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Tanie Kitabayashi

AKA: Таниэ Китабаяси
Birthday: 1911-05-21
Died: 2010-04-27
Birthplace: 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.

Filmography

My Neighbor Totoro
Character: Granny (voice)

Never Give Up
Character: Kiyo Matsushita
Rikyu
Character: Mother

The Insect Woman
Character: Madam

Koibito
Character: Mrs. Saeki
Beauty and the Thief
Character: Mrs. Inokuma
Farewell to Spring
Character: Old woman

Foundry Town
Character: Ume
A Japanese Tragedy
Character: Ichizo's wife
Resurrection
Character: Saki Naito

Children of Hiroshima
Character: Otoyo
Conflagration
Character: Aki, Goichi's mother

Apart from Life
Character: Matsuko Fukuji
All My Children
Character: Fusakichi's mother

Only on Mondays
Character: Yuka's mother
Letter from the Mountain
Character: Oume
Station
Character: Masayo Mikami

The Heart
Character: Hioki's mother
Hole in One
Character: Suga Akabane

Writhing Tongue
Character: Akira's mother


The Wild Daisy
Character: Tamiko's Grandmother




Wrath of Daimajin
Character: Old Woman Kane
Journey to the North
Character: Hana Kanai

Scandal
Character: Yasu Hiruta
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
Character: Goze / Narrator (voice)

The Sun's Burial
Character: Chika, Batasuke's wife

White Snake Enchantment
Character: Tane
Buddha
Character: Sumi

The Burmese Harp
Character: Old Woman
Rainbow Kids
Character: Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa


Our Town
Character: Otaka

Before Dawn
Character: Ofuki

Tale of Japanese Burglars
Character: Hayashida's mother
Beyond the Green Hills
Character: Shiraki, Teacher
Odd Obsession
Character: Hana

Call from Darkness
Character: Sukeno


Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Character: Grandma Shigeko


Amagi Pass
Character: Tea house's old woman
The Street Without Sun
Character: Aunt of Matsutaro

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Character: Fusako Kawai
Welcome, My Baby
Character: Yuki Nishizaka

Suspicion
Character: Harue Shirakawa
Blind Devotion
Character: Saoko
Terror in the Streets
Character: Shino

Darkness at Noon
Character: Satoe Miyazaki

Twilight of the Cockroaches
Character: Torah (voice)
Love is Lost
Character: Nobuyo

Chance Meeting
Character: Tetsu Koyanagi
The Start of Life
Character: Tomi Ishiguro
The Flesh Is Weak
Character: Doctor

Oh, My Comrade!
Character: Harumi

Nippon no obaachan
Character: Kumi
Intentions of Murder
Character: Kinu Takahashi
The Bitch
Character: Tami

A Chain of Islands
Character: Kikuko Sasaki
Summer Storm
Character: Mitsu Asai



Shiawase wa doko ni
Character: Kane
The Third Will
Character: Kimie
Thousand Cranes
Character: Toyo

Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Character: Moko's mother


Song of Love
Character: Orin

Price of Life
Character: Tome

Dangerous Women
Character: Mrs. Kinumura

The Valley Between Love and Death
Character: Tetsu Ishida
Ghost Story of Youth
Character: Nanny at Okumura's