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.
Acting
Movie
My Neighbor Totoro
as Granny (voice)
1988
Movie
The Burmese Harp
1956
Movie
Scandal
as Yasu Hiruta
1950
Movie
The Insect Woman
as Madam
1963
Movie
Intentions of Murder
as Kinu Takahashi
1964
Movie
Children of Hiroshima
as Otoyo
1952
Movie
Wrath of Daimajin
as Old Woman Kane
1966
Movie
Odd Obsession
as Hana
1959
Movie
Rikyu
as Mother
1989
Movie
Conflagration
as Aki, Goichi's mother
1958
Movie
The Sun's Burial
as Chika
1960
Movie
Stakeout
1958
Movie
Amagi Pass
as Tea house's old woman
1983
Movie
Proof of the Man
1977
Movie
A Japanese Tragedy
as Ichizo's wife
1953
Movie
Yomigaeri
as Saki Naito
2003
Movie
The Human Bullet
1968
Movie
The Heart
as Hioki's mother
1955
Movie
Station
as Masayo Mikami
1981
Movie
Letter from the Mountain
as Oume
2002
Movie
Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Torah (voice)
1987
Movie
White Beast
1950
Movie
Rainbow Kids
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
1991
Movie
Foundry Town
as Ume
1962