Tanie Kitabayashi
Acting
🎂 1911-05-21
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.
Cast credits(143)
加野のぶ
1971
Granny (voice)
1988
Mother
1989
Yasu Hiruta
1950
1969
1956
1971
Asuka's grandmother
1970
Old Woman Kane
1966
Tane
1983
Kiyo Matsushita
1978
Madam
1963
Sumi
1961
Otoyo
1952
Torah (voice)
1987
Saki Naito
2003
1955
Aki, Goichi's mother
1958
1977
Ichizo's wife
1953
Hana
1959
Kinu Takahashi
1964
1958
1968
1985
Shiraki, Teacher
1963
Ume
1962
Hioki's mother
1955
1956
Tetsu Koyanagi
1958
Old woman
1952
1955
1968
Akira's mother
1980
Chika, Batasuke's wife
1960
Suga Akabane
1957
1964
1950
1976
Sukeno
1981
Tomi Ishiguro
1965
Aunt of Matsutaro
1954
1961
1979
1979
1970
Kikuko Sasaki
1965
Satoe Miyazaki
1956
Doctor
1957
Shino
1970
Tami
1951
Hayashida's mother
1965
Yuka's mother
1964
Otaka
1956
Harue Shirakawa
1982
Matsuko Fukuji
1970
1953
1962
Yuki Nishizaka
1964
1961
1967
1964
1953
1954
Toyo
1969
Orin
1967
Old Woman
1985
1962
1979
1954
Fusako Kawai
1952
Ohana
1953
1969
Oume
2002
Kimie
1963
1956
Tea house's old woman
1983
1971
Hide
1952
Nanny at Okumura's
1955
1985
Aunt Otora
1952
1955
Nobuyo
1956
1962
1955
Masayo Mikami
1981
1959
1976
Fusakichi's mother
1963
1953
1966
1968
1937
1963
1983
Kane
1956
1953
Tome
1971
Mrs. Saeki
1951
1972
1962
1968
1956
Harumi
1970
1955
1962
1972
1960
Mrs. Kinumura
1985
Fuku
1962
1956
1954
1951
Hana Kanai
1967
1950
Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
1991
1955
1983
1950
1951
1974
Tetsu Ishida
1954
1965
1971
1961
Grandma Shigeko
1959
1970
1958
Kumi
1962
1962
1960
1952
Goze / Narrator (voice)
1970
Mitsu Asai
1956
Moko's mother
1972
1964
1961
Saoko
1961
Tamiko's Grandmother
1977
Mrs. Inokuma
1952
Ofuki
1953
1956