Tanie Kitabayashi
Born May 21, 1911 (Age: 114)
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Tokyo, Japan
Biography
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.
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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Filmography
Letter from the Mountain
2002
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as Oume
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Age: 91
Rainbow Kids
1991
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as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
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Age: 79
Rikyu
1989
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as Mother
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Age: 78
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
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as Granny (voice)
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Age: 76
Yamada Village Waltz
1988
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as
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Age: 76
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
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as Torah (voice)
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Age: 76
The Burmese Harp
1985
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as Old Woman
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Age: 74
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
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as
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Age: 73
No Image
Haze of Love
1985
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as
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Age: 73
Dangerous Women
1985
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as Mrs. Kinumura
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Age: 73
Station
1981
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as Masayo Mikami
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Age: 70
Call from Darkness
1981
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as Sukeno
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Age: 70
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
1980
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as
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Age: 69
Writhing Tongue
1980
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as Akira's mother
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Age: 69
Never Give Up
1978
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as Kiyo Matsushita
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Age: 67
The Incident
1978
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as Kane Shinozaki
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Age: 67
Kobayashi Takiji
1974
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as
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Age: 62
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
1972
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as Moko's mother
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Age: 61
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
1972
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as
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Age: 60
My Voiceless Friends
1972
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as
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Age: 60
Price of Life
1971
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as Tome
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Age: 60
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971
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as
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Age: 60
A Woman Called En
1971
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as
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Age: 60
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
1970
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as Goze / Narrator (voice)
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Age: 59
Oh, My Comrade!
1970
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as Harumi
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Age: 59
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970
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as
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Age: 58
Heat Wave Island
1969
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as
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Age: 58
Thousand Cranes
1969
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as Toyo
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Age: 57
River Without a Bridge
1969
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as
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Age: 57
The Final Winner?
1968
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as
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Age: 57
Dorei kōjō
1968
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as
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Age: 56
Blood and Sea
1965
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as
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Age: 54
A Chain of Islands
1965
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as Kikuko Sasaki
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Age: 54
Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965
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as Hayashida's mother
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Age: 53
The Start of Life
1965
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as Tomi Ishiguro
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Age: 53
Gazing at Love and Death
1964
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as
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Age: 53
Intentions of Murder
1964
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as Kinu Takahashi
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Age: 53
A Story from Echigo
1964
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as
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Age: 52
The Long Death
1964
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as
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Age: 52
Only on Mondays
1964
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as Yuka's mother
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Age: 52
Welcome, My Baby
1964
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as Yuki Nishizaka
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Age: 52
Daybreak Chorus
1963
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as Old Woman
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Age: 52
The Insect Woman
1963
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as Madam
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Age: 52
The Third Will
1963
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as Kimie
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Age: 51
Bad Girl
1963
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as
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Age: 51
All My Children
1963
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as Fusakichi's mother
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Age: 51
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
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as Shiraki, Teacher
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Age: 51
Children of Izu
1962
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as
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Age: 51
Ashita au hito
1962
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as
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Age: 51
The Young and Bad
1962
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as
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Age: 51
Asu no hanayome
1962
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as
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Age: 51
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
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as
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Age: 51
Foundry Town
1962
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as Ume
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Age: 50
Dolls floating down the river
1962
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as Fuku
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Age: 50
Ningen Gari
1962
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as
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Age: 50
Nippon no obaachan
1962
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as Kumi
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Age: 50
Buddha
1961
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as Sumi
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Age: 50
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961
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as
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Age: 50
No Image
Enraptured
1961
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as
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Age: 49
でかんしょ風来坊
1961
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as
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Age: 49
Blind Devotion
1961
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as Saoko
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Age: 49
Shokei zen'ya
1961
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as
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Age: 49
Marriageable Age
1961
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as
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Age: 49
Yakuza sensei
1960
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as
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Age: 49
The Sun's Burial
1960
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as Chika
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Age: 49
Bonchi
1960
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as
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Age: 48
The Grave Tells All
1960
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as
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Age: 48
My Second Brother
1959
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as
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Age: 48
The Human Wall
1959
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as
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Age: 48
Odd Obsession
1959
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as Hana
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Age: 48
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
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as Grandma Shigeko
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Age: 47
Musume no boken
1958
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as
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Age: 47
Conflagration
1958
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as Aki, Goichi's mother
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Age: 47
Stakeout
1958
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as
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Age: 46
Chance Meeting
1958
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as Tetsu Koyanagi
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Age: 46
No Image
Omoni to shounen
1958
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as
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Age: 46
Actress
1956
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as
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Age: 45
Saigo no sentō-ki
1956
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as
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Age: 45
Summer Storm
1956
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as Mitsu Asai
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Age: 45
The Shadow of Fear
1956
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as
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Age: 45
No Image
How Sorrowful
1956
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as
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Age: 45
Our Town
1956
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as Otaka
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Age: 45
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
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as Kane
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Age: 45
Darkness at Noon
1956
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as Satoe Miyazaki
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Age: 44
Jigoku no hatoba
1956
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as
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Age: 44
Love is Lost
1956
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as Nobuyo
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Age: 44
The Burmese Harp
1956
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as
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Age: 44
No Image
The Motherless
1955
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as
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Age: 44
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
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as
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Age: 44
The Dawn of Judo
1955
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as
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Age: 44
A Hole of My Own Making
1955
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as
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Age: 44
The Heart
1955
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as Hioki's mother
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Age: 44
The Wolves
1955
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as
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Age: 44
The Maid's Kid
1955
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as
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Age: 44
Ghost Story of Youth
1955
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as Nanny at Okumura's
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Age: 43
Sisters
1955
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as
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Age: 43
Victory or Defeat
1954
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as
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Age: 43
A Billionaire
1954
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as
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Age: 43
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
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as Tetsu Ishida
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Age: 43
The Street Without Sun
1954
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as Aunt of Matsutaro
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Age: 43
Tomoshibi
1954
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as
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Age: 43
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
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as
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Age: 42
Before Dawn
1953
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as Ofuki
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Age: 42
A Japanese Tragedy
1953
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as Ichizo's wife
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Age: 42
Yokubo
1953
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as
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Age: 41
Miniature
1953
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as
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Age: 41
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953
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as Ohana
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Age: 41
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953
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as
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Age: 41
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
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as
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Age: 39
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
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as
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Age: 39
White Beast
1950
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as
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Age: 39
Scandal
1950
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as Yasu Hiruta
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Age: 38