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Tanie Kitabayashi

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Tanie Kitabayashi

Born May 21, 1911 in Tokyo, JapanDied April 27, 2010166 films

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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My Neighbor Totoro posterFirst watchMy Neighbor Totoro19888.1as Granny (voice)Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
The Burmese Harp poster7.8The Burmese Harp1956Scandal poster6.9Scandal1950The Insect Woman poster7.2The Insect Woman1963Intentions of Murder poster7.0Intentions of Murder1964

Filmography

166 films as actor
  1. 2003YomigaeriSaki Naito
  2. 2002Letter from the MountainOume
  3. 1991Rainbow KidsMrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
  4. 1989RikyuMother
  5. 1988My Neighbor TotoroGranny (voice)
  6. 1988Yamada Village Waltz
  7. 1987Twilight of the CockroachesTorah (voice)
  8. 1985The Burmese HarpOld Woman
  9. 1985Love: Starting on a Journey
  10. 1985Haze of Love
  11. 1985Dangerous WomenMrs. Kinumura
  12. 1983White Snake EnchantmentTane
  13. 1983Our Teacher
  14. 1983Tora-san's Song of Love
  15. 1983Amagi PassTea house's old woman
  16. 1982The Legend of Sayo
  17. 1982SuspicionHarue Shirakawa
  18. 1981StationMasayo Mikami
  19. 1981Call from DarknessSukeno
  20. 1980Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
  21. 1980Writhing TongueAkira's mother
  22. 1979Gassan
  23. 1979The Three Undelivered Letters
  24. 1979Nomugi Pass
  25. 1978Never Give UpKiyo Matsushita
  26. 1978The IncidentKane Shinozaki
  27. 1977Proof of the Man
  28. 1977The Wild DaisyTamiko's Grandmother
  29. 1976The Possessed
  30. 1976The Sea of Eden
  31. 1974Kobayashi Takiji
  32. 1972Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatteMoko's mother
  33. 1972Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
  34. 1972My Voiceless Friends
  35. 1972Umarekawatta TamegorōUma Ōnuma
  36. 1971Price of LifeTome
  37. 1971Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
  38. 1971Patience Has An End
  39. 1971A Woman Called En
  40. 1970The Little Hero
  41. 1970Oh, My Comrade!Harumi
  42. 1970Terror in the StreetsShino
  43. 1970River Without a Bridge Part 2
  44. 1970Apart from LifeMatsuko Fukuji
  45. 1969Heat Wave Island
  46. 1969Thousand CranesToyo
  47. 1969River Without a Bridge
  48. 1968The Human BulletBookstore Owner's Wife
  49. 1968The Final Winner?
  50. 1968The Sands of Kurobe
  51. 1968Slave Factory
  52. 1967The Last LadyTsuru
  53. 1967The Greatest Challenge of All
  54. 1967Song of LoveOrin
  55. 1967Journey to the NorthHana Kanai
  56. 1966Wrath of DaimajinOld Woman Kane
  57. 1966A Windmill, Tulips and Love
  58. 1966She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
  59. 1965Trigger Happy Romeo
  60. 1965Blood and Sea
  61. 1965A Chain of IslandsKikuko Sasaki
  62. 1965Tale of Japanese BurglarsHayashida's mother
  63. 1965The Start of LifeTomi Ishiguro
  64. 1965Ane to imôtoItoko
  65. 1964Gazing at Love and Death
  66. 1964Intentions of MurderKinu Takahashi
  67. 1964A Story from Echigo
  68. 1964The Long Death
  69. 1964Only on MondaysYuka's mother
  70. 1964Welcome, My BabyYuki Nishizaka
  71. 1963Daybreak ChorusOld Woman
  72. 1963The Insect WomanMadam
  73. 1963The Third WillKimie
  74. 1963Bad Girl
  75. 1963All My ChildrenFusakichi's mother
  76. 1963Beyond the Green HillsShiraki, Teacher
  77. 1962Children of Izu
  78. 1962Ashita au hito
  79. 1962Asu no hanayome
  80. 1962The Young and Bad
  81. 1962Red Bud and White Flower
  82. 1962Foundry TownUme
  83. 1962Dolls floating down the riverFuku
  84. 1962Ningen Gari
  85. 1962Nippon no obaachanKumi
  86. 1961BuddhaSumi
  87. 1961A Good Man, A Good Day
  88. 1961Enraptured
  89. 1961The Famous Wanderer
  90. 1961小父さんありがとう
  91. 1961Blind DevotionSaoko
  92. 1961Shokei zen'ya
  93. 1961Marriageable Age
  94. 1960Yakuza sensei
  95. 1960The Sun's BurialChika
  96. 1960Bonchi
  97. 1960The Grave Tells All
  98. 1959My Second Brother
  99. 1959The Human Wall
  100. 1959Odd ObsessionHana
  101. 1959Paper PigeonYuki Kashiwabara
  102. 1959Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in JapanGrandma Shigeko
  103. 1958Musume no boken
  104. 1958ConflagrationAki, Goichi's mother
  105. 1958Stakeout
  106. 1958Chance MeetingTetsu Koyanagi
  107. 1958Omoni to shounen
  108. 1957But the Flesh is WeakDoctor
  109. 1957Hole in OneSuga Akabane
  110. 1956Actress
  111. 1956Saigo no sentō-ki
  112. 1956Summer StormMitsu Asai
  113. 1956The Shadow of Fear
  114. 1956How Sorrowful
  115. 1956Our TownOtaka
  116. 1956Hana no unga
  117. 1956Shiawase wa doko niKane
  118. 1956Darkness at NoonSatoe Miyazaki
  119. 1956Jigoku no hatoba
  120. 1956Love is LostNobuyo