Tanie Kitabayashi
Birthday: 1911-05-21
Deathday: 2010-04-27
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned
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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2003-01-18 | Resurrection | Saki Naito |
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2002-10-05 | Letter from the Mountain | Oume |
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1991-01-15 | Rainbow Kids | Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa |
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1989-09-15 | Rikyu | Mother |
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1988-04-16 | My Neighbor Totoro | Granny (voice) |
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1987-11-21 | Twilight of the Cockroaches | Torah (voice) |
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1985-07-20 | The Burmese Harp | Old Woman |
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1985-01-26 | Love: Starting on a Journey | |
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1985-01-03 | Haze of Love | |
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1985-01-01 | Dangerous Women | Mrs. Kinumura |
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1983-11-12 | White Snake Enchantment | Tane |
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1983-08-24 | Our Teacher | |
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1983-08-06 | Tora-san's Song of Love | |
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1983-02-19 | Amagi Pass | Tea house's old woman |
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1982-09-11 | Suspicion | Harue Shirakawa |
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1981-11-07 | Station | Masayo Mikami |
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1981-09-26 | Call from Darkness | Sukeno |
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1980-11-22 | Writhing Tongue | Akira's mother |
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1979-10-20 | Gassan | |
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1979-10-06 | The Three Undelivered Letters | |
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1979-06-30 | Nomugi Pass | |
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1978-10-07 | Never Give Up | Kiyo Matsushita |
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1977-10-08 | Proof of the Man | |
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1977-07-09 | The Wild Daisy | Tamiko's Grandmother |
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1976-10-16 | The Possessed | |
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1976-04-24 | The Sea of Eden | |
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1974-02-20 | Kobayashi Takiji | |
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1972-06-12 | Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte | Moko's mother |
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1972-05-13 | The Golden Bat Shows Up | |
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1972-04-29 | My Voiceless Friends | |
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1971-07-24 | Price of Life | Tome |
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1971-07-18 | Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion | |
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1971-06-25 | Patience Has An End | |
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1971-05-29 | A Woman Called En | |
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1970-09-23 | The Little Hero | |
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1970-09-19 | Oh, My Comrade! | Harumi |
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1970-07-04 | Terror in the Streets | Shino |
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1970-04-25 | River Without a Bridge Part 2 | |
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1970-01-30 | Apart from Life | Matsuko Fukuji |
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1969-10-29 | Heat Wave Island | |
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1969-04-19 | Thousand Cranes | Toyo |
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1969-02-01 | River Without a Bridge | |
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1968-10-22 | The Human Bullet | |
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1968-08-28 | The Final Winner? | |
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1968-03-01 | The Sands of Kurobe | |
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1968-01-25 | Dorei kōjō | |
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1967-08-05 | The Greatest Challenge of All | |
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1967-04-29 | Song of Love | Orin |
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1967-01-03 | Journey to the North | Hana Kanai |
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1966-12-10 | Wrath of Daimajin | Old Woman Kane |
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1966-06-25 | A Windmill, Tulips and Love | |
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1965-10-01 | Blood and Sea | |
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1965-05-26 | A Chain of Islands | Kikuko Sasaki |
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1965-05-01 | Tale of Japanese Burglars | Hayashida's mother |
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1965-04-29 | The Start of Life | Tomi Ishiguro |
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1964-09-19 | Gazing at Love and Death | |
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1964-06-28 | Intentions of Murder | Kinu Takahashi |
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1964-05-09 | A Story from Echigo | |
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1964-04-12 | The Long Death | |
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1964-03-04 | Only on Mondays | Yuka's mother |
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1964-02-23 | Welcome, My Baby | Yuki Nishizaka |
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1963-11-16 | The Insect Woman | Madam |
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1963-03-31 | The Third Will | Kimie |
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1963-03-16 | Bad Girl | |
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1963-02-01 | All My Children | Fusakichi's mother |
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1963-01-03 | Beyond the Green Hills | Shiraki, Teacher |
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1962-11-21 | Children of Izu | |
