Acting
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.
Filmography
Yomigaeri
Film · 2003
Letter from the Mountain
Film · 2002
Rainbow Kids
Film · 1991
Rikyu
Film · 1989
My Neighbor Totoro
Film · 1988
Yamada Village Waltz
Film · 1988
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Film · 1987
The Burmese Harp
Film · 1985
Love: Starting on a Journey
Film · 1985
Haze of Love
Film · 1985
Dangerous Women
Film · 1985
White Snake Enchantment
Film · 1983
Amagi Pass
Film · 1983
Our Teacher
Film · 1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
Film · 1983
Suspicion
Film · 1982
The Legend of Sayo
Film · 1982
Station
Film · 1981
Call from Darkness
Film · 1981
Writhing Tongue
Film · 1980
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
Film · 1980
Gassan
Film · 1979
Nomugi Pass
Film · 1979
The Three Undelivered Letters
Film · 1979
Never Give Up
Film · 1978
The Incident
Film · 1978
The Wild Daisy
Film · 1977
Proof of the Man
Film · 1977
The Possessed
Film · 1976
The Sea of Eden
Film · 1976
Kobayashi Takiji
Film · 1974
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
Film · 1972
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Film · 1972
My Voiceless Friends
Film · 1972
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
Film · 1972
A Woman Called En
Film · 1971
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
Film · 1971
Patience Has An End
Film · 1971
Price of Life
Film · 1971
Mayuko hitori
Series · 1971
Apart from Life
Film · 1970
River Without a Bridge Part 2
Film · 1970
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
Film · 1970
The Little Hero
Film · 1970
Terror in the Streets
Film · 1970
Oh, My Comrade!
Film · 1970
おくさまは18歳
Series · 1970
Heat Wave Island
Film · 1969
River Without a Bridge
Film · 1969
Thousand Cranes
Film · 1969
The Human Bullet
Film · 1968
Slave Factory
Film · 1968
The Sands of Kurobe
Film · 1968
The Final Winner?
Film · 1968
The Greatest Challenge of All
Film · 1967
Journey to the North
Film · 1967
Song of Love
Film · 1967
The Last Lady
Film · 1967
Wrath of Daimajin
Film · 1966
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
Film · 1966
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Film · 1966
Blood and Sea
Film · 1965
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Film · 1965
The Start of Life
Film · 1965
A Chain of Islands
Film · 1965
Ane to imôto
Film · 1965
Trigger Happy Romeo
Film · 1965
Only on Mondays
Film · 1964
The Long Death
Film · 1964
A Story from Echigo
Film · 1964
Welcome, My Baby
Film · 1964
Intentions of Murder
Film · 1964
Gazing at Love and Death
Film · 1964
The Insect Woman
Film · 1963
All My Children
Film · 1963
Beyond the Green Hills
Film · 1963
Bad Girl
Film · 1963
The Third Will
Film · 1963
Daybreak Chorus
Film · 1963
Red Bud and White Flower
Film · 1962
Dolls floating down the river
Film · 1962
Foundry Town
Film · 1962
Asu no hanayome
Film · 1962
Ashita au hito
Film · 1962
Nippon no obaachan
Film · 1962
The Young and Bad
Film · 1962
Ningen Gari
Film · 1962
Children of Izu
Film · 1962
Buddha
Film · 1961
Enraptured
Film · 1961
Blind Devotion
Film · 1961
Marriageable Age
Film · 1961
A Good Man, A Good Day
Film · 1961
Shokei zen'ya
Film · 1961
The Famous Wanderer
Film · 1961
小父さんありがとう
Film · 1961
Bonchi
Film · 1960
The Sun's Burial
Film · 1960
The Grave Tells All
Film · 1960
Yakuza sensei
Film · 1960
Odd Obsession
Film · 1959
The Human Wall
Film · 1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Film · 1959
My Second Brother
Film · 1959
Paper Pigeon
Film · 1959
A Week in Hawaii
Film · 1959
Musume no boken
Film · 1958
Conflagration
Film · 1958
Stakeout
Film · 1958
Chance Meeting
Film · 1958
Omoni to shounen
Film · 1958
My Son's Revolt
Film · 1958
Hole in One
Film · 1957
But the Flesh is Weak
Film · 1957
Saigo no sentō-ki
Film · 1956
How Sorrowful
Film · 1956
Our Town
Film · 1956
Darkness at Noon
Film · 1956
The Shadow of Fear
Film · 1956
Love is Lost
Film · 1956
The Burmese Harp
Film · 1956
Summer Storm
Film · 1956
Shiawase wa doko ni
Film · 1956
Jigoku no hatoba
Film · 1956
Actress
Film · 1956
Hana no unga
Film · 1956
The Heart
Film · 1955
The Dawn of Judo
Film · 1955
A Hole of My Own Making
Film · 1955
The Motherless
Film · 1955
The Maid's Kid
Film · 1955
The Wolves
Film · 1955
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Film · 1955
Ghost Story of Youth
Film · 1955
Sisters
Film · 1955
Youth
Film · 1955
A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
Film · 1955
Dawn Chorus
Film · 1955
Inhibited Love
Film · 1955
A Billionaire
Film · 1954
The Street Without Sun
Film · 1954
Tomoshibi
Film · 1954
The Valley Between Love and Death
Film · 1954
Victory or Defeat
Film · 1954
Shinzōyaburi no oka
Film · 1954
Jūdai no yūwaku
Film · 1953
A Japanese Tragedy
Film · 1953
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Film · 1953
Before the Dawn
Film · 1953
Miniature
Film · 1953
Desire
Film · 1953
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
Film · 1953
Outlaw
Film · 1953
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Film · 1952
Beauty and the Thief
Film · 1952
Farewell to Spring
Film · 1952
Children of Hiroshima
Film · 1952
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
Film · 1952
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Film · 1952
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
Film · 1952
Koibito
Film · 1951
男の哀愁
Film · 1951
限りなき情熱
Film · 1951
The Bitch
Film · 1951
White Beast
Film · 1950
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
Film · 1950
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Film · 1950
Scandal
Film · 1950
The Scarlet Bat
Film · 1950
Koga Manshion
Film · 1949
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Film · 1937