Tanie Kitabayashi
Born: 1911-05-21
From: Tokyo, Japan
About: 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.
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Ohana
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Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
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Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
Goze / Narrator (voice)
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
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Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
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Rainbow Kids
Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
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Aunt Otora
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
Hayashida's mother
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Beyond the Green Hills
Shiraki, Teacher
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Grandma Shigeko
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The Street Without Sun
Aunt of Matsutaro
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Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Fusako Kawai
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Twilight of the Cockroaches
Torah (voice)
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Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
Moko's mother
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The Valley Between Love and Death
Tetsu Ishida
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Ghost Story of Youth
Nanny at Okumura's
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