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Tanie Kitabayashi

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

Born: Tokyo, Japan, 1911-05-21

Died: 2010-04-27

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1937	Learn from Experience, Part Two		62
2	1950	Scandal	Yasu Hiruta	69
3	1950	White Beast		60
4	1950	Les Miserables I: God and the Devil		0
5	1950	Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom		0
6	1951	Koibito	Mrs. Saeki	54
7	1951	男の哀愁		0
8	1951	限りなき情熱		0
9	1951	The Bitch	Tami	0
10	1952	Become a Mother, Become a Woman	Hide	0
11	1952	Farewell to Spring	Old woman	0
12	1952	Children of Hiroshima	Otoyo	73
13	1952	Beauty and the Thief	Mrs. Inokuma	0
14	1952	Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete	Fusako Kawai	0
15	1952	Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to	Aunt Otora	0
16	1952	Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu		0
17	1953	Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu		0
18	1953	A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land	Ohana	0
19	1953	Miniature		80
20	1953	Yokubo		0
21	1953	A Japanese Tragedy	Ichizo's wife	56
22	1953	Before Dawn	Ofuki	0
23	1953	Jūdai no yūwaku		0
24	1954	Tomoshibi		0
25	1954	The Street Without Sun	Aunt of Matsutaro	0
26	1954	The Valley Between Love and Death	Tetsu Ishida	0
27	1954	A Billionaire		57
28	1954	Victory or Defeat		0
29	1955	Ghost Story of Youth	Nanny at Okumura's	0
30	1955	The Maid's Kid		70
31	1955	The Wolves		68
32	1955	The Heart	Hioki's mother	68
33	1955	The Dawn of Judo		0
34	1955	A Hole of My Own Making		60
35	1955	Policeman's Diary, Part 2		60
36	1955	The Motherless		0
37	1956	The Burmese Harp		79
38	1956	Love is Lost	Nobuyo	70
39	1956	Jigoku no hatoba		0
40	1956	Darkness at Noon	Satoe Miyazaki	66
41	1956	Shiawase wa doko ni	Kane	0
42	1956	Our Town	Otaka	68
43	1956	How Sorrowful		0
44	1956	The Shadow of Fear		0
45	1956	Summer Storm	Mitsu Asai	60
46	1956	Saigo no sentō-ki		0
47	1956	Actress		0
48	1957	Hole in One	Suga Akabane	60
49	1957	But the Flesh is Weak	Doctor	60
50	1958	Stakeout		69
51	1958	Chance Meeting	Tetsu Koyanagi	0
52	1958	Conflagration	Aki, Goichi's mother	71
53	1958	Musume no boken		0
54	1959	Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan	Grandma Shigeko	57
55	1959	Odd Obsession	Hana	63
56	1959	The Human Wall		50
57	1960	Sexy Sign Suki Suki Suki		0
58	1960	Bonchi		70
59	1960	The Sun's Burial	Chika, Batasuke's wife	65
60	1961	Marriageable Age		0
61	1961	Shokei zen'ya		0
62	1961	Blind Devotion	Saoko	0
63	1961	Enraptured		0
64	1961	A Good Man, A Good Day		0
65	1961	Buddha	Sumi	0
66	1962	Nippon no obaachan	Kumi	0
67	1962	Ningen Gari		0
68	1962	Dolls floating down the river	Fuku	0
69	1962	Foundry Town	Ume	76
70	1962	Red Bud and White Flower		0
71	1962	Asu no hanayome		0
72	1962	The Young and Bad		0
73	1962	Ashita au hito		0
74	1962	Children of Izu		0
75	1963	Beyond the Green Hills	Shiraki, Teacher	0
76	1963	All My Children	Fusakichi's mother	72
77	1963	Bad Girl		78
78	1963	The Third Will	Kimie	80
79	1963	The Insect Woman	Madam	74
80	1964	Welcome, My Baby	Yuki Nishizaka	0
81	1964	Only on Mondays	Yuka's mother	62
82	1964	The Long Death		0
83	1964	A Story from Echigo		72
84	1964	Intentions of Murder	Kinu Takahashi	72
85	1964	Gazing at Love and Death		70
86	1965	The Start of Life	Tomi Ishiguro	0
87	1965	Tale of Japanese Burglars	Hayashida's mother	68
88	1965	A Chain of Islands	Kikuko Sasaki	64
89	1965	Blood and Sea		0
90	1966	A Windmill, Tulips and Love		0
91	1966	Wrath of Daimajin	Old Woman Kane	64
92	1967	Journey to the North	Hana Kanai	0
93	1967	Song of Love	Orin	60
94	1967	The Greatest Challenge of All		70
95	1968	Dorei kōjō		0
96	1968	The Sands of Kurobe		62
97	1968	The Final Winner?		0
98	1968	The Human Bullet		61
99	1969	River Without a Bridge		50
100	1969	Thousand Cranes	Toyo	83
101	1969	Heat Wave Island		60
102	1970	Apart from Life	Matsuko Fukuji	58
103	1970	River Without a Bridge Part 2		0
104	1970	Terror in the Streets	Shino	75
105	1970	Oh, My Comrade!	Harumi	0
106	1970	The Little Hero		0
107	1970	Pure Land, Poisoned Sea	Goze / Narrator (voice)	0
108	1971	A Woman Called En		0
109	1971	Patience Has An End		57
110	1971	Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion		0
111	1971	Price of Life	Tome	0
112	1972	My Voiceless Friends		0
113	1972	The Golden Bat Shows Up		0
114	1972	Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte	Moko's mother	0
115	1974	Kobayashi Takiji		0
116	1976	The Sea of Eden		0
117	1976	The Possessed		0
118	1977	The Wild Daisy	Tamiko's Grandmother	0
119	1977	Proof of the Man		74
120	1978	Never Give Up	Kiyo Matsushita	57
121	1979	Nomugi Pass		63
122	1979	The Three Undelivered Letters		60
123	1979	Gassan		0
124	1980	Writhing Tongue	Akira's mother	62
125	1981	Call from Darkness	Sukeno	57
126	1981	Station	Masayo Mikami	61
127	1982	Suspicion	Harue Shirakawa	67
128	1983	Amagi Pass	Tea house's old woman	67
129	1983	Tora-san's Song of Love		80
130	1983	Our Teacher		0
131	1983	White Snake Enchantment	Tane	47
132	1985	Dangerous Women	Mrs. Kinumura	0
133	1985	Haze of Love		0
134	1985	Love: Starting on a Journey		25
135	1985	The Burmese Harp	Old Woman	52
136	1987	Twilight of the Cockroaches	Torah (voice)	60
137	1988	My Neighbor Totoro	Granny (voice)	81
138	1989	Rikyu	Mother	75
139	1991	Rainbow Kids	Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa	64
140	2002	Letter from the Mountain	Oume	84
141	2003	Resurrection	Saki Naito	57

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	おくさまは18歳	Asuka's grandmother	0
2	1971	Mayuko hitori	加野のぶ	0