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