
Tanie Kitabayashi
Acting
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.

Resurrection
Saki Naito

Letter from the Mountain
Oume

Rainbow Kids
Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa

Rikyu
Mother

My Neighbor Totoro
Granny (voice)

Yamada Village Waltz

Twilight of the Cockroaches
Torah (voice)

The Burmese Harp
Old Woman

Love: Starting on a Journey
Haze of Love

Dangerous Women
Mrs. Kinumura

White Snake Enchantment
Tane

Our Teacher

Tora-san's Song of Love

Amagi Pass
Tea house's old woman

Suspicion
Harue Shirakawa

Station
Masayo Mikami

Call from Darkness
Sukeno

Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul

Writhing Tongue
Akira's mother

Gassan

The Three Undelivered Letters

Nomugi Pass

Never Give Up
Kiyo Matsushita

The Incident
Kane Shinozaki

Proof of the Man

The Wild Daisy
Tamiko's Grandmother

The Possessed

The Sea of Eden

Kobayashi Takiji

Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Moko's mother

Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here

My Voiceless Friends

Price of Life
Tome

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion

Patience Has An End

A Woman Called En

Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
Goze / Narrator (voice)
The Little Hero

Oh, My Comrade!
Harumi

Terror in the Streets
Shino

River Without a Bridge Part 2

Apart from Life
Matsuko Fukuji

Heat Wave Island

Thousand Cranes
Toyo

River Without a Bridge

The Human Bullet

The Final Winner?

The Sands of Kurobe

Dorei kōjō

The Greatest Challenge of All

Song of Love
Orin

Journey to the North
Hana Kanai

Wrath of Daimajin
Old Woman Kane
A Windmill, Tulips and Love

Blood and Sea

A Chain of Islands
Kikuko Sasaki

Tale of Japanese Burglars
Hayashida's mother

The Start of Life
Tomi Ishiguro

Gazing at Love and Death

Intentions of Murder
Kinu Takahashi

A Story from Echigo

The Long Death

Only on Mondays
Yuka's mother

Welcome, My Baby
Yuki Nishizaka

Daybreak Chorus
Old Woman

The Insect Woman
Madam

The Third Will
Kimie

Bad Girl

All My Children
Fusakichi's mother

Beyond the Green Hills
Shiraki, Teacher

Children of Izu

Ashita au hito

The Young and Bad

Asu no hanayome

Red Bud and White Flower

Foundry Town
Ume

Dolls floating down the river
Fuku

Ningen Gari

Nippon no obaachan
Kumi

Buddha
Sumi

A Good Man, A Good Day
Enraptured

でかんしょ風来坊

Blind Devotion
Saoko

Shokei zen'ya

Marriageable Age

Yakuza sensei

The Sun's Burial
Chika

Bonchi

The Grave Tells All

My Second Brother

The Human Wall

Odd Obsession
Hana

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Grandma Shigeko

Musume no boken

Conflagration
Aki, Goichi's mother

Chance Meeting
Tetsu Koyanagi

Stakeout
Omoni to shounen

But the Flesh is Weak
Doctor

Hole in One
Suga Akabane

Actress

Saigo no sentō-ki

Summer Storm
Mitsu Asai

The Shadow of Fear
How Sorrowful

Our Town
Otaka

Shiawase wa doko ni
Kane

Darkness at Noon
Satoe Miyazaki

Jigoku no hatoba

Love is Lost
Nobuyo

The Burmese Harp
The Motherless

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

A Hole of My Own Making

The Dawn of Judo

The Heart
Hioki's mother

The Wolves

The Maid's Kid

Ghost Story of Youth
Nanny at Okumura's

Sisters

Victory or Defeat

A Billionaire

The Valley Between Love and Death
Tetsu Ishida

The Street Without Sun
Aunt of Matsutaro

Tomoshibi

Jūdai no yūwaku

Before Dawn
Ofuki

A Japanese Tragedy
Ichizo's wife

Yokubo

Miniature

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Ohana

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
Aunt Otora

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Fusako Kawai

Beauty and the Thief
Mrs. Inokuma

Children of Hiroshima
Otoyo

Farewell to Spring
Old woman

Become a Mother, Become a Woman
Hide

The Bitch
Tami

限りなき情熱

男の哀愁

Koibito
Mrs. Saeki

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

White Beast

Scandal
Yasu Hiruta

Learn from Experience, Part Two







