Tanie Kitabayashi
Cast

Tanie Kitabayashi

1911 – 2010
Active years (films on this site)
1958–1989
Genres
DramaComedyAdventureAnimationBiography
Schools and movements
Contemporary Asian CinemaJapanese Golden AgeJapanese New WaveAnimation and Puppet Film

Directors worked with

Kon Ichikawa2 filmsShohei Imamura1 filmHayao Miyazaki1 filmHiroshi Teshigahara1 film

Biography

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.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

Awards and honours

National / local

5 films on this site

  1. Conflagration 1958 · Kon Ichikawa · IMDb 7.1 · Cast
  2. The Key 1959 · Kon Ichikawa · IMDb 6.8 · Cast
  3. The Insect Woman 1963 · Shohei Imamura · IMDb 7.3 · Cast
  4. My Neighbor Totoro 1988 · Hayao Miyazaki · IMDb 8.1 · Cast
  5. Rikyu 1989 · Hiroshi Teshigahara · IMDb 7.1 · Cast