Tanie Kitabayashi

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.

Cast

Musume no boken

My Neighbor Totoro

(Granny (voice))

Red Bud and White Flower

Never Give Up

(Kiyo Matsushita)

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

Rikyu

(Mother)

Jūdai no yūwaku

Dolls floating down the river

(Fuku)

The Insect Woman

(Madam)

Koibito

(Mrs. Saeki)

Beauty and the Thief

(Mrs. Inokuma)

Farewell to Spring

(Old woman)

Foundry Town

(Ume)

A Japanese Tragedy

(Ichizo's wife)

Resurrection

(Saki Naito)

White Beast

Children of Hiroshima

(Otoyo)

Conflagration

(Aki, Goichi's mother)

Apart from Life

(Matsuko Fukuji)

The Human Bullet

All My Children

(Fusakichi's mother)

Only on Mondays

(Yuka's mother)

Letter from the Mountain

(Oume)

Station

(Masayo Mikami)

The Heart

(Hioki's mother)

Hole in One

(Suga Akabane)

Blood and Sea

A Billionaire

River Without a Bridge Part 2

Writhing Tongue

(Akira's mother)

Gassan

A Woman Called En

The Greatest Challenge of All

The Wild Daisy

(Tamiko's Grandmother)

Bonchi

Saigo no sentō-ki

Asu no hanayome

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land

(Ohana)

Ashita au hito

男の哀愁

The Dawn of Judo

Dorei kōjō

Kobayashi Takiji

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

Wrath of Daimajin

(Old Woman Kane)

Journey to the North

(Hana Kanai)

限りなき情熱

Heat Wave Island

Scandal

(Yasu Hiruta)

Pure Land, Poisoned Sea

(Goze / Narrator (voice))

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion

The Sun's Burial

(Chika, Batasuke's wife)

River Without a Bridge

White Snake Enchantment

(Tane)

Buddha

(Sumi)

The Sands of Kurobe

The Golden Bat Shows Up

The Burmese Harp

(Old Woman)

Rainbow Kids

(Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa)

The Possessed

How Sorrowful

Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to

(Aunt Otora)

Our Town

(Otaka)

A Hole of My Own Making

The Little Hero

The Motherless

Before Dawn

(Ofuki)

The Long Death

Tale of Japanese Burglars

(Hayashida's mother)

Beyond the Green Hills

(Shiraki, Teacher)

Odd Obsession

(Hana)

Stakeout

Call from Darkness

(Sukeno)

The Human Wall

A Windmill, Tulips and Love

Love: Starting on a Journey

Enraptured

The Maid's Kid

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

(Grandma Shigeko)

A Story from Echigo

The Wolves

Patience Has An End

Bad Girl

Amagi Pass

(Tea house's old woman)

The Street Without Sun

(Aunt of Matsutaro)

Our Teacher

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete

(Fusako Kawai)

Welcome, My Baby

(Yuki Nishizaka)

The Final Winner?

Suspicion

(Harue Shirakawa)

Blind Devotion

(Saoko)

Terror in the Streets

(Shino)

The Sea of Eden

Haze of Love

Darkness at Noon

(Satoe Miyazaki)

The Shadow of Fear

Twilight of the Cockroaches

(Torah (voice))

Love is Lost

(Nobuyo)

Chance Meeting

(Tetsu Koyanagi)

The Start of Life

(Tomi Ishiguro)

The Flesh Is Weak

(Doctor)

Oh, My Comrade!

(Harumi)

Marriageable Age

The Burmese Harp

Nippon no obaachan

(Kumi)

Intentions of Murder

(Kinu Takahashi)

The Bitch

(Tami)

A Chain of Islands

(Kikuko Sasaki)

Summer Storm

(Mitsu Asai)

Learn from Experience, Part Two

The Young and Bad

Ningen Gari

Nomugi Pass

Gazing at Love and Death

Proof of the Man

Miniature

Shiawase wa doko ni

(Kane)

The Third Will

(Kimie)

Thousand Cranes

(Toyo)

Children of Izu

Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte

(Moko's mother)

My Voiceless Friends

The Three Undelivered Letters

Tora-san's Song of Love

Become a Mother, Become a Woman

(Hide)

Song of Love

(Orin)

Yokubo

Tomoshibi

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

A Good Man, A Good Day

Price of Life

(Tome)

Jigoku no hatoba

Actress

Dangerous Women

(Mrs. Kinumura)

The Valley Between Love and Death

(Tetsu Ishida)

Ghost Story of Youth

(Nanny at Okumura's)

おくさまは18歳

(Asuka's grandmother)

Mayuko hitori

(加野のぶ)