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.
Stakeout
Only on Mondays
Odd Obsession
The Human Wall
Nippon no obaachan
Intentions of Murder
Bad Girl
The Insect Woman
Conflagration
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Foundry Town
A Story from Echigo
The Sands of Kurobe
Apart from Life
A Woman Called En
River Without a Bridge Part 2
The Human Bullet
Heat Wave Island
The Start of Life
River Without a Bridge
