
Tanie Kitabayashi
Born May 21, 1911 · Tokyo, Japan
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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Inhibited Love

Station

Yomigaeri

White Snake Enchantment

The Burmese Harp

Rikyu

Outlaw

The Insect Woman

Scandal

Shinzōyaburi no oka

Proof of the Man

Odd Obsession

The Incident

Rainbow Kids

Amagi Pass

The Human Bullet

Stakeout

Love: Starting on a Journey

Only on Mondays

The Sun's Burial

Conflagration

Never Give Up

Children of Hiroshima

Darkness at Noon

The Sands of Kurobe

Tale of Japanese Burglars

The Scarlet Bat

Intentions of Murder

A Story from Echigo

Twilight of the Cockroaches

Buddha

Nomugi Pass

Wrath of Daimajin

The Three Undelivered Letters

The Wolves

Bonchi

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

Suspicion

Thousand Cranes

My Second Brother

Foundry Town

Before the Dawn

Tora-san's Song of Love

Summer Storm

Letter from the Mountain

A Good Man, A Good Day

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land

A Japanese Tragedy

The Valley Between Love and Death

The Third Will

Ane to imôto

Miniature

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

A Girl Who Delivers Happiness

The Maid's Kid

A Woman Called En

Youth

Nippon no obaachan

A Chain of Islands

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete

The Shadow of Fear

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

Bad Girl

Call from Darkness

Gazing at Love and Death

The Heart

Dangerous Women

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

The Legend of Sayo

The Street Without Sun

The Burmese Harp

The Young and Bad

A Billionaire

Slave Factory

Learn from Experience, Part Two

Heat Wave Island

Writhing Tongue

Sisters

The Human Wall

Yakuza sensei

The Possessed

Umarekawatta Tamegorō

Blind Devotion

Ghost Story of Youth

My Voiceless Friends

Desire

Saigo no sentō-ki

Actress

Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte

White Beast

The Grave Tells All

Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul

Beauty and the Thief

Hana no unga

The Greatest Challenge of All

Ningen Gari

A Hole of My Own Making

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

River Without a Bridge Part 2

The Sea of Eden

Journey to the North

But the Flesh is Weak

Patience Has An End

Song of Love

Beyond the Green Hills

Red Bud and White Flower

The Bitch

River Without a Bridge

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion

Our Teacher

Our Town

Hole in One

Apart from Life

The Wild Daisy

Price of Life

The Little Hero

The Last Lady

Love is Lost

Blood and Sea

限りなき情熱

The Famous Wanderer

Marriageable Age

Asu no hanayome

Chance Meeting

Farewell to Spring

The Start of Life

The Final Winner?

The Long Death

Become a Mother, Become a Woman

Tomoshibi

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

Trigger Happy Romeo

Dolls floating down the river

Terror in the Streets

Welcome, My Baby

Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here

Koibito

Koga Manshion

Paper Pigeon

All My Children

Jūdai no yūwaku

Daybreak Chorus

Children of Izu

Musume no boken

Ashita au hito

男の哀愁

Jigoku no hatoba

Shiawase wa doko ni

Oh, My Comrade!

The Dawn of Judo

Kobayashi Takiji

Victory or Defeat

Yamada Village Waltz

Shokei zen'ya

Gassan




