Tanie Kitabayashi

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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

Granny (voice)

The Burmese Harp

Self

Scandal

Yasu Hiruta

The Insect Woman

Madam

Intentions of Murder

Kinu Takahashi

Children of Hiroshima

Otoyo

Wrath of Daimajin

Old Woman Kane

Odd Obsession

Hana

Full Filmography

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

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