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