
Tanie Kitabayashi
Where to watch Tanie Kitabayashi in United States. On screen since 1937. Licensed apps only — 24 titles we track below.
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
Granny (voice) · 1988

The Burmese Harp
1956

Scandal
Yasu Hiruta · 1950

The Insect Woman
Madam · 1963

Intentions of Murder
Kinu Takahashi · 1964

Children of Hiroshima
Otoyo · 1952

Wrath of Daimajin
Old Woman Kane · 1966

Odd Obsession
Hana · 1959

Rikyu
Mother · 1989

The Sun's Burial
Chika · 1960

Conflagration
Aki, Goichi's mother · 1958

Stakeout
1958

Amagi Pass
Tea house's old woman · 1983

Proof of the Man
1977

Yomigaeri
Saki Naito · 2003

A Japanese Tragedy
Ichizo's wife · 1953

The Human Bullet
Bookstore Owner's Wife · 1968

The Heart
Hioki's mother · 1955

Station
Masayo Mikami · 1981

Twilight of the Cockroaches
Torah (voice) · 1987

Letter from the Mountain
Oume · 2002

Rainbow Kids
Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa · 1991

Never Give Up
Kiyo Matsushita · 1978

White Beast
1950