Tanie Kitabayashi
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.
Top Filmography
My Neighbor Totoro
1988 // MOVIE
The Burmese Harp
1956 // MOVIE
Scandal
1950 // MOVIE
The Insect Woman
1963 // MOVIE
Intentions of Murder
1964 // MOVIE
Children of Hiroshima
1952 // MOVIE
Wrath of Daimajin
1966 // MOVIE
Odd Obsession
1959 // MOVIE
Rikyu
1989 // MOVIE
Conflagration
1958 // MOVIE
The Sun's Burial
1960 // MOVIE
Stakeout
1958 // MOVIE
Amagi Pass
1983 // MOVIE
Proof of the Man
1977 // MOVIE
A Japanese Tragedy
1953 // MOVIE