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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.
Movie | Hachiko | Tabacco shop owner | 1987-08-01 |
Movie | Miss Lonely | Fuki Inoue | 1985-04-12 |
Movie | The Cold-Hearted Sea | Unknown | 1984-11-17 |
Movie | Before Spring | Toyo | 1980-09-20 |
Movie | Tora-san's Pure Love | Unknown | 1976-12-25 |
Movie | Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director | Unknown | 1975-05-24 |
Series | White Runway | Unknown | 1974-04-05 |
Movie | The Izu Dancer | 1974-12-28 | |
Movie | Stray Dog | Unknown | 1973-09-29 |
Movie | Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori | Tsue | 1972-12-09 |
Movie | Adults Games | Unknown | 1971-01-27 |
Series | Kininaru Yomesan | Unknown | 1971-10-06 |
Movie | The Secret Ceremony | Unknown | 1971-06-23 |
Movie | The Final Gamble | Unknown | 1970-02-11 |
Movie | 喜劇 右向けェ左! | Unknown | 1970-12-31 |
Movie | Girl in College | Unknown | 1969-03-30 |
Movie | Gateway to Glory | Unknown | 1969-07-12 |
Movie | The Bad Guy Blues | Unknown | 1969-08-27 |
Movie | I Sell My Husband | Unknown | 1968-11-09 |
Movie | Flower Cards Chivalry | Unknown | 1967-03-10 |
Movie | Yanagase Blues | Kane Sasagawa | 1967-09-15 |
Movie | Two in the Shadow | Unknown | 1967-11-18 |
Movie | Eyes, the Sea and a Ball | Unknown | 1967-09-30 |
Movie | Four and A Half Mats | Riku | 1966-02-17 |
Movie | Women Doing Time | Unknown | 1966-03-05 |
Movie | Moment of Terror | Hisako Kanematsu | 1966-04-16 |
Movie | Game of Chance | Sugi | 1966-10-22 |
Movie | The Pretty Jade | Unknown | 1966-09-17 |
Movie | Nocturnal Lights | Unknown | 1966-06-19 |
Movie | Dupe | Unknown | 1965-10-01 |
Movie | Color | Unknown | 1965-06-13 |
Movie | Chained Bitch | Unknown | 1965-10-15 |
Movie | The Passionate Spinster | Tokiko Tsurukawa | 1965-11-23 |
Movie | An Innocent Witch | Unknown | 1965-10-30 |
Movie | Secret Club 000 | Unknown | 1965-12-04 |
Movie | Jakoman and Tetsu | Taka | 1964-02-08 |
Movie | Yearning | Bar Madam | 1964-01-15 |
Movie | Destroyer Yukikaze | Unknown | 1964-02-16 |
Movie | Night Scandal | Shino | 1964-07-11 |
Movie | Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp | Unknown | 1963-06-23 |
Movie | Teinen Taishoku | Unknown | 1963-03-01 |
Movie | 18 Roughs | Gin Ishii | 1963-09-11 |
Movie | 湖愁 | Unknown | 1962-03-11 |
Movie | Eriko | Oshima | 1962-03-25 |
Movie | Teppo Yasu no Shogai | Unknown | 1962-02-21 |
Movie | Night Mist Makes Women Cry | Yoshi Namikawa | 1962-02-04 |
Movie | Nippon no obaachan | Waka | 1962-01-03 |
Movie | The Broken Commandment | Owner of the hotel | 1962-04-06 |
Movie | Haru no sanmyaku | Unknown | 1962-02-17 |
Movie | Kono ni uruwashi | Unknown | 1962-03-18 |
Movie | Being Two Isn't Easy | Ino | 1962-11-18 |
Movie | Sarari man donto bushi - Kiraku na kagyô to kita monda | Unknown | 1962-05-12 |
Movie | Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi | Unknown | 1962-12-30 |
Movie | The Body | Unknown | 1962-11-08 |
Movie | Nippon Irresponsible Guy | Unknown | 1962-12-23 |
Movie | Kyū-chan ondo | Unknown | 1962-07-01 |
Movie | Gakusei geisha koi to kenka | Unknown | 1962-09-01 |
Movie | Refresher Course for Wives | Unknown | 1961-08-13 |
Movie | Love's Family Tree | Unknown | 1961-11-22 |
Movie | Victory and Defeat | Sato | 1960-04-27 |
Movie | White Cliffs | Unknown | 1960-04-05 |
Movie | A Woman's Testament | Unknown | 1960-01-14 |
Movie | Storm on the Silvery Peaks | Old woman | 1960-04-29 |
Movie | The Song Lantern | Unknown | 1960-05-18 |
Movie | Tsukinode no ketto | Otani | 1960-11-16 |
Movie | The Woman Who Touched Legs | Unknown | 1960-08-24 |
Movie | Scarred Yosaburo | Unknown | 1960-07-10 |
Movie | The Song of the Cart | Unknown | 1959-02-11 |
Movie | The Makioka Sisters | Unknown | 1959-01-14 |
Movie | Diary of a Substitute Doctor | Unknown | 1959-05-27 |
Movie | Goodbye, Hello | Unknown | 1959-01-03 |
Movie | When a Woman Loves | Otome | 1959-09-24 |
Movie | Floating Weeds | Shige | 1959-11-17 |
Movie | Tokyo Omnibus | Unknown | 1959-10-30 |
Movie | Mother | Unknown | 1958-03-05 |
Movie | Stakeout | Proprietress of the Hotel Hizen-ya | 1958-01-15 |
Movie | Futari dake no hashi | Unknown | 1958-03-05 |
Movie | The Precipice | Unknown | 1958-03-17 |
Movie | A Grain of Wheat | Unknown | 1958-09-14 |
Movie | Confronting Fear | Unknown | 1958-07-20 |
Movie | Typhoon Over Nagasaki | Unknown | 1957-02-06 |
Movie | Itohan Monogatari | Okô | 1957-01-15 |
Movie | 続二等兵物語 決戦体制の巻 | Unknown | 1957-03-26 |
Movie | Young Lovers | