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
actor
1976
My Voiceless Friends
actor
1972
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
actor
1972
Patience Has An End
actor
1971
A Woman Called En
actor
1971
The Little Hero
actor
1970
Oh, My Comrade!
actor
1970
Terror in the Streets
actor
1970
Apart from Life
actor
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
actor
1968
The Last Lady
actor
1967
The Greatest Challenge of All
actor
1967
Song of Love
actor
1967
Wrath of Daimajin
actor
1966
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
actor
1966
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
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