Tanie Kitabayashi
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.
My Neighbor Totoro
as Granny (voice)Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized...
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Scandal
as Yasu HirutaA celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a...
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The Burmese Harp
as uncreditedIn Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises...
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The Insect Woman
as MadamA woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect,...
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Intentions of Murder
as Kinu TakahashiThe neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with...
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White Snake Enchantment
as TaneUta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love...
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Nippon no obaachan
as KumiTwo obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast...
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Dolls floating down the river
as FukuA touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of...
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The Sun's Burial
as Chika, Batasuke's wifeIn Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution,...
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Foundry Town
as UmeSet in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families...
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Suspicion
as Harue ShirakawaA car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the...
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Darkness at Noon
as Satoe MiyazakiPolice beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based...
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Children of Hiroshima
as OtoyoShows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays...
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The Bitch
as TamiThe fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
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The Burmese Harp
as Old WomanIn the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen...
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Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Torah (voice)The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of...
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Stakeout
as uncreditedTwo detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they...
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Proof of the Man
as uncreditedWhen an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail...
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Wrath of Daimajin
as Old Woman KaneIn a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as...
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Chance Meeting
as Tetsu KoyanagiAya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo...
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The Sands of Kurobe
as uncreditedKitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps...
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Conflagration
as Aki, Goichi's motherLearning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the...
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Odd Obsession
as HanaA middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he...
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Station
as Masayo MikamiA detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in...
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Beyond the Green Hills
as Shiraki, TeacherShinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance...
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
as Hayashida's motherGisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a...
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A Japanese Tragedy
as Ichizo's wifeAt the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up...
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Patience Has An End
as uncreditedYoung coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the...
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Farewell to Spring
as Old womanBittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura
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Rainbow Kids
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' YanagawaA wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they...
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Nomugi Pass
as uncreditedThe story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early...
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Beauty and the Thief
as Mrs. InokumaThe picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and...
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The Wolves
as uncreditedA group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of...
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The Maid's Kid
as uncreditedIn order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in...
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Terror in the Streets
as ShinoYuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to...
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Resurrection
as Saki NaitoWhen dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada...
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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
as uncreditedPart one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
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A Hole of My Own Making
as uncreditedNobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The...
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The Valley Between Love and Death
as Tetsu IshidaA great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love...
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Only on Mondays
as Yuka's motherYuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign...
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Welcome, My Baby
as Yuki NishizakaTwo friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage...
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Actress
as uncreditedBased on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her...
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Never Give Up
as Kiyo MatsushitaSpecial forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted...
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A Billionaire
as uncreditedAn ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and...
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Our Town
as OtakaIn 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan....
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Rikyu
as MotherLate in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through...
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Writhing Tongue
as Akira's motherMasako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered...
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A Chain of Islands
as Kikuko SasakiWhen a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine...
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Summer Storm
as Mitsu AsaiA woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.
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Jūdai no yūwaku
as uncreditedFilm directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako
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The Human Bullet
as uncreditedA soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his...
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A Woman Called En
as uncreditedSet at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison,...
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Red Bud and White Flower
as uncreditedA high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.
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Amagi Pass
as Tea house's old womanJapan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha...
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限りなき情熱
as uncreditedIs it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the...
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Letter from the Mountain
as OumeHusband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated,...
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Learn from Experience, Part Two
as uncreditedPart 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi...
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The Three Undelivered Letters
as uncreditedA young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to...
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My Voiceless Friends
as uncreditedA man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country...
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Tora-san's Song of Love
as uncreditedTora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's...
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The Young and Bad
as uncreditedNot too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his...
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White Beast
as uncreditedThe critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring...
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Song of Love
as OrinThe life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.
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The Start of Life
as Tomi IshiguroA young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father...
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Miniature
as uncreditedGinko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one...
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A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
as OhanaOnna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the...
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The Possessed
as uncreditedOshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply....
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A Good Man, A Good Day
as uncreditedThe university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his...
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The Greatest Challenge of All
as uncreditedAfter an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many...
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The Long Death
as uncreditedOn January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned...
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The Sea of Eden
as uncreditedNanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he...
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Call from Darkness
as SukenoKeiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo...
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Journey to the North
as Hana KanaiWinter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the...
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Ningen Gari
as uncreditedA detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations...
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The Heart
as Hioki's motherIn the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon...
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Hole in One
as Suga AkabaneA female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from...
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as Grandma ShigekoKiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI...
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The Human Wall
as uncreditedDrama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
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Buddha
as SumiAn Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six...
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
as uncreditedFrom runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
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Blind Devotion
as SaokoLate romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.
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Blood and Sea
as uncreditedThe Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking...
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The Flesh Is Weak
as DoctorA woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
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The Wild Daisy
as Tamiko's GrandmotherTeenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to...
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A Story from Echigo
as uncreditedA sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his...
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The Third Will
as KimieA story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives,...
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Apart from Life
as Matsuko FukujiA film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.
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The Golden Bat Shows Up
as uncreditedA comedy featuring The Golden Bat
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Bonchi
as uncreditedKikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal....
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Dorei kōjō
as uncreditedAfter the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.
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Oh, My Comrade!
as HarumiFukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo....
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Bad Girl
as uncreditedWakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom....
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Gassan
as uncreditedAkira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and...
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Love: Starting on a Journey
as uncreditedA girl suffering from an incurable disease get in a coma, while her boyfriend visit her to the...
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Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
as Goze / Narrator (voice)In this program based on the book of the same name by Ishimure Michiko, Kitabayashi Tanie plays...
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Heat Wave Island
as uncreditedOtowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find...
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River Without a Bridge Part 2
as uncreditedSecond part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)
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Gazing at Love and Death
as uncreditedA young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
as uncreditedThird film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
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The Shadow of Fear
as uncreditedIn the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by...
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Marriageable Age
as uncreditedYoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and...
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Dangerous Women
as Mrs. KinumuraShuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include...
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Thousand Cranes
as ToyoThe entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his...
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All My Children
as Fusakichi's motherSchool teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings...
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Ghost Story of Youth
as Nanny at Okumura'sA melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a...
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Tomoshibi
as uncreditedStudents in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr Matsukuma...
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Kobayashi Takiji
as uncreditedA tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)
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The Final Winner?
as uncreditedIn a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as...
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Saigo no sentō-ki
as uncreditedThe first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the...
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Jigoku no hatoba
as uncreditedA battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere....
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Mayuko hitori
as 加野のぶKano is known as a "cocoon child" whose father is an agriculturist. Her mother disappeared when...
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