Tanie Kitabayashi
Actor
- Born
- May 21, 1911 · Tokyo, Japan
- Died
- April 27, 2010 (age 98)
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.
Known for
My Neighbor Totoro
April 16, 1988
The Burmese Harp
January 21, 1956
Scandal
April 26, 1950
The Insect Woman
November 16, 1963
Intentions of Murder
June 28, 1964
Children of Hiroshima
August 6, 1952
Wrath of Daimajin
December 10, 1966
Odd Obsession
June 23, 1959
Rikyu
September 15, 1989
The Sun's Burial
August 9, 1960
Conflagration
August 19, 1958
Proof of the Man
October 8, 1977
Acting170
- 2003Yomigaeri as Saki Naito
- 2002Letter from the Mountain as Oume
- 1991Rainbow Kids as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
- 1989Rikyu as Mother
- 1988My Neighbor Totoro as Granny (voice)
- 1988Yamada Village Waltz
- 1987Twilight of the Cockroaches as Torah (voice)
- 1985The Burmese Harp as Old Woman
- 1985Love: Starting on a Journey
- 1985Haze of Love
- 1985