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Personal Info

Known Credits 137

Gender Female

Birthdate 1911-05-21 (114 Y.O)

Place Of Birth Tokyo, Japan

Also Known For Таниэ Китабаяси北村谷栄北林谷栄

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 ...

Known For

Resurrection

Letter from the Mountain

Rainbow Kids

Rikyu

My Neighbor Totoro

Acting

2003 -- Resurrection | Saki Naito

2002 -- Letter from the Mountain | Oume

1991 -- Rainbow Kids | Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa

1989 -- Rikyu | Mother

1988 -- My Neighbor Totoro | Granny (voice)

1987 -- Twilight of the Cockroaches | Torah (voice)

1985 -- The Burmese Harp | Old Woman

1985 -- Love: Starting on a Journey |

1985 -- Haze of Love |

1985 -- Dangerous Women | Mrs. Kinumura

1983 -- White Snake Enchantment | Tane

1983 -- Our Teacher |

1983 -- Tora-san's Song of Love |

1983 -- Amagi Pass | Tea house's old woman

1982 -- Suspicion | Harue Shirakawa

1981 -- Station | Masayo Mikami

1981 -- Call from Darkness | Sukeno

1980 -- Writhing Tongue | Akira's mother

1979 -- Gassan |

1979 -- The Three Undelivered Letters |

1979 -- Nomugi Pass |

1978 -- Never Give Up | Kiyo Matsushita

1977 -- Proof of the Man |

1977 -- The Wild Daisy | Tamiko's Grandmother

1976 -- The Possessed |

1976 -- The Sea of Eden |

1974 -- Kobayashi Takiji |

1972 -- Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte | Moko's mother

1972 -- The Golden Bat Shows Up |

1972 -- My Voiceless Friends |

1971 -- Price of Life | Tome

1971 -- Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion |

1971 -- Patience Has An End |

1971 -- A Woman Called En |

1970 -- Pure Land, Poisoned Sea | Goze / Narrator (voice)

1970 -- The Little Hero |

1970 -- Oh, My Comrade! | Harumi

1970 -- Terror in the Streets | Shino

1970 -- River Without a Bridge Part 2 |

1970 -- Apart from Life | Matsuko Fukuji

1969 -- Heat Wave Island |

1969 -- Thousand Cranes | Toyo

1969 -- River Without a Bridge |

1968 -- The Human Bullet |

1968 -- The Final Winner? |

1968 -- The Sands of Kurobe |

1968 -- Dorei kōjō |

1967 -- The Greatest Challenge of All |

1967 -- Song of Love | Orin

1967 -- Journey to the North | Hana Kanai

1966 -- Wrath of Daimajin | Old Woman Kane

1966 -- A Windmill, Tulips and Love |

1965 -- Blood and Sea |

1965 -- A Chain of Islands | Kikuko Sasaki

1965 -- Tale of Japanese Burglars | Hayashida's mother

1965 -- The Start of Life | Tomi Ishiguro

1964 -- Gazing at Love and Death |

1964 -- Intentions of Murder | Kinu Takahashi

1964 -- A Story from Echigo |

1964 -- The Long Death |

1964 -- Only on Mondays | Yuka's mother

1964 -- Welcome, My Baby | Yuki Nishizaka

1963 -- The Insect Woman | Madam

1963 -- The Third Will | Kimie

1963 -- Bad Girl |

1963 -- All My Children | Fusakichi's mother

1963 -- Beyond the Green Hills | Shiraki, Teacher

1962 -- Children of Izu |

1962 -- Ashita au hito |

1962 -- The Young and Bad |

1962 -- Asu no hanayome |

1962 -- Red Bud and White Flower |

1962 -- Foundry Town | Ume

1962 -- Dolls floating down the river | Fuku

1962 -- Ningen Gari |

1962 -- Nippon no obaachan | Kumi

1961 -- Buddha | Sumi

1961 -- A Good Man, A Good Day |

1961 -- Enraptured |

1961 -- Blind Devotion | Saoko

1961 -- Marriageable Age |

1960 -- The Sun's Burial | Chika, Batasuke's wife

1960 -- Bonchi |

1959 -- The Human Wall |

1959 -- Odd Obsession | Hana

1959 -- Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan | Grandma Shigeko

1958 -- Musume no boken |

1958 -- Conflagration | Aki, Goichi's mother

1958 -- Chance Meeting | Tetsu Koyanagi

1958 -- Stakeout |

1957 -- The Flesh Is Weak | Doctor

1957 -- Hole in One | Suga Akabane

1956 -- Actress |

1956 -- Saigo no sentō-ki |

1956 -- Summer Storm | Mitsu Asai

1956 -- The Shadow of Fear |

1956 -- How Sorrowful |

1956 -- Our Town | Otaka

1956 -- Shiawase wa doko ni | Kane

1956 -- Darkness at Noon | Satoe Miyazaki

1956 -- Jigoku no hatoba |

1956 -- Love is Lost | Nobuyo

1956 -- The Burmese Harp |

1955 -- The Motherless |

1955 -- Policeman's Diary, Part 2 |

1955 -- A Hole of My Own Making |

1955 -- The Dawn of Judo |

1955 -- The Heart | Hioki's mother

1955 -- The Wolves |

1955 -- The Maid's Kid |

1955 -- Ghost Story of Youth | Nanny at Okumura's

1954 -- A Billionaire |

1954 -- The Valley Between Love and Death | Tetsu Ishida

1954 -- The Street Without Sun | Aunt of Matsutaro

1954 -- Tomoshibi |

1953 -- Jūdai no yūwaku |

1953 -- Before Dawn | Ofuki

1953 -- A Japanese Tragedy | Ichizo's wife

1953 -- Yokubo |

1953 -- Miniature |

1953 -- A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land | Ohana

1952 -- Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu |

1952 -- Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to | Aunt Otora

1952 -- Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete | Fusako Kawai

1952 -- Beauty and the Thief | Mrs. Inokuma

1952 -- Children of Hiroshima | Otoyo

1952 -- Farewell to Spring | Old woman

1952 -- Become a Mother, Become a Woman | Hide

1951 -- The Bitch | Tami

1951 -- 限りなき情熱 |

1951 -- 男の哀愁 |

1951 -- Koibito | Mrs. Saeki

1950 -- Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom |

1950 -- Les Miserables I: God and the Devil |

1950 -- White Beast |

1950 -- Scandal | Yasu Hiruta

1937 -- Learn from Experience, Part Two |