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