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
The Sun's Burial
Conflagration
Stakeout
Amagi Pass
Yomigaeri
Proof of the Man
A Japanese Tragedy
The Human Bullet
Station
The Heart
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Letter from the Mountain
Rainbow Kids
Never Give Up
White Beast
Foundry Town
The Wolves
Suspicion
The Burmese Harp
Our Town
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
The Three Undelivered Letters
My Second Brother
The Sands of Kurobe
Call from Darkness
Patience Has An End
Bad Girl
Koibito
All My Children
Writhing Tongue
A Chain of Islands
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Apart from Life
Only on Mondays
White Snake Enchantment
A Story from Echigo
Darkness at Noon
A Billionaire
The Human Wall
Terror in the Streets
Nomugi Pass
Miniature
Thousand Cranes
The Incident
The Legend of Sayo
Bonchi
Heat Wave Island
Love: Starting on a Journey
The Maid's Kid
But the Flesh is Weak