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.

KNOWN FOR

My Neighbor Totoro
1988
Mayuko hitori
1971
おくさまは18歳
1970
Dawn Chorus
1955
Inhibited Love
1955
Rikyu
1989
Shinzōyaburi no oka
1954
Station
1981
Outlaw
1953
Yomigaeri
2003
White Snake Enchantment
1983
Conflagration
1958

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
169
2003
Yomigaeri
as Saki Naito
2002
Letter from the Mountain
as Oume
1991
Rainbow Kids
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
1989
Rikyu
as Mother
1988
My Neighbor Totoro
as Granny (voice)
1988
Yamada Village Waltz
1987
Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Torah (voice)
1985
The Burmese Harp
as Old Woman
1985
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
Haze of Love
1985
Dangerous Women
as Mrs. Kinumura
1983
White Snake Enchantment
as Tane
1983
Amagi Pass
as Tea house's old woman
1983
Our Teacher
1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
1982
Suspicion
as Harue Shirakawa
1982
The Legend of Sayo
1981
Station
as Masayo Mikami
1981
Call from Darkness
as Sukeno
1980
Writhing Tongue
as Akira's mother
1980
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
1979
Gassan
1979
Nomugi Pass
1979
The Three Undelivered Letters
1978
Never Give Up
as Kiyo Matsushita
1978
The Incident
as Kane Shinozaki
1977
The Wild Daisy
as Tamiko's Grandmother
1977
Proof of the Man
1976
The Possessed
1976
The Sea of Eden
1974
Kobayashi Takiji
1972
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
1972
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
as Moko's mother
1972
My Voiceless Friends
1972
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
as Uma Ōnuma
1971
A Woman Called En
1971
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971
Patience Has An End
1971
Price of Life
as Tome
1971
Mayuko hitori
as 加野のぶ
1970
Apart from Life
as Matsuko Fukuji
1970
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
as Goze / Narrator (voice)
1970
The Little Hero
1970
Terror in the Streets
as Shino
1970
Oh, My Comrade!
as Harumi
1970
おくさまは18歳
as Asuka's grandmother
1969
Heat Wave Island
1969
River Without a Bridge
1969
Thousand Cranes
as Toyo
1968
The Human Bullet
as Bookstore Owner's Wife
1968
Slave Factory
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
The Final Winner?
1967
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967
Journey to the North
as Hana Kanai
1967
Song of Love
as Orin
1967
The Last Lady
as Tsuru
1966
Wrath of Daimajin
as Old Woman Kane
1966
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
1966
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1965
Blood and Sea
1965
Tale of Japanese Burglars
as Hayashida's mother
1965
The Start of Life
as Tomi Ishiguro
1965
A Chain of Islands
as Kikuko Sasaki
1965
Ane to imôto
as Itoko
1965
Trigger Happy Romeo
1964
Only on Mondays
as Yuka's mother
1964
The Long Death
1964
A Story from Echigo
1964
Welcome, My Baby
as Yuki Nishizaka
1964
Intentions of Murder
as Kinu Takahashi
1964
Gazing at Love and Death
1963
The Insect Woman
as Madam
1963
All My Children
as Fusakichi's mother
1963
Beyond the Green Hills
as Shiraki, Teacher
1963
Bad Girl
1963
The Third Will
as Kimie
1963
Daybreak Chorus
as Old Woman
1962
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
Dolls floating down the river
as Fuku
1962
Foundry Town
as Ume
1962
Asu no hanayome
1962
Ashita au hito
1962
Nippon no obaachan
as Kumi
1962
The Young and Bad
1962
Ningen Gari
1962
Children of Izu
1961
Buddha
as Sumi
1961
Enraptured
1961
Blind Devotion
as Saoko
1961
Marriageable Age
1961
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961
Shokei zen'ya
1961
The Famous Wanderer
1961
小父さんありがとう
1960
Bonchi
1960
The Sun's Burial
as Chika
1960
The Grave Tells All
1960
Yakuza sensei
1959
Odd Obsession
as Hana
1959
The Human Wall
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as Grandma Shigeko
1959
My Second Brother
1959
Paper Pigeon
as Yuki Kashiwabara
1958
Musume no boken
1958
Conflagration
as Aki, Goichi's mother
1958
Stakeout
1958
Chance Meeting
as Tetsu Koyanagi
1958
Omoni to shounen
1957
Hole in One
as Suga Akabane
1957
But the Flesh is Weak
as Doctor
1956
Saigo no sentō-ki
1956
How Sorrowful
1956
Our Town
as Otaka
1956
Darkness at Noon
as Satoe Miyazaki
1956
The Shadow of Fear
1956
Love is Lost
as Nobuyo
1956
The Burmese Harp
1956
Summer Storm
as Mitsu Asai
1956
Shiawase wa doko ni
as Kane
1956
Jigoku no hatoba
1956
Actress
1956
Hana no unga
1955
The Heart
as Hioki's mother
1955
The Dawn of Judo
1955
A Hole of My Own Making
1955
The Motherless
1955
The Maid's Kid
1955
The Wolves
1955
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
Ghost Story of Youth
as Nanny at Okumura's
1955
Sisters
1955
Youth
1955
A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
1955
Dawn Chorus
1955
Inhibited Love
1954
A Billionaire
1954
The Street Without Sun
as Aunt of Matsutaro
1954
Tomoshibi
1954
The Valley Between Love and Death
as Tetsu Ishida
1954
Victory or Defeat
1954
Shinzōyaburi no oka
1953
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
A Japanese Tragedy
as Ichizo's wife
1953
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
as Ohana
1953
Before the Dawn
as Ofuki
1953
Miniature
1953
Desire
1953
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953
Outlaw
1952
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
Beauty and the Thief
as Mrs. Inokuma
1952
Farewell to Spring
as Old woman
1952
Children of Hiroshima
as Otoyo
1952
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
as Aunt Otora
1952
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
as Fusako Kawai
1952
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
as Hide
1951
Koibito
as Mrs. Saeki
1951
男の哀愁
1951
限りなき情熱
1951
The Bitch
as Tami
1950
White Beast
1950
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
Scandal
as Yasu Hiruta
1950
The Scarlet Bat
1949
Koga Manshion
1937
Learn from Experience, Part Two