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.
as Saki Naito
as Oume
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
as Mother
as Granny (voice)
as Torah (voice)
as Old Woman
as Mrs. Kinumura
as Tane
as Tea house's old woman
as Harue Shirakawa
as Masayo Mikami
as Sukeno
as Akira's mother
as Kiyo Matsushita
as Kane Shinozaki
as Tamiko's Grandmother
as Moko's mother
as Uma Ōnuma
as Tome
as 加野のぶ(310 eps)
as Goze / Narrator (voice)
as Asuka's grandmother(53 eps)
as Harumi
as Shino
as Matsuko Fukuji
as Toyo
as Bookstore Owner's Wife
as Tsuru
as Orin
as Hana Kanai
as Old Woman Kane
as Kikuko Sasaki
as Hayashida's mother
as Tomi Ishiguro
as Itoko
as Kinu Takahashi
as Yuka's mother
as Yuki Nishizaka
as Old Woman
as Madam
as Kimie
as Fusakichi's mother
as Shiraki, Teacher
as Ume
as Kumi
as Sumi
as Saoko
as Chika
as Hana
as Yuki Kashiwabara
as Grandma Shigeko
as Aki, Goichi's mother
as Tetsu Koyanagi
as Doctor
as Suga Akabane
as Mitsu Asai
as Otaka
as Kane
as Satoe Miyazaki
as Nobuyo
as Hioki's mother
as Nanny at Okumura's
as Tetsu Ishida
as Aunt of Matsutaro
as Ofuki
as Ichizo's wife
as Ohana
as Aunt Otora
as Fusako Kawai
as Mrs. Inokuma
as Otoyo
as Old woman
as Tami
as Mrs. Saeki
as Yasu Hiruta