Tanie Kitabayashi
Tanie Kitabayashi was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre Company, founded in 1950. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. 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.
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🎬 Movies
Yomigaeri
actor
2003
Letter from the Mountain
actor
2002
Rainbow Kids
actor
1991
Rikyu
actor
1989
My Neighbor Totoro
actor
1988
Twilight of the Cockroaches
actor
1987
The Burmese Harp
actor
1985
Love: Starting on a Journey
actor
1985
Haze of Love
actor
1985
White Snake Enchantment
actor
1983
Our Teacher
actor
1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
actor
1983
Amagi Pass
actor
1983
Station
actor
1981
Writhing Tongue
actor
1980
Gassan
actor
1979
The Three Undelivered Letters
actor
1979
Nomugi Pass
actor
1979
Never Give Up
actor
1978
The Incident
actor
1978
The Possessed
actor
1976
The Sea of Eden
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1976
My Voiceless Friends
actor
1972
Patience Has An End
actor
1971
A Woman Called En
actor
1971
Oh, My Comrade!
actor
1970
Terror in the Streets
actor
1970
Apart from Life
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1970
Heat Wave Island
actor
1969
Thousand Cranes
actor
1969
River Without a Bridge
actor
1969
The Human Bullet
actor
1968
The Final Winner?
actor
1968
Slave Factory
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1968
The Greatest Challenge of All
actor
1967
Song of Love
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1967
Wrath of Daimajin
actor
1966
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
actor
1966
Tale of Japanese Burglars
actor
1965
The Start of Life
actor
1965
Gazing at Love and Death
actor
1964
Intentions of Murder
actor
1964
A Story from Echigo
actor
1964
The Long Death
actor
1964
Only on Mondays
actor
1964
Welcome, My Baby
actor
1964
The Insect Woman
actor
1963
The Third Will
actor
1963
Bad Girl
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1963
Beyond the Green Hills
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1963
Children of Izu
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1962
The Young and Bad
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1962
Foundry Town
actor
1962
Ningen Gari
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1962
Nippon no obaachan
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1962
A Good Man, A Good Day
actor
1961
Enraptured
actor
1961
小父さんありがとう
actor
1961
Marriageable Age
actor
1961
The Sun's Burial
actor
1960
Bonchi
actor
1960
My Second Brother
actor
1959
The Human Wall
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1959
Odd Obsession
actor
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
actor
1959
Conflagration
actor
1958
Chance Meeting
actor
1958
Stakeout
actor
1958
But the Flesh is Weak
actor
1957
Hole in One
actor
1957
Actress
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1956
Saigo no sentō-ki
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1956
Summer Storm
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1956
How Sorrowful
actor
1956
Our Town
actor
1956
Hana no unga
actor
1956
Shiawase wa doko ni
actor
1956
Darkness at Noon
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1956
Love is Lost
actor
1956
The Motherless
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1955
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
actor
1955
Youth
actor
1955
A Hole of My Own Making
actor
1955
The Heart
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1955
The Wolves
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1955
The Maid's Kid
actor
1955
Ghost Story of Youth
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1955
Sisters
actor
1955
A Billionaire
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1954
The Street Without Sun
actor
1954
Tomoshibi
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1954
Jūdai no yūwaku
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1953
Before Dawn
actor
1953
A Japanese Tragedy
actor
1953
Yokubo
actor
1953
Miniature
actor
1953
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
actor
1953
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
actor
1953
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
actor
1952
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
actor
1952
Children of Hiroshima
actor
1952
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
actor
1952
The Bitch
actor
1951
Koibito
actor
1951
White Beast
actor
1950
Scandal
actor
1950
Learn from Experience, Part Two
actor
1937