Tanie Kitabayashi was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre Company, founded in 1950. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women.
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My Neighbor Totoro
The Burmese Harp
Scandal
The Insect Woman
Intentions of Murder
Odd Obsession
Children of Hiroshima
Wrath of Daimajin
Rikyu
The Sun's Burial
Conflagration
Amagi Pass
Proof of the Man
Yomigaeri
Stakeout
A Japanese Tragedy
Station
Twilight of the Cockroaches
The Heart
The Human Bullet
Letter from the Mountain
Never Give Up
Foundry Town
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
White Beast
Suspicion
Rainbow Kids
The Wolves
My Second Brother
The Sands of Kurobe
Tale of Japanese Burglars
The Three Undelivered Letters
Our Town
Patience Has An End
The Burmese Harp
Call from Darkness
White Snake Enchantment
A Chain of Islands
Learn from Experience, Part Two
All My Children160 credits on file
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Mayuko hitori
おくさまは18歳Awards 2
Connected to Tanie 6
About this person
Tanie Kitabayashi was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre Company, founded in 1950. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. 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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