Tanie Kitabayashi
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.
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1911-05-21
Place of birth
Tokyo, Japan
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Cast
Musume no boken
1958
0.00
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
8.07
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
0.00
Never Give Up
1978
5.70
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
0.00
Rikyu
1989
7.50
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
0.00
Dolls floating down the river
1962
0.00
The Insect Woman
1963
7.38
Koibito
1951
5.40
Beauty and the Thief
1952
0.00
Farewell to Spring
1952
0.00
Foundry Town
1962
7.60
A Japanese Tragedy
1953
5.60
Resurrection
2003
5.60
White Beast
1950
6.00
Children of Hiroshima
1952
7.10
Conflagration
1958
7.10
Apart from Life
1970
5.80
The Human Bullet
1968
6.10
All My Children
1963
7.20
Only on Mondays
1964
6.20
Letter from the Mountain
2002
8.40
Station
1981
6.10
The Heart
1955
6.80
Hole in One
1957
6.00
Blood and Sea
1965
0.00
A Billionaire
1954
5.70
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970
0.00
Writhing Tongue
1980
6.20
Gassan
1979
0.00
A Woman Called En
1971
0.00
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967
0.00
The Wild Daisy
1977
0.00
Bonchi
1960
7.00
Saigo no sentō-ki
1956
0.00
Asu no hanayome
1962
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A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953
0.00
Ashita au hito
1962
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男の哀愁
1951
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The Dawn of Judo
1955
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Dorei kōjō
1968
0.00
Kobayashi Takiji
1974
0.00
Wrath of Daimajin
1966
6.40
Journey to the North
1967
0.00
限りなき情熱
1951
0.00
Heat Wave Island
1969
6.00
Scandal
1950
6.90
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
1970
0.00
The Sun's Burial
1960
6.50
River Without a Bridge
1969
5.00
White Snake Enchantment
1983
6.50
Buddha
1961
0.00
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
6.20
The Golden Bat Shows Up
1972
0.00
The Burmese Harp
1985
5.20
Rainbow Kids
1991
6.40
The Possessed
1976
0.00
How Sorrowful
1956
0.00
Our Town
1956
6.80
A Hole of My Own Making
1955
6.00
The Little Hero
1970
0.00
The Motherless
1955
0.00
Before Dawn
1953
0.00
The Long Death
1964
0.00
Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965
6.80
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
0.00
Odd Obsession
1959
6.30
Stakeout
1958
6.90
Call from Darkness
1981
5.70
The Human Wall
1959
5.00
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
1966
0.00
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
2.50
Enraptured
1961
0.00
The Maid's Kid
1955
7.00
A Story from Echigo
1964
7.20
The Wolves
1955
6.80
Patience Has An End
1971
5.70
Bad Girl
1963
7.80
Amagi Pass
1983
6.70
The Street Without Sun
1954
0.00
Our Teacher
1983
0.00
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952
0.00
Welcome, My Baby
1964
0.00
The Final Winner?
1968
0.00
Suspicion
1982
6.70
Blind Devotion
1961
0.00
Terror in the Streets
1970
7.00
The Sea of Eden
1976
0.00
Haze of Love
1985
0.00
Darkness at Noon
1956
6.60
The Shadow of Fear
1956
0.00
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
6.10
Love is Lost
1956
7.00
Chance Meeting
1958
0.00
The Start of Life
1965
0.00
The Flesh Is Weak
1957
6.00
Oh, My Comrade!
1970
0.00
Marriageable Age
1961
0.00
The Burmese Harp
1956
7.90
Nippon no obaachan
1962
0.00
Intentions of Murder
1964
7.10
The Bitch
1951
0.00
A Chain of Islands
1965
6.40
Summer Storm
1956
6.00
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
6.20
The Young and Bad
1962
0.00
Ningen Gari
1962
0.00
Nomugi Pass
1979
6.30
Gazing at Love and Death
1964
7.00
Proof of the Man
1977
7.40
Miniature
1953
8.00
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
0.00
The Third Will
1963
8.00
Thousand Cranes
1969
9.00
Children of Izu
1962
0.00
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
1972
0.00
My Voiceless Friends
1972
0.00
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979
6.00
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
8.00
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
1952
0.00
Song of Love
1967
6.00
Yokubo
1953
0.00
Tomoshibi
1954
0.00
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
6.00
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961
0.00
Price of Life
1971
0.00
Jigoku no hatoba
1956
0.00
Actress
1956
0.00
Dangerous Women
1985
0.00
Ghost Story of Youth
1955
0.00
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953
0.00