Tanie Kitabayashi
Birthday: 1911-05-21
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: 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
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother...
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Red Bud and White Flower
A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry....
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Never Give Up
Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daugh...
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Rikyu
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force ...
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Dolls floating down the river
A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chiek...
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The Insect Woman
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...
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Beauty and the Thief
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and erot...
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Foundry Town
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and on...
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A Japanese Tragedy
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her un...
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Resurrection
When dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada is d...
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White Beast
Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation fac...
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Children of Hiroshima
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the s...
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Conflagration
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golde...
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The Human Bullet
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedicati...
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All My Children
School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings near th...
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Only on Mondays
Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign busine...
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Letter from the Mountain
Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural f...
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Station
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering po...
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The Heart
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon rea...
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Hole in One
A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the ...
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Blood and Sea
The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago B...
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A Billionaire
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and group...
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Writhing Tongue
Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible...
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Gassan
Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and inter...
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A Woman Called En
Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated b...
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The Greatest Challenge of All
After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years...
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The Wild Daisy
Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take ...
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Bonchi
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed b...
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Saigo no sentō-ki
The first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the end...
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A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second...
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Dorei kōjō
After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union....
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Wrath of Daimajin
In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave la...
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Journey to the North
Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown o...
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限りなき情熱
Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustl...
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Heat Wave Island
Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to ...
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Scandal
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a pain...
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Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
In this program based on the book of the same name by Ishimure Michiko, Kitabayashi Tanie plays “Goz...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series....
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The Sun's Burial
In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitu...
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River Without a Bridge
Brothers Koji and Seitaro Hatana, belong to the "outcast" caste. Despite their personal qualities—in...
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White Snake Enchantment
Uta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love triangl...
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Buddha
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years ...
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The Sands of Kurobe
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for th...
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The Golden Bat Shows Up
A heartwarming depiction of the episode behind the birth of "Golden Bat," a picture story show that ...
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The Burmese Harp
In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to ...
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Rainbow Kids
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they pro...
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The Possessed
Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa...
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How Sorrowful
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to ...
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Our Town
In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He s...
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A Hole of My Own Making
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeep...
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The Little Hero
A five year old boy leaves his mother and grandparents to see his father who has gone to work in Osa...
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The Long Death
On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the ba...
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a bur...
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Beyond the Green Hills
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was ag...
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Stakeout
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect wi...
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Odd Obsession
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot be...
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Call from Darkness
Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case i...
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The Human Wall
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home....
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A Windmill, Tulips and Love
Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo....
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Love: Starting on a Journey
A girl suffering from an incurable disease get in a coma, while her boyfriend visit her to the hospi...
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Enraptured
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a...
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The Maid's Kid
In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akit...
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father,...
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A Story from Echigo
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-...
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The Wolves
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their w...
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Patience Has An End
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucr...
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Bad Girl
Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her...
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Amagi Pass
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-gir...
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The Street Without Sun
Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers...
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Welcome, My Baby
Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and h...
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The Final Winner?
In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an E...
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Suspicion
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local...
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Terror in the Streets
Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move ...
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The Sea of Eden
Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys ...
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Haze of Love
Rumiko Arai, a 20-year-old girl working in a sawmill, meets a driver, Sekiguchi, and they begin a re...
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Darkness at Noon
Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a...
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The Shadow of Fear
In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation...
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Twilight of the Cockroaches
The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of spa...
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Chance Meeting
Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidental...
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The Start of Life
A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father lose...
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But the Flesh is Weak
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage....
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Oh, My Comrade!
Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fuk...
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Marriageable Age
The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband...
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The Burmese Harp
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himse...
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Nippon no obaachan
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast abo...
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Intentions of Murder
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a h...
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The Bitch
The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer....
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A Chain of Islands
When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how...
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Learn from Experience, Part Two
Part 2 of a 2-part romance (first part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan...
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The Young and Bad
Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business...
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Ningen Gari
A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs ...
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Nomugi Pass
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in...
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Gazing at Love and Death
A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy ...
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Proof of the Man
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of ...
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Miniature
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha...
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The Third Will
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after...
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Thousand Cranes
The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his fat...
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My Voiceless Friends
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visi...
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The Three Undelivered Letters
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay...
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Tora-san's Song of Love
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san...
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Song of Love
The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people....
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Tomoshibi
Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr. Matsukuma, although ...
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station....
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A Good Man, A Good Day
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his sur...
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Jigoku no hatoba
A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manz...
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Actress
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasin...
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Dangerous Women
Shuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include Tanase...
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The Valley Between Love and Death
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that i...
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Ghost Story of Youth
A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a balle...
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The Grave Tells All
Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that...
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The Incident
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest...
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Daybreak Chorus
In a small town, Tomoko, a new bus conductor, works hard to prove herself. She crosses paths with Sa...
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Sisters
Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelec...
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Yamada Village Waltz
In Yamada Village, which is suffering from a serious shortage of wives due to the wave of depopulati...
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