A
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1950 Re mizeraburu: kami to akuma Actor N/A
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1950 White Beast Actor 58
Average
1950 Scandal Actor Yasu Hiruta 60
Fair
1937 Learn from Experience, Part Two Actor 59
Average