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
Musume no boken
My Neighbor Totoro Granny (voice)
Red Bud and White Flower
Never Give Up Kiyo Matsushita
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Rikyu Mother
Jūdai no yūwaku
Dolls floating down the river Fuku
The Insect Woman Madam
Koibito Mrs. Saeki
Beauty and the Thief Mrs. Inokuma
Farewell to Spring Old woman
Foundry Town Ume
A Japanese Tragedy Ichizo's wife
Resurrection Saki Naito
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
Only on Mondays Yuka's mother
Letter from the Mountain Oume
Station Masayo Mikami
The Heart Hioki's mother
Hole in One Suga Akabane
Blood and Sea
A Billionaire
River Without a Bridge Part 2
Writhing Tongue Akira's mother
Gassan
A Woman Called En
The Greatest Challenge of All
The Wild Daisy Tamiko's Grandmother
Bonchi
Saigo no sentō-ki
Asu no hanayome
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land Ohana
Ashita au hito
男の哀愁
The Dawn of Judo
Dorei kōjō
Kobayashi Takiji
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Wrath of Daimajin Old Woman Kane
Journey to the North Hana Kanai
限りなき情熱
Heat Wave Island
Scandal Yasu Hiruta
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea Goze / Narrator (voice)
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
The Sun's Burial Chika, Batasuke's wife
River Without a Bridge
White Snake Enchantment Tane
Buddha Sumi
The Sands of Kurobe
The Golden Bat Shows Up
The Burmese Harp Old Woman
Rainbow Kids Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
The Possessed
How Sorrowful
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to Aunt Otora
Our Town Otaka
A Hole of My Own Making
The Little Hero
The Motherless
The Long Death
Before Dawn Ofuki
Tale of Japanese Burglars Hayashida's mother
Beyond the Green Hills Shiraki, Teacher
Stakeout
Odd Obsession Hana
Call from Darkness Sukeno
The Human Wall
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
Love: Starting on a Journey
Enraptured
The Maid's Kid
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan Grandma Shigeko
A Story from Echigo
The Wolves
Patience Has An End
Bad Girl
Amagi Pass Tea house's old woman
The Street Without Sun Aunt of Matsutaro
Our Teacher
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete Fusako Kawai
Welcome, My Baby Yuki Nishizaka
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
The Shadow of Fear
Twilight of the Cockroaches Torah (voice)
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
The Burmese Harp
Nippon no obaachan Kumi
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
Dangerous Women Mrs. Kinumura
The Valley Between Love and Death Tetsu Ishida
Ghost Story of Youth Nanny at Okumura's
Shows
おくさまは18歳 Asuka's grandmother
Mayuko hitori 加野のぶ
