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
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
actor
1968
The Greatest Challenge of All
actor
1967
Song of Love
actor
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
actor
1963
Beyond the Green Hills
actor
1963
Children of Izu
actor
1962
The Young and Bad
actor
1962
Foundry Town
actor
1962
Ningen Gari
actor
1962
Nippon no obaachan
actor
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