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.
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)