Tanie Kitabayashi
May 21, 1911 (113 years old) in Tokyo, Japan
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
Credits
- 2003 · Resurrection as Saki Naito
- 2002 · Letter from the Mountain as Oume
- 1991 · Rainbow Kids as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
- 1989 · Rikyu as Mother
- 1988 · My Neighbor Totoro as Granny (voice)
- 1987 · Twilight of the Cockroaches as Torah (voice)
- 1985 · The Burmese Harp as Old Woman
- 1985 · Love: Starting on a Journey as
- 1985 · Haze of Love as
- 1985 · Dangerous Women as Mrs. Kinumura
- 1983 · White Snake Enchantment as Tane
- 1983 · Our Teacher as
- 1983 · Tora-san's Song of Love as
- 1983 · Amagi Pass as Tea house's old woman
- 1982 · Suspicion as Harue Shirakawa
- 1981 · Station as Masayo Mikami
- 1981 · Call from Darkness as Sukeno
- 1980 · Writhing Tongue as Akira's mother
- 1979 · Gassan as
- 1979 · The Three Undelivered Letters as
- 1979 · Nomugi Pass as
- 1978 · Never Give Up as Kiyo Matsushita
- 1977 · Proof of the Man as
- 1977 · The Wild Daisy as Tamiko's Grandmother
- 1976 · The Possessed as
- 1976 · The Sea of Eden as
- 1974 · Kobayashi Takiji as
- 1972 · Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte as Moko's mother
- 1972 · The Golden Bat Shows Up as
- 1972 · My Voiceless Friends as
- 1971 · Price of Life as Tome
- 1971 · Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion as
- 1971 · Patience Has An End as
- 1971 · A Woman Called En as
- 1971 · Mayuko hitori as 加野のぶ
- 1970 · Pure Land, Poisoned Sea as Goze / Narrator (voice)
- 1970 · おくさまは18歳 as Asuka's grandmother
- 1970 · The Little Hero as
- 1970 · Oh, My Comrade! as Harumi
- 1970 · Terror in the Streets as Shino
- 1970 · River Without a Bridge Part 2 as
- 1970 · Apart from Life as Matsuko Fukuji
- 1969 · Heat Wave Island as
- 1969 · Thousand Cranes as Toyo
- 1969 · River Without a Bridge as
- 1968 · The Human Bullet as
- 1968 · The Final Winner? as
- 1968 · The Sands of Kurobe as
- 1968 · Dorei kōjō as
- 1967 · The Greatest Challenge of All as
- 1967 · Song of Love as Orin
- 1967 · Journey to the North as Hana Kanai
- 1966 · Wrath of Daimajin as Old Woman Kane
- 1966 · A Windmill, Tulips and Love as
- 1965 · Blood and Sea as
- 1965 · A Chain of Islands as Kikuko Sasaki
- 1965 · Tale of Japanese Burglars as Hayashida's mother
- 1965 · The Start of Life as Tomi Ishiguro
- 1964 · Gazing at Love and Death as
- 1964 · Intentions of Murder as Kinu Takahashi
- 1964 · A Story from Echigo as
- 1964 · The Long Death as
- 1964 · Only on Mondays as Yuka's mother
- 1964 · Welcome, My Baby as Yuki Nishizaka
- 1963 · The Insect Woman as Madam
- 1963 · The Third Will as Kimie
- 1963 · Bad Girl as
- 1963 · All My Children as Fusakichi's mother
- 1963 · Beyond the Green Hills as Shiraki, Teacher
- 1962 · Children of Izu as
- 1962 · Ashita au hito as
- 1962 · Asu no hanayome as
- 1962 · The Young and Bad as
- 1962 · Red Bud and White Flower as
- 1962 · Foundry Town as Ume
- 1962 · Dolls floating down the river as Fuku
- 1962 · Ningen Gari as
- 1962 · Nippon no obaachan as Kumi
- 1961 · Buddha as Sumi
- 1961 · A Good Man, A Good Day as
- 1961 · Enraptured as
- 1961 · Blind Devotion as Saoko
- 1961 · Marriageable Age as
- 1960 · The Sun's Burial as Chika, Batasuke's wife
- 1960 · Bonchi as
- 1959 · The Human Wall as
- 1959 · Odd Obsession as Hana
- 1959 · Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan as Grandma Shigeko
- 1958 · Musume no boken as
- 1958 · Conflagration as Aki, Goichi's mother
- 1958 · Stakeout as
- 1958 · Chance Meeting as Tetsu Koyanagi
- 1957 · The Flesh Is Weak as Doctor
- 1957 · Hole in One as Suga Akabane
- 1956 · Actress as
- 1956 · Saigo no sentō-ki as
- 1956 · Summer Storm as Mitsu Asai
- 1956 · The Shadow of Fear as
- 1956 · How Sorrowful as
- 1956 · Our Town as Otaka
- 1956 · Shiawase wa doko ni as Kane
- 1956 · Darkness at Noon as Satoe Miyazaki
- 1956 · Jigoku no hatoba as
- 1956 · Love is Lost as Nobuyo
- 1956 · The Burmese Harp as
- 1955 · The Motherless as
- 1955 · Policeman's Diary, Part 2 as
- 1955 · A Hole of My Own Making as
- 1955 · The Dawn of Judo as
- 1955 · The Heart as Hioki's mother
- 1955 · The Wolves as
- 1955 · The Maid's Kid as
- 1955 · Ghost Story of Youth as Nanny at Okumura's
- 1954 · A Billionaire as
- 1954 · The Valley Between Love and Death as Tetsu Ishida
- 1954 · The Street Without Sun as Aunt of Matsutaro
- 1954 · Tomoshibi as
- 1953 · Jūdai no yūwaku as
- 1953 · Before Dawn as Ofuki
- 1953 · A Japanese Tragedy as Ichizo's wife
- 1953 · Yokubo as
- 1953 · Miniature as
- 1953 · A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land as Ohana
- 1952 · Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu as
- 1952 · Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to as Aunt Otora
- 1952 · Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete as Fusako Kawai
- 1952 · Beauty and the Thief as Mrs. Inokuma
- 1952 · Children of Hiroshima as Otoyo
- 1952 · Farewell to Spring as Old woman
- 1952 · Become a Mother, Become a Woman as Hide
- 1951 · The Bitch as Tami
- 1951 · 限りなき情熱 as
- 1951 · 男の哀愁 as
- 1951 · Koibito as Mrs. Saeki
- 1950 · Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom as
- 1950 · Les Miserables I: God and the Devil as
- 1950 · White Beast as
- 1950 · Scandal as Yasu Hiruta
- 1937 · Learn from Experience, Part Two as