Tanie Kitabayashi
Actor
Biography
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.
Filmography
The Burmese Harp
1956
Scandal
as Yasu Hiruta 1950
The Insect Woman
as Madam 1963
Intentions of Murder
as Kinu Takahashi 1964
Children of Hiroshima
as Otoyo 1952
Wrath of Daimajin
as Old Woman Kane 1966
Odd Obsession
as Hana 1959
Rikyu
as Mother 1989
Conflagration
as Aki, Goichi's mother 1958
The Sun's Burial
as Chika 1960
Stakeout
1958
Amagi Pass
as Tea house's old woman 1983
Proof of the Man
1977
Resurrection
as Saki Naito 2003
A Japanese Tragedy
as Ichizo's wife 1953
The Human Bullet
1968