Tanie Kitabayashi

Born: 1911-05-21

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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My Neighbor Totoro

as Granny (voice)
Released: 1988-04-16

Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized...

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The Insect Woman

as Madam
Released: 1963-11-16

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect,...

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Scandal

as Yasu Hiruta
Released: 1950-04-26

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a...

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The Burmese Harp

as uncredited
Released: 1956-01-21

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises...

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Rikyu

as Mother
Released: 1989-09-15

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through...

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Odd Obsession

as Hana
Released: 1959-06-23

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he...

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Suspicion

as Harue Shirakawa
Released: 1982-09-11

A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the...

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Stakeout

as uncredited
Released: 1958-01-15

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they...

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Intentions of Murder

as Kinu Takahashi
Released: 1964-06-28

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with...

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Resurrection

as Saki Naito
Released: 2003-01-18

When dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada...

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White Snake Enchantment

as Tane
Released: 1983-11-12

Uta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love...

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Amagi Pass

as Tea house's old woman
Released: 1983-02-19

Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha...

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The Heart

as Hioki's mother
Released: 1955-08-31

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon...

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Children of Hiroshima

as Otoyo
Released: 1952-08-06

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays...

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The Human Bullet

as uncredited
Released: 1968-10-22

A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his...

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Wrath of Daimajin

as Old Woman Kane
Released: 1966-12-10

In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as...

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Chance Meeting

as Tetsu Koyanagi
Released: 1958-01-15

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo...

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Love: Starting on a Journey

as uncredited
Released: 1985-01-26

A girl suffering from an incurable disease get in a coma, while her boyfriend visit her to the...

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Call from Darkness

as Sukeno
Released: 1981-09-26

Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo...

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The Sun's Burial

as Chika, Batasuke's wife
Released: 1960-08-09

In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution,...

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Twilight of the Cockroaches

as Torah (voice)
Released: 1987-11-21

The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of...

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Never Give Up

as Kiyo Matsushita
Released: 1978-10-07

Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted...

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Proof of the Man

as uncredited
Released: 1977-10-08

When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail...

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Station

as Masayo Mikami
Released: 1981-11-07

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in...

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Conflagration

as Aki, Goichi's mother
Released: 1958-09-22

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the...

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Rainbow Kids

as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
Released: 1991-01-15

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they...

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The Start of Life

as Tomi Ishiguro
Released: 1965-04-29

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father...

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Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

as uncredited
Released: 1950-11-03

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A Story from Echigo

as uncredited
Released: 1964-05-09

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his...

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A Japanese Tragedy

as Ichizo's wife
Released: 1953-06-17

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up...

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Writhing Tongue

as Akira's mother
Released: 1980-11-22

Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered...

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The Burmese Harp

as Old Woman
Released: 1985-07-20

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen...

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Nomugi Pass

as uncredited
Released: 1979-06-30

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early...

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White Beast

as uncredited
Released: 1950-06-03

The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring...

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Letter from the Mountain

as Oume
Released: 2002-10-05

Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated,...

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Policeman's Diary, Part 2

as uncredited
Released: 1955-11-16

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

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Patience Has An End

as uncredited
Released: 1971-06-25

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the...

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Dolls floating down the river

as Fuku
Released: 1962-03-03

A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of...

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Foundry Town

as Ume
Released: 1962-04-08

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families...

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Buddha

as Sumi
Released: 1961-10-31

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six...

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The Maid's Kid

as uncredited
Released: 1955-06-28

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in...

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Only on Mondays

as Yuka's mother
Released: 1964-03-04

Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign...

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A Billionaire

as uncredited
Released: 1954-11-22

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and...

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Learn from Experience, Part Two

as uncredited
Released: 1937-12-18

Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi...

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A Chain of Islands

as Kikuko Sasaki
Released: 1965-05-26

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine...

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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

as Grandma Shigeko
Released: 1959-03-29

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI...

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Darkness at Noon

as Satoe Miyazaki
Released: 1956-03-26

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based...

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Blind Devotion

as Saoko
Released: 1961-03-08

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

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Dangerous Women

as Mrs. Kinumura
Released: 1985-01-01

Shuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include...

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The Sands of Kurobe

as uncredited
Released: 1968-03-01

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps...

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A Good Man, A Good Day

as uncredited
Released: 1961-08-13

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his...

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The Street Without Sun

as Aunt of Matsutaro
Released: 1954-06-24

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Musume no boken

as uncredited
Released: 1958-11-01

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Apart from Life

as Matsuko Fukuji
Released: 1970-01-30

A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.

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Kobayashi Takiji

as uncredited
Released: 1974-02-20

A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)

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Heat Wave Island

as uncredited
Released: 1969-10-29

Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find...

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The Human Wall

as uncredited
Released: 1959-10-18

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

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Tale of Japanese Burglars

as Hayashida's mother
Released: 1965-05-01

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a...

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Before Dawn

as Ofuki
Released: 1953-10-13

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Oh, My Comrade!

as Harumi
Released: 1970-09-19

Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo....

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Nippon no obaachan

as Kumi
Released: 1962-01-03

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast...

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Saigo no sentō-ki

as uncredited
Released: 1956-10-17

The first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the...

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The Wolves

as uncredited
Released: 1955-07-03

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of...

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Beauty and the Thief

as Mrs. Inokuma
Released: 1952-09-22

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and...

