Acting credits
142
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Tanie Kitabayashi
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 140Series: 2
TMDB ID: 55666
IMDb ID: nm0457498
Known for: Acting
Born: May 21, 1911
Died: April 27, 2010
Age: 98
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1937 - 2003
Years active: 67
Average TMDB rating: 7.06
Wikidata: Q3547309
Also known as
Таниэ Китабаяси • 北村谷栄 • 北林 谷栄
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Tanie Kitabayashi.
5.7
Resurrection
as Saki Naito
2003 Movie
8.4
Letter from the Mountain
as Oume
2002 Movie
6.4
Rainbow Kids
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
1991 Movie
7.5
Rikyu
as Mother
1989 Movie
8.1
My Neighbor Totoro
as Granny (voice)
1988 Movie
Yamada Village Waltz
1988 Movie
5.8
Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Torah (voice)
1987 Movie
5.2
The Burmese Harp
as Old Woman
1985 Movie
2.5
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985 Movie
Dangerous Women
as Mrs. Kinumura
1985 Movie
4.7
White Snake Enchantment
as Tane
1983 Movie
Our Teacher
1983 Movie
8.0
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983 Movie
6.3
Amagi Pass
as Tea house's old woman
1983 Movie
7.0
Suspicion
as Harue Shirakawa
1982 Movie
6.1
Station
as Masayo Mikami
1981 Movie
5.7
Call from Darkness
as Sukeno
1981 Movie
6.2
Writhing Tongue
as Akira's mother
1980 Movie
Gassan
1979 Movie
6.0
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979 Movie
6.3
Nomugi Pass
1979 Movie
6.0
Never Give Up
as Kiyo Matsushita
1978 Movie
6.3
The Incident
as Kane Shinozaki
1978 Movie
7.6
Proof of the Man
1977 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Tanie Kitabayashi.
