Tanie Kitabayashi
Acting
- Born:
- 1911-05-21
- Died:
- 2010-04-27
- Place of birth:
- Tokyo, Japan
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
Filmography
Yomigaeri
Letter from the Mountain
Rainbow Kids
Rikyu
My Neighbor Totoro
Yamada Village Waltz
Twilight of the Cockroaches
The Burmese Harp
Love: Starting on a Journey
Haze of Love
Dangerous Women
White Snake Enchantment
Our Teacher
Tora-san's Song of Love
Amagi Pass
The Legend of Sayo
Suspicion
Station
Call from Darkness
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
Writhing Tongue
Gassan
The Three Undelivered Letters
Nomugi Pass
Never Give Up
The Incident
Proof of the Man
The Wild Daisy
The Possessed
The Sea of Eden
Kobayashi Takiji
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
My Voiceless Friends
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
Price of Life
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
Patience Has An End
A Woman Called En
Mayuko hitori
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
おくさまは18歳
The Little Hero
Oh, My Comrade!
Terror in the Streets
River Without a Bridge Part 2
Apart from Life
Heat Wave Island
Thousand Cranes
River Without a Bridge
The Human Bullet
The Final Winner?
The Sands of Kurobe
Slave Factory
The Last Lady
The Greatest Challenge of All
Song of Love
Journey to the North
Wrath of Daimajin
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Trigger Happy Romeo
Blood and Sea
A Chain of Islands
Tale of Japanese Burglars
The Start of Life
Ane to imôto
Gazing at Love and Death
Intentions of Murder
A Story from Echigo
The Long Death
Only on Mondays
Welcome, My Baby
Daybreak Chorus
The Insect Woman
The Third Will
Bad Girl
All My Children
Beyond the Green Hills
Children of Izu
Ashita au hito
Asu no hanayome
The Young and Bad
Red Bud and White Flower
Foundry Town
Dolls floating down the river
Ningen Gari
Nippon no obaachan
Buddha
A Good Man, A Good Day
Enraptured
The Famous Wanderer
小父さんありがとう
Blind Devotion
Shokei zen'ya
Marriageable Age
Yakuza sensei
Genroku onna daimyō
The Sun's Burial
Bonchi
The Grave Tells All
A Week in Hawaii
My Second Brother
The Human Wall
Odd Obsession
Paper Pigeon
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Musume no boken
Conflagration
My Son's Revolt
Stakeout
Chance Meeting
Omoni to shounen
But the Flesh is Weak
Hole in One
Actress
Saigo no sentō-ki
Summer Storm
The Shadow of Fear
How Sorrowful
Our Town
Hana no unga
Shiawase wa doko ni
Darkness at Noon
Jigoku no hatoba
Love is Lost
The Burmese Harp
The Motherless
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Youth
The Dawn of Judo
A Hole of My Own Making
The Heart
The Wolves
The Maid's Kid
Inhibited Love
Ghost Story of Youth
Sisters
Dawn Chorus
A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
Victory or Defeat
A Billionaire
The Valley Between Love and Death
The Street Without Sun
Tomoshibi
Shinzōyaburi no oka
Jūdai no yūwaku
Outlaw
Before the Dawn
A Japanese Tragedy
Desire
Miniature
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Beauty and the Thief
Children of Hiroshima
Farewell to Spring
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
The Bitch
限りなき情熱
男の哀愁
Koibito
The Scarlet Bat
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
White Beast
Scandal
Koga Manshion
Learn from Experience, Part Two