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Tanie Kitabayashi

Tanie Kitabayashi

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

21/05/1911

Day of Death

27/04/2010
(99) years old

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan

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 Th... Read More

Known For

Musume no boken

Musume no boken

My Neighbor Totoro

My Neighbor Totoro

Red Bud and White Flower

Red Bud and White Flower

Never Give Up

Never Give Up

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

Rikyu

Rikyu

Jūdai no yūwaku

Jūdai no yūwaku

Dolls floating down the river

Dolls floating down the river

The Insect Woman

The Insect Woman

Koibito

Koibito

Filmography

Cast

2003

Resurrection

as Saki Naito

2002

Letter from the Mountain

as Oume

1991

Rainbow Kids

as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa

1989

Rikyu

as Mother

1988

My Neighbor Totoro

as Granny (voice)

1987

Twilight of the Cockroaches

as Torah (voice)

1985

The Burmese Harp

as Old Woman

1985

Love: Starting on a Journey

1985

Haze of Love

1985

Dangerous Women

as Mrs. Kinumura

1983

White Snake Enchantment

as Tane

1983

Our Teacher

1983

Tora-san's Song of Love

1983

Amagi Pass

as Tea house's old woman

1982

Suspicion

as Harue Shirakawa

1981

Station

as Masayo Mikami

1981

Call from Darkness

as Sukeno

1980

Writhing Tongue

as Akira's mother

1979

Gassan

1979

The Three Undelivered Letters

1979

Nomugi Pass

1978

Never Give Up

as Kiyo Matsushita

1977

Proof of the Man

1977

The Wild Daisy

as Tamiko's Grandmother

1976

The Possessed

1976

The Sea of Eden

1974

Kobayashi Takiji

1972

Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte

as Moko's mother

1972

The Golden Bat Shows Up

1972

My Voiceless Friends

1971

Price of Life

as Tome

1971

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - ...

1971

Patience Has An End

1971

A Woman Called En

1970

Pure Land, Poisoned Sea

as Goze / Narrator (voice)

1970

The Little Hero

1970

Oh, My Comrade!

as Harumi

1970

Terror in the Streets

as Shino

1970

River Without a Bridge Part 2

1970

Apart from Life

as Matsuko Fukuji

1969

Heat Wave Island

1969

Thousand Cranes

as 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

as Orin

1967

Journey to the North

as Hana Kanai

1966

Wrath of Daimajin

as Old Woman Kane

1966

A Windmill, Tulips and Love

1965

Blood and Sea

1965

A Chain of Islands

as Kikuko Sasaki

1965

Tale of Japanese Burglars

as Hayashida's mother

1965

The Start of Life

as Tomi Ishiguro

1964

Gazing at Love and Death

1964

Intentions of Murder

as Kinu Takahashi

1964

A Story from Echigo

1964

The Long Death

1964

Only on Mondays

as Yuka's mother

1964

Welcome, My Baby

as Yuki Nishizaka

1963

The Insect Woman

as Madam

1963

The Third Will

as Kimie

1963

Bad Girl

1963

All My Children

as Fusakichi's mother

1963

Beyond the Green Hills

as Shiraki, Teacher

1962

Children of Izu

1962

Ashita au hito

1962

Asu no hanayome

1962

The Young and Bad

1962

Red Bud and White Flower

1962

Foundry Town

as Ume

1962

Dolls floating down the river

as Fuku

1962

Ningen Gari

1962

Nippon no obaachan

as Kumi

1961

Buddha

as Sumi

1961

A Good Man, A Good Day

1961

Enraptured

1961

Blind Devotion

as Saoko

1961

Shokei zen'ya

1961

Marriageable Age

1960

The Sun's Burial

as Chika, Batasuke's wife

1960

Bonchi

1960

Sexy Sign Suki Suki Suki

1959

The Human Wall

1959

Odd Obsession

as Hana

1959

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Jap...

as Grandma Shigeko

1958

Musume no boken

1958

Conflagration

as Aki, Goichi's mother

1958

Stakeout

1958

Chance Meeting

as Tetsu Koyanagi

1957

But the Flesh is Weak

as Doctor

1957

Hole in One

as Suga Akabane

1956

Actress

1956

Saigo no sentō-ki

1956

Summer Storm

as Mitsu Asai

1956

The Shadow of Fear

1956

How Sorrowful

1956

Our Town

as Otaka

1956

Shiawase wa doko ni

as Kane

1956

Darkness at Noon

as Satoe Miyazaki

1956

Jigoku no hatoba

1956

Love is Lost

as Nobuyo

1956

The Burmese Harp

1955

The Motherless

1955

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

1955

The Dawn of Judo

1955

A Hole of My Own Making

1955

The Heart

as Hioki's mother

1955

The Wolves

1955

The Maid's Kid

1955

Ghost Story of Youth

as Nanny at Okumura's

1954

Victory or Defeat

1954

A Billionaire

1954

The Valley Between Love and Death

as Tetsu Ishida

1954

The Street Without Sun

as Aunt of Matsutaro

1954

Tomoshibi

1953

Jūdai no yūwaku

1953

Before Dawn

as Ofuki

1953

A Japanese Tragedy

as Ichizo's wife

1953

Yokubo

1953

Miniature

1953

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land

as Ohana

1953

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

1952

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

1952

Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to

as Aunt Otora

1952

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete

as Fusako Kawai

1952

Beauty and the Thief

as Mrs. Inokuma

1952

Children of Hiroshima

as Otoyo

1952

Farewell to Spring

as Old woman

1952

Become a Mother, Become a Woman

as Hide

1951

The Bitch

as Tami

1951

限りなき情熱

1951

男の哀愁

1951

Koibito

as Mrs. Saeki

1950

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Fr...

1950

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

1950

White Beast

1950

Scandal

as Yasu Hiruta

1937

Learn from Experience, Part Two