Tanie Kitabayashi
Known for: Acting
Born: May 21, 1911
Died: April 27, 2010
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
164 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first
6.1
Yomigaeri
2003
8.2
Letter from the Mountain
2002
6.7
Rainbow Kids
1991
7.5
Rikyu
1989
8.1
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
10.0
Yamada Village Waltz
1988
6.2
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
5.6
The Burmese Harp
1985
4.7
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985NR
Haze of Love
1985
NR
Dangerous Women
1985
5.6
White Snake Enchantment
1983
8.0
Our Teacher
1983
8.3
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
6.5
Amagi Pass
1983
7.0
The Legend of Sayo
1982
7.0
Suspicion
1982
6.4
Station
1981
6.3
Call from Darkness
1981
NR
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
1980
7.0
Writhing Tongue
1980
7.0
Gassan
1979
6.0
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979
7.2
Nomugi Pass
1979
6.4
Never Give Up
1978
7.2
The Incident
1978
7.8
Proof of the Man
1977
9.0
The Wild Daisy
1977
7.0
The Possessed
1976
8.0
The Sea of Eden
1976
8.0
Kobayashi Takiji
1974
NR
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
1972
8.0
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
1972
9.0
My Voiceless Friends
1972
NR
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
1972
NR
Price of Life
1971
NR
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971
5.9
Patience Has An End
1971
NR
A Woman Called En
1971
NR
Mayuko hitori
1971
NR
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
1970
NR
おくさまは18歳
1970
9.0
The Little Hero
1970
10.0
Oh, My Comrade!
1970
7.5
Terror in the Streets
1970
NR
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970
6.2
Apart from Life
1970
6.7
Heat Wave Island
1969
8.2
Thousand Cranes
1969
7.5
River Without a Bridge
1969
6.0
The Human Bullet
1968
8.0
The Final Winner?
1968
7.0
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
9.0
Slave Factory
1968
NR
The Last Lady
1967
7.0
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967
6.5
Song of Love
1967
NR
Journey to the North
1967
6.3
Wrath of Daimajin
1966NR
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
1966
NR
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1966
NR
Blood and Sea
1965
6.8
A Chain of Islands
1965
7.0
Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965
NR
The Start of Life
1965
NR
Ane to imôto
1965
7.0
Gazing at Love and Death
1964
7.0
Intentions of Murder
1964
7.2
A Story from Echigo
1964
9.0
The Long Death
1964
6.8
Only on Mondays
1964
NR
Welcome, My Baby
1964
NR
Daybreak Chorus
1963
7.2
The Insect Woman
1963
7.7
The Third Will
1963
7.6
Bad Girl
1963
7.3
All My Children
1963
7.0
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
NR
Children of Izu
1962
NR
Ashita au hito
1962
NR
Asu no hanayome
1962
NR
The Young and Bad
1962
7.0
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
7.8
Foundry Town
1962
NR
Dolls floating down the river
1962
NR
Ningen Gari
1962
7.0
Nippon no obaachan
1962
10.0
Buddha
1961
NR
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961NR
Enraptured
1961
NR
The Famous Wanderer
1961NR
小父さんありがとう
1961
9.0
Blind Devotion
1961
NR
Shokei zen'ya
1961
7.0
Marriageable Age
1961
7.0
Yakuza sensei
1960
6.4
The Sun's Burial
1960
7.7
Bonchi
1960
NR
The Grave Tells All
1960
6.6
My Second Brother
1959
6.3
The Human Wall
1959
6.3
Odd Obsession
1959
NR
Paper Pigeon
1959
5.9
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
NR
Musume no boken
1958
7.1
Conflagration
1958
7.1
Stakeout
1958
10.0
Chance Meeting
1958NR
Omoni to shounen
1958
7.3
But the Flesh is Weak
1957
8.0
Hole in One
1957
8.0
Actress
1956
NR
Saigo no sentō-ki
1956
6.5
Summer Storm
1956
NR
The Shadow of Fear
1956NR
How Sorrowful
1956
6.9
Our Town
1956
NR
Hana no unga
1956
9.0
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
6.9
Darkness at Noon
1956
NR
Jigoku no hatoba
1956
8.0
Love is Lost
1956
7.8
The Burmese Harp
19569.0
The Motherless
1955
7.5
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
NR
Youth
1955
NR
The Dawn of Judo
1955
8.0
A Hole of My Own Making
1955
7.0
The Heart
1955
6.9
The Wolves
1955
8.3
The Maid's Kid
1955
10.0
Ghost Story of Youth
1955
7.0
Sisters
1955
NR
A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
1955
NR
Victory or Defeat
1954
6.8
A Billionaire
1954
8.0
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
7.0
The Street Without Sun
1954
7.0
Tomoshibi
1954
NR
Shinzōyaburi no oka
1954
NR
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
NR
Outlaw
1953
10.0
Before Dawn
1953
5.8
A Japanese Tragedy
1953
9.0
Desire
1953
7.8
Miniature
1953
7.0
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953
NR
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953
NR
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952NR
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
1952
NR
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952
9.0
Beauty and the Thief
1952
7.1
Children of Hiroshima
1952
NR
Farewell to Spring
1952
NR
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
1952
8.0
The Bitch
1951
NR
限りなき情熱
1951
NR
男の哀愁
1951
6.0
Koibito
1951
NR
The Scarlet Bat
1950
7.0
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
19509.0
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
5.6
White Beast
1950
6.9
Scandal
1950
NR
Koga Manshion
1949
6.3
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937