Tanie Kitabayashi
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as Granny (voice) My Neighbor Totoro 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.
Filmography
My Neighbor Totoro
as Granny (voice)
Scandal
as Yasu Hiruta
The Insect Woman
as Madam
Intentions of Murder
as Kinu Takahashi
Children of Hiroshima
as Otoyo
Wrath of Daimajin
as Old Woman Kane
Odd Obsession
as Hana
Rikyu
as Mother
Conflagration
as Aki, Goichi's mother
The Sun's Burial
as Chika
Amagi Pass
as Tea house's old woman
A Japanese Tragedy
as Ichizo's wife
Yomigaeri
as Saki Naito
The Heart
as Hioki's mother
Station
as Masayo Mikami
Letter from the Mountain
as Oume