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Tanie Kitabayashi

Acting Born May 21, 1911 Tokyo, Japan 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Film

My Neighbor Totoro

as Granny (voice)

Full filmography

  • My Neighbor Totoro (1988) as Granny (voice)
  • Mayuko hitori (1971) as 加野のぶ
  • おくさまは18歳 (1970) as Asuka's grandmother
  • White Snake Enchantment (1983) as Tane
  • The Insect Woman (1963) as Madam
  • Proof of the Man (1977)
  • Odd Obsession (1959) as Hana
  • Amagi Pass (1983) as Tea house's old woman
  • Buddha (1961) as Sumi
  • Never Give Up (1978) as Kiyo Matsushita
  • Intentions of Murder (1964) as Kinu Takahashi
  • Yomigaeri (2003) as Saki Naito
  • The Burmese Harp (1956)
  • Love: Starting on a Journey (1985)
  • A Japanese Tragedy (1953) as Ichizo's wife
  • The Sands of Kurobe (1968)
  • Scandal (1950) as Yasu Hiruta
  • Rikyu (1989) as Mother
  • Station (1981) as Masayo Mikami
  • Children of Hiroshima (1952) as Otoyo
  • Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan (1959) as Grandma Shigeko
  • Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987) as Torah (voice)
  • The Three Undelivered Letters (1979)
  • Stakeout (1958)