Birthday
1911/05/21
Day of death
2010/04/27 (99 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Also know as
Таниэ Китабаяси, 北村谷栄, 北林 谷栄
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 ...Read more
(1958) Musume no boken
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(1988) My Neighbor Totoro
as Granny (voice)
(1962) Red Bud and White Flower
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(1978) Never Give Up
as Kiyo Matsushita
(1952) Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
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(1989) Rikyu
as Mother
(1953) Jūdai no yūwaku
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(1962) Dolls floating down the river
as Fuku
(1963) The Insect Woman
as Madam
(1951) Koibito
as Mrs. Saeki
(1952) Beauty and the Thief
as Mrs. Inokuma
(1952) Farewell to Spring
as Old woman
(1962) Foundry Town
as Ume
(1953) A Japanese Tragedy
as Ichizo's wife
(2003) Resurrection
as Saki Naito
(1950) White Beast
as ---
(1952) Children of Hiroshima
as Otoyo
(1958) Conflagration
as Aki, Goichi's mother
(1968) The Human Bullet
as ---
(1970) Apart from Life
as Matsuko Fukuji
(1963) All My Children
as Fusakichi's mother
(1964) Only on Mondays
as Yuka's mother
(2002) Letter from the Mountain
as Oume
(1981) Station
as Masayo Mikami
(1955) The Heart
as Hioki's mother
(1957) Hole in One
as Suga Akabane
(1965) Blood and Sea
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(1954) A Billionaire
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(1970) River Without a Bridge Part 2
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(1980) Writhing Tongue
as Akira's mother
(1979) Gassan
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(1971) A Woman Called En
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(1967) The Greatest Challenge of All
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(1977) The Wild Daisy
as Tamiko's Grandmother
(1960) Bonchi
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(1956) Saigo no sentō-ki
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(1962) Asu no hanayome
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(1953) A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
as Ohana
(1962) Ashita au hito
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(1951) 男の哀愁
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(1955) The Dawn of Judo
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(1968) Dorei kōjō
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(1974) Kobayashi Takiji
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(1950) Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
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(1950) Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
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(1966) Wrath of Daimajin
as Old Woman Kane
(1967) Journey to the North
as Hana Kanai
(1951) 限りなき情熱
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(1969) Heat Wave Island
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(1950) Scandal
as Yasu Hiruta
(1970) Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
as Goze / Narrator (voice)
(1971) Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
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(1960) The Sun's Burial
as Chika, Batasuke's wife
(1969) River Without a Bridge
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(1983) White Snake Enchantment
as Tane
(1961) Buddha
as Sumi
(1968) The Sands of Kurobe
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(1972) The Golden Bat Shows Up
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(1985) The Burmese Harp
as Old Woman
(1991) Rainbow Kids
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
(1976) The Possessed
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(1956) How Sorrowful
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(1952) Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
as Aunt Otora
(1956) Our Town
as Otaka
(1955) A Hole of My Own Making
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(1970) The Little Hero
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(1955) The Motherless
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(1964) The Long Death
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(1953) Before Dawn
as Ofuki
(1965) Tale of Japanese Burglars
as Hayashida's mother
(1963) Beyond the Green Hills
as Shiraki, Teacher
(1958) Stakeout
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(1959) Odd Obsession
as Hana
(1981) Call from Darkness
as Sukeno
(1959) The Human Wall
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(1966) A Windmill, Tulips and Love
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(1985) Love: Starting on a Journey
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(1961) Enraptured
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(1955) The Maid's Kid
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(1959) Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as Grandma Shigeko
(1964) A Story from Echigo
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(1955) The Wolves
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(1971) Patience Has An End
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(1963) Bad Girl
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(1983) Amagi Pass
as Tea house's old woman
(1954) The Street Without Sun
as Aunt of Matsutaro
(1983) Our Teacher
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(1952) Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
as Fusako Kawai
(1964) Welcome, My Baby
as Yuki Nishizaka
(1968) The Final Winner?
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(1982) Suspicion
as Harue Shirakawa
(1961) Blind Devotion
as Saoko
(1970) Terror in the Streets
as Shino
(1976) The Sea of Eden
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(1985) Haze of Love
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(1956) Darkness at Noon
as Satoe Miyazaki
(1956) The Shadow of Fear
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(1987) Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Torah (voice)
(1956) Love is Lost
as Nobuyo
(1958) Chance Meeting
as Tetsu Koyanagi
(1965) The Start of Life
as Tomi Ishiguro
(1957) The Flesh Is Weak
as Doctor
(1970) Oh, My Comrade!
as Harumi
(1961) Marriageable Age
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(1956) The Burmese Harp
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(1962) Nippon no obaachan
as Kumi
(1964) Intentions of Murder
as Kinu Takahashi
(1951) The Bitch
as Tami
(1965) A Chain of Islands
as Kikuko Sasaki
(1956) Summer Storm
as Mitsu Asai
(1937) Learn from Experience, Part Two
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(1962) The Young and Bad
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(1962) Ningen Gari
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(1979) Nomugi Pass
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(1964) Gazing at Love and Death
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(1977) Proof of the Man
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(1953) Miniature
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(1956) Shiawase wa doko ni
as Kane
(1963) The Third Will
as Kimie
(1969) Thousand Cranes
as Toyo
(1962) Children of Izu
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(1972) Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
as Moko's mother
(1972) My Voiceless Friends
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(1979) The Three Undelivered Letters
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(1983) Tora-san's Song of Love
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(1952) Become a Mother, Become a Woman
as Hide
(1967) Song of Love
as Orin
(1953) Yokubo
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(1954) Tomoshibi
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(1955) Policeman's Diary, Part 2
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(1961) A Good Man, A Good Day
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(1971) Price of Life
as Tome
(1956) Jigoku no hatoba
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(1956) Actress
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(1985) Dangerous Women
as Mrs. Kinumura
(1954) The Valley Between Love and Death
as Tetsu Ishida
(1955) Ghost Story of Youth
as Nanny at Okumura's
(1970) おくさまは18歳
as Asuka's grandmother
(1971) Mayuko hitori
as 加野のぶ