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Love is Lost

as Nobuyo
Released: 1956-02-05

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

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Bad Girl

as uncredited
Released: 1963-03-16

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom....

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Jigoku no hatoba

as uncredited
Released: 1956-03-04

A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere....

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Yokubo

as uncredited
Released: 1953-05-13

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The Third Will

as Kimie
Released: 1963-03-31

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives,...

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A Woman Called En

as uncredited
Released: 1971-05-29

Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison,...

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Gazing at Love and Death

as uncredited
Released: 1964-09-19

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the...

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Summer Storm

as Mitsu Asai
Released: 1956-10-01

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

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Ningen Gari

as uncredited
Released: 1962-01-23

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations...

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Hole in One

as Suga Akabane
Released: 1957-09-15

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from...

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The Flesh Is Weak

as Doctor
Released: 1957-10-29

A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.

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Beyond the Green Hills

as Shiraki, Teacher
Released: 1963-01-03

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance...

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Miniature

as uncredited
Released: 1953-04-01

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one...

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The Greatest Challenge of All

as uncredited
Released: 1967-08-05

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many...

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The Valley Between Love and Death

as Tetsu Ishida
Released: 1954-09-21

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love...

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Blood and Sea

as uncredited
Released: 1965-10-01

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking...

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Actress

as uncredited
Released: 1956-11-27

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her...

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Farewell to Spring

as Old woman
Released: 1952-03-28

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

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The Young and Bad

as uncredited
Released: 1962-09-09

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his...

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限りなき情熱

as uncredited
Released: 1951-06-01

Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the...

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The Three Undelivered Letters

as uncredited
Released: 1979-10-06

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to...

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Our Town

as Otaka
Released: 1956-08-28

In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan....

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Red Bud and White Flower

as uncredited
Released: 1962-06-10

A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

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Tomoshibi

as uncredited
Released: 1954-06-22

Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr Matsukuma...

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Price of Life

as Tome
Released: 1971-07-24

Comedy of a phony doctor.

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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

as uncredited
Released: 1952-11-06

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

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The Wild Daisy

as Tamiko's Grandmother
Released: 1977-07-09

Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to...

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My Voiceless Friends

as uncredited
Released: 1972-04-29

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country...

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Become a Mother, Become a Woman

as Hide
Released: 1952-01-17

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男の哀愁

as uncredited
Released: 1951-04-13

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The Dawn of Judo

as uncredited
Released: 1955-09-28

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Our Teacher

as uncredited
Released: 1983-08-24

Japanese film.

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A Hole of My Own Making

as uncredited
Released: 1955-09-28

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The...

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The Sea of Eden

as uncredited
Released: 1976-04-24

Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he...

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All My Children

as Fusakichi's mother
Released: 1963-02-01

School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings...

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Tora-san's Song of Love

as uncredited
Released: 1983-08-06

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's...

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Asu no hanayome

as uncredited
Released: 1962-09-09

1962 Japanese movie

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Bonchi

as uncredited
Released: 1960-04-14

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal....

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Terror in the Streets

as Shino
Released: 1970-07-04

Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to...

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Thousand Cranes

as Toyo
Released: 1969-04-19

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his...

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Gassan

as uncredited
Released: 1979-10-20

Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and...

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Children of Izu

as uncredited
Released: 1962-11-21

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River Without a Bridge

as uncredited
Released: 1969-02-01

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The Bitch

as Tami
Released: 1951-08-10

The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.

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The Final Winner?

as uncredited
Released: 1968-08-28

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as...

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Marriageable Age

as uncredited
Released: 1961-01-14

Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and...

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The Long Death

as uncredited
Released: 1964-04-12

On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned...

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Welcome, My Baby

as Yuki Nishizaka
Released: 1964-02-23

Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage...

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Ashita au hito

as uncredited
Released: 1962-09-16

1962 Japanese movie

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River Without a Bridge Part 2

as uncredited
Released: 1970-04-25

Second part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)

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Ghost Story of Youth

as Nanny at Okumura's
Released: 1955-04-19

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a...

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Koibito

as Mrs. Saeki
Released: 1951-03-10

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Song of Love

as Orin
Released: 1967-04-29

The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.

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Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete

as Fusako Kawai
Released: 1952-10-09

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The Golden Bat Shows Up

as uncredited
Released: 1972-05-13

A comedy featuring The Golden Bat

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Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte

as Moko's mother
Released: 1972-06-12

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Dorei kōjō

as uncredited
Released: 1968-01-25

After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.

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Journey to the North

as Hana Kanai
Released: 1967-01-03

Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the...

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The Possessed

as uncredited
Released: 1976-10-16

Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply....

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Jūdai no yūwaku

as uncredited
Released: 1953-12-29

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

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The Shadow of Fear

as uncredited
Released: 1956-09-11

In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by...

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A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land

as Ohana
Released: 1953-02-20

Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the...

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Pure Land, Poisoned Sea

as Goze / Narrator (voice)
Released: 1970-11-14

In this program based on the book of the same name by Ishimure Michiko, Kitabayashi Tanie plays...

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Shiawase wa doko ni

as Kane
Released: 1956-07-19

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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion

as uncredited
Released: 1971-07-18

Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

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Mayuko hitori

as 加野のぶ
First aired: 1971-04-05

Kano is known as a "cocoon child" whose father is an agriculturist. Her mother disappeared when...

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おくさまは18歳

as Asuka's grandmother
First aired: 1970-09-29

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