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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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25 April 1970
Second part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)
16 April 1988
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest.
01 October 1965
The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay.
03 January 1962
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law.
27 November 1956
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
29 October 1969
Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead.
23 February 1964
Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave.
19 February 1953
Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
15 September 1957
A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.
28 August 1968
In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.
16 October 1976
Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and do anything at all.
20 October 1979
Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for fair Fumiko.
05 August 1967
After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.
03 January 1960
Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that are thrust upon him.
08 April 1962
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.
26 May 1965
When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life.
09 May 1964
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest.
29 December 1953
Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako
06 November 1952
Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
19 April 1955
A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist and childhood friend.
20 July 1985
In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
16 November 1955
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
31 August 1955
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.
28 March 1952
Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura
09 July 1977
Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother.
23 January 1962
A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.
20 February 1974
A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)
24 July 1971
Comedy of a phony doctor.
12 November 1983
Uta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love triangle between a lustful priest, his second wife and his son Masao.
21 November 1987
The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on.
16 November 1963
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle.
15 September 1989
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan’s most powerful warlord, unifying the country.
26 April 1950
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
08 October 1977
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York.
15 January 1991
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place.
29 May 1971
Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father.
06 August 1983
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event.
04 November 1952
Japanese film.
17 June 1953
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home.
11 September 1982
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes.
09 August 1960
In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.
07 October 1978
Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daughter, Yoriko: the sole survival of a bloodbath for which he is responsible.
23 June 1959
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused.
15 January 1958
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
26 September 1981
Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown.
07 November 1981
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
10 August 1951
The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
22 November 1954
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
01 April 1953
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process.
29 April 1967
The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.
05 February 1956
Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.
28 June 1964
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
18 July 1971
Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
22 September 1958
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.
