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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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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
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1950
ScandalYasu Hiruta
1955
The HeartHioki's mother
1956
The Burmese Harp
1958
ConflagrationAki, Goichi's mother
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in JapanGrandma Shigeko
1959
Odd ObsessionHana
1960
The Sun's BurialChika, Batasuke's wife
1962
Cupola, Where the Furnaces GlowUme
1963
The Insect WomanMadam
1964
Intentions of Murder
1964
A Story from Echigo
1981
StationMasayo Mikami
1982
SuspicionHarue Shirakawa
1988
My Neighbor TotoroKanta no obâsan (voz)
2002
Letter from the MountainOume
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