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Kumeko Urabe
Born · October 5, 1902
Died · October 26, 1989 (87 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Bio
Kumeko Urabe (Japanese: 浦辺粂子), born Kimura Kume ((木村 くめ)), (October 5, 1902 – October 26, 1989) was a Japanese movie actress, one of the first in the country. She worked on stage and in film and television. Urabe was born in a rural part of the Shizuoka Prefecture. She lived in several homes while growing up, as she relocated with her father, a Buddhist priest, among the temples to which he was assigned. Urabe completed her education in Numazu, and left school in 1919 to join a theatre company, touring under various stage names as an actor and dancer. In 1923, Urabe auditioned at the film studio Nikkatsu, and adopted the name Kumeko Urabe, by which she was known for the rest of her life. She appeared in her first film the following year, and continued to act until 1987. She worked with such directors as Kenji Mizoguchi and Mikio Naruse, and performed in over 320 films, including Ikiru, Older Brother, Younger Sister, Portrait of Madame Yuki, She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum, and Street of Shame. She also starred in television dramas, including thirteen episodes of Toshiba Sunday Theatre between 1958 and 1980. In the following decade, she carved a niche as a Grandma idol, until her death in 1989.
Hachiko
Tabacco shop owner
7.7
1987
Miss Lonely
Fuki Inoue
7.0
1985
The Cold-Hearted Sea
0.0
1984
Before Spring
Toyo
5.2
1980
Tora-san's Pure Love
8.5
1976
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
6.8
1975
White Runway
(26 episodes)
0.0
1974
Stray Dog
7.0
1973
Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
Tsue
0.0
1972
Kininaru Yomesan
(2 episodes)
0.0
1971
The Secret Ceremony
0.0
1971
Adults Games
0.0
1971
喜劇 右向けェ左！
0.0
1970
The Final Gamble
0.0
1970
The Bad Guy Blues
0.0
1969
Gateway to Glory
7.5
1969
Girl in College
0.0
1969
I Sell My Husband
0.0
1968
Two in the Shadow
7.7
1967
Eyes, the Sea and a Ball
5.0
1967
Yanagase Blues
Kane Sasagawa
0.0
1967
Flower Cards Chivalry
10.0
1967
Game of Chance
Sugi
6.0
1966
The Pretty Jade
0.0
1966
Nocturnal Lights
0.0
1966
Moment of Terror
Hisako Kanematsu
6.3
1966
Women Doing Time
0.0
1966
Four and A Half Mats
Riku
0.0
1966
Secret Club 000
0.0
1965
The Passionate Spinster
Tokiko Tsurukawa
0.0
1965
An Innocent Witch
7.1
1965
Chained Bitch
0.0
1965
Dupe
0.0
1965
Color
0.0
1965
Night Scandal
Shino
0.0
1964
Destroyer Yukikaze
0.0
1964
Jakoman and Tetsu
Taka
6.0
1964
Yearning
Bar Madam
8.1
1964
18 Roughs
Gin Ishii
6.6
1963
Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp
8.0
1963
Uogashi no senpū musume
0.0
1963
Teinen Taishoku
0.0
1963
Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
0.0
1962
Nippon Irresponsible Guy
8.0
1962
Being Two Isn't Easy
Ino
6.8
1962
The Body
6.5
1962
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
0.0
1962
Kyū-chan ondo
0.0
1962
Sarari man donto bushi - Kiraku na kagyô to kita monda
0.0
1962
The Broken Commandment
Owner of the hotel
6.6
1962
Eriko
Oshima
0.0
1962
Kono ni uruwashi
0.0
1962
湖愁
0.0
1962
Teppo Yasu no Shogai
0.0
1962
Haru no sanmyaku
0.0
1962
Night Mist Makes Women Cry
Yoshi Namikawa
0.0
1962
Nippon no obaachan
Waka
0.0
1962
Love's Family Tree
0.0
1961
Refresher Course for Wives
0.0
1961
Tsukinode no ketto
Otani
0.0
1960
The Woman Who Touched Legs
6.0
1960
Scarred Yosaburo
0.0
1960
The Song Lantern
0.0
1960
