Tanie Kitabayashi

Known for ActingBorn 1911-05-21Died 2010-04-27Tokyo, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Yamada Village Waltz

Oh, My Comrade!

Buddha

Chance Meeting

Ghost Story of Youth

Before Dawn

The Wild Daisy

My Voiceless Friends

The Little Hero

Slave Factory

The Long Death

Blind Devotion

Shiawase wa doko ni

The Motherless

Yokubo

Beauty and the Thief

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

Letter from the Mountain

Tora-san's Song of Love

My Neighbor Totoro

Thousand Cranes

The Maid's Kid

Our Teacher

The Sea of Eden

Kobayashi Takiji

Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here

The Final Winner?

Hole in One

Proof of the Man

Love is Lost

Actress

A Hole of My Own Making

The Valley Between Love and Death

The Bitch

Foundry Town

Rikyu

The Burmese Harp

Bad Girl

The Third Will

Miniature

Bonchi

Terror in the Streets

River Without a Bridge

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

The Incident

Nomugi Pass

All My Children

But the Flesh is Weak