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
My Neighbor Totoro
Granny (voice)
Never Give Up
Kiyo Matsushita
Rikyu
Mother
The Insect Woman
Madam
How Sorrowful
Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow
Ume
A Japanese Tragedy
Ichizo's wife
White Beast
Children of Hiroshima
Otoyo
Conflagration
Aki, Goichi's mother
The Human Bullet
Apart from Life
Matsuko Fukuji
All My Children
Fusakichi's mother
Letter from the Mountain
Oume
Only on Mondays
Yuka's mother
Station
Masayo Mikami
The Heart
Hioki's mother
A Billionaire
Hole in One
Suga Akabane
Writhing Tongue
Akira's mother
Gassan
The Wild Daisy
Tamiko's Grandmother
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Ohana
Wrath of Daimajin
Old Woman Kane
Heat Wave Island
Scandal
Yasu Hiruta
The Sun's Burial
Chika, Batasuke's wife
White Snake Enchantment
Tane
Buddha
Sumi
The Burmese Harp
Old Woman
Rainbow Kids
Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
The Possessed
The Little Hero
A Hole of My Own Making
The Long Death
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Hayashida's mother
Our Town
Otaka
The Motherless
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
Aunt Otora
Before Dawn
Ofuki
Stakeout
Odd Obsession
Hana
Bad Girl
Beyond the Green Hills
Shiraki, Teacher
The Human Wall
Call from Darkness
Sukeno
Love: Starting on a Journey
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
Enraptured
The Maid's Kid
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Grandma Shigeko
A Story from Echigo
Patience Has An End
Amagi Pass
Tea house's old woman
The Street Without Sun
Aunt of Matsutaro
Our Teacher
Welcome, My Baby
Yuki Nishizaka
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Fusako Kawai
The Final Winner?
Suspicion
Harue Shirakawa
Blind Devotion
Saoko
Terror in the Streets
Shino
The Sea of Eden
Haze of Love
Darkness at Noon
Satoe Miyazaki
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Torah (voice)
The Shadow of Fear
Love is Lost
Nobuyo
Chance Meeting
Tetsu Koyanagi
The Start of Life
Tomi Ishiguro
The Flesh Is Weak
Doctor
Oh, My Comrade!
Harumi
Marriageable Age
Nippon no obaachan
Kumi
The Burmese Harp
Intentions of Murder
Kinu Takahashi
The Bitch
Tami
A Chain of Islands
Kikuko Sasaki
Summer Storm
Mitsu Asai
Learn from Experience, Part Two
The Young and Bad
Ningen Gari
Nomugi Pass
Gazing at Love and Death
Proof of the Man
Miniature
Shiawase wa doko ni
Kane
The Third Will
Kimie
Thousand Cranes
Toyo
Children of Izu
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Moko's mother
My Voiceless Friends
The Three Undelivered Letters
Tora-san's Song of Love
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
Hide
Song of Love
Orin
Yokubo
Tomoshibi
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
A Good Man, A Good Day
Price of Life
Tome
Jigoku no hatoba
Actress
Red Bud and White Flower
Koibito
Mrs. Saeki
Beauty and the Thief
Mrs. Inokuma
Farewell to Spring
Old woman
River Without a Bridge Part 2
Greatest Challenge of All
Bonchi
Saigo no sentō-ki
男の哀愁
The Dawn of Judo
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
River Without a Bridge
Musume no boken
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Jūdai no yūwaku
Dolls floating down the river
Fuku
Resurrection
Saki Naito
Blood and Sea
A Woman Called En
Asu no hanayome
Ashita au hito
Dorei kōjō
Kobayashi Takiji
Journey to the North
Hana Kanai
限りなき情熱
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
Goze / Narrator (voice)
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
The Sands of Kurobe
The Golden Bat Shows Up
Shows
おくさまは18歳
Asuka's grandmother
Mayuko hitori
加野のぶ