Tanie Kitabayashi
Biography
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.
Filmography
Yomigaeri
2003
as Saki Naito
Letter from the Mountain
2002
as Oume
Rainbow Kids
1991
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
Rikyu
1989
as Mother
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
as Granny (voice)
Yamada Village Waltz
1988
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
as Torah (voice)
The Burmese Harp
1985
as Old Woman
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
- No poster
Haze of Love
1985
Dangerous Women
1985
as Mrs. Kinumura
White Snake Enchantment
1983
as Tane
Our Teacher
1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
Amagi Pass
1983
as Tea house's old woman
The Legend of Sayo
1982
Suspicion
1982
as Harue Shirakawa
Station
1981
as Masayo Mikami
Call from Darkness
1981
as Sukeno
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
1980
Writhing Tongue
1980
as Akira's mother
Gassan
1979
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979
Nomugi Pass
1979