Tanie Kitabayashi
Acting · Born 1911-05-21 · age 98 at death · 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.
Titles
My Neighbor Totoro
The Burmese Harp
Scandal
The Insect Woman
Intentions of Murder
Children of Hiroshima
Wrath of Daimajin
Odd Obsession
Rikyu
Conflagration
The Sun's Burial
Stakeout
Amagi Pass
Proof of the Man
Yomigaeri
A Japanese Tragedy
The Heart
The Human Bullet
Station
Letter from the Mountain
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Rainbow Kids
White Beast
Foundry Town
Suspicion
The Wolves
Never Give Up
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Our Town
My Second Brother
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
The Burmese Harp
Bad Girl
The Sands of Kurobe
The Three Undelivered Letters
Call from Darkness
Patience Has An End
All My Children
A Chain of Islands
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Koibito
A Story from Echigo
Darkness at Noon
Only on Mondays
Writhing Tongue
Apart from Life
White Snake Enchantment
Thousand Cranes
Miniature
Terror in the Streets
The Incident
Nomugi Pass
A Billionaire
The Human Wall
The Maid's Kid
Tora-san's Song of Love
The Third Will
Bonchi
But the Flesh is Weak
Gazing at Love and Death