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1962-09-16 | Ashita au hito | |
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1962-09-09 | Asu no hanayome | |
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1962-09-09 | The Young and Bad | |
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1962-06-10 | Red Bud and White Flower | |
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1962-04-08 | Foundry Town | Ume |
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1962-03-03 | Dolls floating down the river | Fuku |
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1962-01-23 | Ningen Gari | |
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1962-01-03 | Nippon no obaachan | Kumi |
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1961-10-31 | Buddha | Sumi |
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1961-08-13 | A Good Man, A Good Day | |
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1961-04-18 | Enraptured | |
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1961-03-08 | Blind Devotion | Saoko |
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1961-01-14 | Marriageable Age | |
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1960-08-09 | The Sun's Burial | Chika, Batasuke's wife |
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1960-04-14 | Bonchi | |
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1959-10-18 | The Human Wall | |
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1959-06-23 | Odd Obsession | Hana |
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1959-03-29 | Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan | Grandma Shigeko |
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1958-11-01 | Musume no boken | |
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1958-09-22 | Conflagration | Aki, Goichi's mother |
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1958-01-15 | Stakeout | |
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1958-01-15 | Chance Meeting | Tetsu Koyanagi |
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1957-10-29 | The Flesh Is Weak | Doctor |
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1957-09-15 | Hole in One | Suga Akabane |
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1956-11-27 | Actress | |
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1956-10-17 | Saigo no sentō-ki | |
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1956-10-01 | Summer Storm | Mitsu Asai |
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1956-09-11 | The Shadow of Fear | |
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1956-09-07 | How Sorrowful | |
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1956-08-28 | Our Town | Otaka |
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1956-07-19 | Shiawase wa doko ni | Kane |
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1956-03-26 | Darkness at Noon | Satoe Miyazaki |
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1956-03-04 | Jigoku no hatoba | |
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1956-02-05 | Love is Lost | Nobuyo |
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1956-01-21 | The Burmese Harp | |
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1955-12-04 | The Motherless | |
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1955-11-16 | Policeman's Diary, Part 2 | |
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1955-09-28 | The Dawn of Judo | |
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1955-09-28 | A Hole of My Own Making | |
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1955-08-31 | The Heart | Hioki's mother |
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1955-07-03 | The Wolves | |
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1955-06-28 | The Maid's Kid | |
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1955-04-19 | Ghost Story of Youth | Nanny at Okumura's |
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1954-11-22 | A Billionaire | |
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1954-09-21 | The Valley Between Love and Death | Tetsu Ishida |
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1954-06-24 | The Street Without Sun | Aunt of Matsutaro |
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1954-06-22 | Tomoshibi | |
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1953-12-29 | Jūdai no yūwaku | |
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1953-10-13 | Before Dawn | Ofuki |
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1953-06-17 | A Japanese Tragedy | Ichizo's wife |
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1953-05-13 | Yokubo | |
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1953-04-01 | Miniature | |
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1953-02-20 | A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land | Ohana |
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1952-11-06 | Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu | |
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1952-11-04 | Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to | Aunt Otora |
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1952-10-09 | Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete | Fusako Kawai |
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1952-09-22 | Beauty and the Thief | Mrs. Inokuma |
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1952-08-06 | Children of Hiroshima | Otoyo |
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1952-03-28 | Farewell to Spring | Old woman |
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1952-01-17 | Become a Mother, Become a Woman | Hide |
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1951-08-10 | The Bitch | Tami |
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1951-06-01 | 限りなき情熱 | |
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1951-04-13 | 男の哀愁 | |
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1951-03-10 | Koibito | Mrs. Saeki |
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1950-11-14 | Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom | |
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1950-11-03 | Les Miserables I: God and the Devil | |
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1950-06-03 | White Beast | |
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1950-04-26 | Scandal | Yasu Hiruta |
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1937-12-18 | Learn from Experience, Part Two |