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Tanie Kitabayashi

21st May 1911 Tokyo, Japan Acting

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.

153 Movies 2 TV Shows 163 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

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Rikyu 15th September 1989 as Mother
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Amagi Pass 19th February 1983 as Tea house's old woman
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Suspicion 11th September 1982 as Harue Shirakawa
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Station 7th November 1981 as Masayo Mikami
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Scandal 26th April 1950 as Yasu Hiruta