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
Old woman
0.0
1960
Victory and Defeat
Sato
0.0
1960
White Cliffs
0.0
1960
A Woman's Testament
5.8
1960
Floating Weeds
Shige
7.5
1959
Tokyo Omnibus
0.0
1959
When a Woman Loves
Otome
0.0
1959
Diary of a Substitute Doctor
0.0
1959
The Song of the Cart
6.6
1959
The Makioka Sisters
8.0
1959
Goodbye, Hello
6.0
1959
A Grain of Wheat
0.0
1958
Confronting Fear
0.0
1958
The Precipice
0.0
1958
Futari dake no hashi
0.0
1958
Mother
0.0
1958
Stakeout
Proprietress of the Hotel Hizen-ya
6.9
1958
Tokyo Eyes
0.0
1958
Inazuma Kaidō
0.0
1957
Elegy of the North
Grandma
6.0
1957
Fighting Letter for 29 People
0.0
1957
Snow Country
6.7
1957
Tokyo Twilight
Komatsu's Mistress
7.7
1957
続二等兵物語 決戦体制の巻
0.0
1957
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
6.2
1957
Itohan Monogatari
Okô
0.0
1957
Young Lovers
0.0
1957
Sound in the Mist
0.0
1956
Training Ship of Yearning
0.0
1956
Bridge of Japan
7.3
1956
俺は死なない
0.0
1956
Children Seeking a Mother
0.0
1956
Twice on a Certain Night
0.0
1956
Yaneura no Onna-tachi
0.0
1956
刑事部屋
0.0
1956
Street of Shame
Otane
7.7
1956
Early Spring
Shige Kitagawa
7.5
1956
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Grandmother
7.0
1955
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Tomi
0.0
1955
(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
Masa
0.0
1955
The Refugee
0.0
1955
Fantasy of Youth
0.0
1955
The Magistrate
0.0
1955
A Woman's Life
Nobuko's mother
0.0
1955
A Man Among Men
Okimi
0.0
1955
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Shige, Ryoichi's stepmother
6.0
1954
Twenty-Four Eyes
Otoko Sensei no Tsuma
7.7
1954
Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
0.0
1954
The Story of Shunkin
5.0
1954
The Golden Demon
Tose
0.0
1954
A Certain Woman
Tome
0.0
1954
Koina no Ginpei
0.0
1954
The Wild Geese
Otsune
6.5
1953
Brother and Sister
Riki - the Mother
6.6
1953
Bot-chan
Kiyo
10.0
1953
An Heir's Place
0.0
1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Kayo Nojima
6.4
1953
Kanpai! Tokyo Musume
0.0
1952
Ikiru
Tatsu Watanabe
8.3
1952
Lightning
Osei
7.2
1952
母子鶴
Onao
0.0
1952
Shi no machi wo nogarete
0.0
1952
A Ripple in a Morning
0.0
1952
母山彦
0.0
1952
Wedding March
Auntie
0.0
1951
The Life of a Horse Trader
Onobu
7.0
1951
Repast
Taniguchi Shige
7.5
1951
Hibari no komoriuta
6.0
1951
Oogonju
Connie Sonobe's mother
0.0
1950
Portrait of Madame Yuki
San
6.7
1950
A Mother's Love
0.0
1950
Snow-Flake
8.0
1950
Duel in the Sun
Boarding house landlady
0.0
1950
Akireta musumetachi
0.0
1949
Ginza Cancan Girls
0.0
1949
The Rainbow Man
Kane Nonomura
6.7
1949
Nocturnal Gate
0.0
1948
Women of the Night
Brothel Keeper
7.2
1948
Women of the Night
Brothel-keeper
7.2
1948
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
0.0
1947
A face glowing at night
0.0
1946
Aru yo no seppun
Takako
0.0
1946
Who Is the Criminal?
0.0
1945
Saigo no kikyō
0.0
1945
The Man From Chungking
妻とよ
0.0
1943
The Tiger of Malaya
Tomi
0.0
1943
New Snow
0.0
1942
Passion to Soar
0.0
1941
Ah, My Hometown
0.0
1938
The Straits of Love and Hate
Ume
7.2
1937
Tsuki yori no shisha
0.0
1934
The Feast of Gion
5.0
1933
The Water Magician
Ogin
7.2
1933
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
0.0
1931
The 26 Martyrs of Japan
Ohisa, Mother of Antonio
0.0
1931
And Yet They Go On
0.0
1931
Mistress of a Foreigner
Omatsu
6.2
1930
Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue
Otoku
6.0
1927
Osumi and Her Mother
6.5
1924
Moken no himitsu
0.0
1924
Seisaku no tsuma
0.0
1924