Actor
Tanie Kitabayashi
May 21, 1911 · 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.
Notable work
Often works with
Jun Hamamura
3 titles together
The Burmese Harp, Odd Obsession, Conflagration
Shoichi Ozawa
3 titles together
The Insect Woman, Intentions of Murder, The Human Bullet
Masumi Harukawa
3 titles together
The Insect Woman, Intentions of Murder, The Human Bullet
Jun Tatara
3 titles together
Children of Hiroshima, Stakeout, A Japanese Tragedy
Hideji Ōtaki
3 titles together
Children of Hiroshima, Proof of the Man, Station
Tatsuya Nakadai
3 titles together
Odd Obsession, Conflagration, The Human Bullet
Full filmography · 150
Yomigaeri
as Saki Naito
2003
Letter from the Mountain
as Oume
2002
Rainbow Kids
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
1991
Rikyu
as Mother
19897.5
My Neighbor Totoro
as Granny (voice)
19888.1
Yamada Village Waltz
cast
1988
Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Torah (voice)
1987
The Burmese Harp
as Old Woman
1985
Love: Starting on a Journey
cast
1985
Dangerous Women
as Mrs. Kinumura
1985
White Snake Enchantment
as Tane
1983
Our Teacher
cast
1983