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 als...
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Musume no boken
My Neighbor Totoro
As Granny (voice)
Red Bud and White Flower
Never Give Up
As Kiyo Matsushita
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Rikyu
As Mother
Jūdai no yūwaku
Dolls floating down the river
As Fuku
The Insect Woman
As Madam
Koibito
As Mrs. Saeki
Beauty and the Thief
As Mrs. Inokuma
Farewell to Spring
As Old woman
Foundry Town
As Ume
A Japanese Tragedy
As Ichizo's wife
Resurrection
As Saki Naito
White Beast
Children of Hiroshima
As Otoyo
Conflagration
As Aki, Goichi's mother
Apart from Life
As Matsuko Fukuji
The Human Bullet
All My Children
As Fusakichi's mother
Only on Mondays
As Yuka's mother
Letter from the Mountain
As Oume
Station
As Masayo Mikami
The Heart
As Hioki's mother
Hole in One
As Suga Akabane
Blood and Sea
A Billionaire
River Without a Bridge Part 2
Writhing Tongue
As Akira's mother
Gassan
A Woman Called En
The Greatest Challenge of All
The Wild Daisy
As Tamiko's Grandmother
Bonchi
Saigo no sentō-ki
Asu no hanayome
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
As Ohana
Ashita au hito
男の哀愁
The Dawn of Judo
Dorei kōjō
Kobayashi Takiji
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Wrath of Daimajin
As Old Woman Kane
Journey to the North
As Hana Kanai
限りなき情熱
Heat Wave Island
Scandal
As Yasu Hiruta
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
As Goze / Narrator (voice)
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
The Sun's Burial
As Chika, Batasuke's wife
River Without a Bridge
White Snake Enchantment
As Tane
Buddha
As Sumi
The Sands of Kurobe
The Golden Bat Shows Up
The Burmese Harp
As Old Woman
Rainbow Kids
As Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
The Possessed
How Sorrowful
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
As Aunt Otora
Our Town
As Otaka
A Hole of My Own Making
The Little Hero
The Motherless
Before Dawn
As Ofuki
The Long Death
Tale of Japanese Burglars
As Hayashida's mother
Beyond the Green Hills
As Shiraki, Teacher
Odd Obsession
As Hana
Stakeout
Call from Darkness
As Sukeno
The Human Wall
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
Love: Starting on a Journey
Enraptured
The Maid's Kid
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
As Grandma Shigeko
A Story from Echigo
The Wolves
Patience Has An End
Bad Girl
Amagi Pass
As Tea house's old woman
The Street Without Sun
As Aunt of Matsutaro
Our Teacher
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
As Fusako Kawai
Welcome, My Baby
As Yuki Nishizaka
The Final Winner?
Suspicion
As Harue Shirakawa
Blind Devotion
As Saoko
Terror in the Streets
As Shino
The Sea of Eden
Haze of Love
Darkness at Noon
As Satoe Miyazaki
The Shadow of Fear
Twilight of the Cockroaches
As Torah (voice)
Love is Lost
As Nobuyo
Chance Meeting
As Tetsu Koyanagi
The Start of Life
As Tomi Ishiguro
The Flesh Is Weak
As Doctor
Oh, My Comrade!
As Harumi
Marriageable Age
The Burmese Harp
Nippon no obaachan
As Kumi
Intentions of Murder
As Kinu Takahashi
The Bitch
As Tami
A Chain of Islands
As Kikuko Sasaki
Summer Storm
As Mitsu Asai
Learn from Experience, Part Two
The Young and Bad
Ningen Gari
Nomugi Pass
Gazing at Love and Death
Proof of the Man
Miniature
Shiawase wa doko ni
As Kane
The Third Will
As Kimie
Thousand Cranes
As Toyo
Children of Izu
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
As Moko's mother
My Voiceless Friends
The Three Undelivered Letters
Tora-san's Song of Love
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
As Hide
Song of Love
As Orin
Yokubo
Tomoshibi
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
A Good Man, A Good Day
Price of Life
As Tome
Jigoku no hatoba
Actress
Dangerous Women
As Mrs. Kinumura
The Valley Between Love and Death
As Tetsu Ishida
Ghost Story of Youth
As Nanny at Okumura's
おくさまは18歳
As Asuka's grandmother
Mayuko hitori
As 加野のぶ