Tanie Kitabayashi
Acting
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.
Born: May 21, 1911
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Letter from the Mountain
Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.
Thousand Cranes
The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.
My Neighbor Totoro
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
The Maid's Kid
In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her family. She grows close to their youngest son Katsumi, experiencing things that will change her view on life.
Miniature
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
The Third Will
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father.
Tora-san's Song of Love
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets a young woman in Niigata who, unbeknownst to him, is a popular enka singer.
The Burmese Harp
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
Bad Girl
Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights at a rundown bar, sharing drinks and cigarettes with the lowlife drunks. She has nowhere to turn and no one to talk to, until she is reunited with her childhood friend, Saburo, who brings warmth to her heart.
Terror in the Streets
Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move out of her apartment. As she nears rock bottom, she begins to suspect someone is out to drive her insane, or worse.
Filmography
as Saki Naito
as Oume
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
as Mother
as Granny (voice)
as Torah (voice)
as Old Woman
as Mrs. Kinumura
as Tane
as Tea house's old woman
as Harue Shirakawa
as Masayo Mikami
as Sukeno
as Akira's mother
as Kiyo Matsushita
as Kane Shinozaki
as Tamiko's Grandmother
as Moko's mother
as Tome
as 加野のぶ
as Goze / Narrator (voice)
as Asuka's grandmother
as Harumi
as Shino
as Matsuko Fukuji
as Toyo
as Orin
as Hana Kanai
as Old Woman Kane
as Kikuko Sasaki
as Hayashida's mother
as Tomi Ishiguro
as Kinu Takahashi
as Yuka's mother
as Yuki Nishizaka
as Old Woman
as Madam
as Kimie
as Fusakichi's mother
as Shiraki, Teacher
as Ume
as Kumi
as Sumi
as Saoko
as Chika
as Hana
as Grandma Shigeko
as Aki, Goichi's mother
as Tetsu Koyanagi
as Doctor
as Suga Akabane
as Mitsu Asai
as Otaka
as Kane
as Satoe Miyazaki
as Nobuyo
as Hioki's mother
as Nanny at Okumura's
as Tetsu Ishida
as Aunt of Matsutaro
as Ofuki
as Ichizo's wife
as Ohana
as Fusako Kawai
as Mrs. Inokuma
as Otoyo
as Old woman
as Tami
as Mrs. Saeki
as Yasu Hiruta