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Tanie Kitabayashi

Tanie Kitabayashi

Acting • 1911-05-21 • Tokyo, Japan

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 Totoro8.1

My Neighbor Totoro

1988

Conflagration7.1

Conflagration

1958

Rikyu7.5

Rikyu

1989

Odd Obsession6.2

Odd Obsession

1959

Rainbow Kids6.7

Rainbow Kids

1991

The Sun's Burial6.5

The Sun's Burial

1960

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