
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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The titles people know Tanie from.
IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.
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 Kiyo Matsushita

as Kane Shinozaki

as Tamiko's Grandmother



as Toyo

as Bookstore Owner's Wife




as Tsuru



as Hana

as Yuki Kashiwabara

as Grandma Shigeko

as Aki, Goichi's mother


The people who keep turning up in Tanie’s titles.







