Biography 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 Letter from the Mountain
2002
Oume
Details Rainbow Kids
1991
Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
Details My Neighbor Totoro
1988
Granny (voice)
Details Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
Torah (voice)
Details The Burmese Harp
1985
Old Woman
Details Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
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Details Haze of Love
1985
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Details Dangerous Women
1985
Mrs. Kinumura
Details White Snake Enchantment
1983
Tane
Details Our Teacher
1983
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Details Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
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Details Amagi Pass
1983
Tea house's old woman
Details Suspicion
1982
Harue Shirakawa
Details Call from Darkness
1981
Sukeno
Details Writhing Tongue
1980
Akira's mother
Details The Three Undelivered Letters
1979
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Details Nomugi Pass
1979
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Details Never Give Up
1978
Kiyo Matsushita
Details Proof of the Man
1977
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Details The Wild Daisy
1977
Tamiko's Grandmother
Details The Possessed
1976
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Details The Sea of Eden
1976
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Details Kobayashi Takiji
1974
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Details Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
1972
Moko's mother
Details The Golden Bat Shows Up
1972
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Details My Voiceless Friends
1972
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Details Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971
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Details Patience Has An End
1971
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Details A Woman Called En
1971
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Details Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
1970
Goze / Narrator (voice)
Details The Little Hero
1970
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Details Terror in the Streets
1970
Shino
Details River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970
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Details Apart from Life
1970
Matsuko Fukuji
Details Heat Wave Island
1969
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Details River Without a Bridge
1969
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Details The Human Bullet
1968
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Details The Final Winner?
1968
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Details The Sands of Kurobe
1968
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Details Dorei kōjō
1968
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Details The Greatest Challenge of All
1967
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Details Journey to the North
1967
Hana Kanai
Details Wrath of Daimajin
1966
Old Woman Kane
Details A Windmill, Tulips and Love
1966
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Details Blood and Sea
1965
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Details A Chain of Islands
1965
Kikuko Sasaki
Details Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965
Hayashida's mother
Details The Start of Life
1965
Tomi Ishiguro
Details Gazing at Love and Death
1964
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Details Intentions of Murder
1964
Kinu Takahashi
Details A Story from Echigo
1964
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Details The Long Death
1964
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Details Only on Mondays
1964
Yuka's mother
Details Welcome, My Baby
1964
Yuki Nishizaka
Details All My Children
1963
Fusakichi's mother
Details Beyond the Green Hills
1963
Shiraki, Teacher
Details Children of Izu
1962
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Details Ashita au hito
1962
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Details Asu no hanayome
1962
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Details The Young and Bad
1962
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Details Red Bud and White Flower
1962
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Details Dolls floating down the river
1962
Fuku
Details Ningen Gari
1962
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Details A Good Man, A Good Day
1961
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Details Enraptured
1961
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Details Marriageable Age
1961
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Details The Sun's Burial
1960
Chika, Batasuke's wife
Details The Human Wall
1959
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Details Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
Grandma Shigeko
Details Musume no boken
1958
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Details Conflagration
1958
Aki, Goichi's mother
Details Chance Meeting
1958
Tetsu Koyanagi
Details The Flesh Is Weak
1957
Doctor
Details Hole in One
1957
Suga Akabane
Details Saigo no sentō-ki
1956
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Details The Shadow of Fear
1956
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Details How Sorrowful
1956
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Details Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
Kane
Details Darkness at Noon
1956
Satoe Miyazaki
Details Jigoku no hatoba
1956
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Details The Burmese Harp
1956
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Details The Motherless
1955
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Details Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
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Details The Dawn of Judo
1955
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Details A Hole of My Own Making
1955
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Details The Heart
1955
Hioki's mother
Details The Wolves
1955
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Details The Maid's Kid
1955
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Details Ghost Story of Youth
1955
Nanny at Okumura's
Details A Billionaire
1954
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Details The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
Tetsu Ishida
Details The Street Without Sun
1954
Aunt of Matsutaro
Details Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
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Details A Japanese Tragedy
1953
Ichizo's wife
Details A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953
Ohana
Details Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953
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Details Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
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Details Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
1952
Aunt Otora
Details Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952
Fusako Kawai
Details Beauty and the Thief
1952
Mrs. Inokuma
Details Children of Hiroshima
1952
Otoyo
Details Farewell to Spring
1952
Old woman
Details Become a Mother, Become a Woman
1952
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Details Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
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Details Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
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Details White Beast
1950
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Details Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
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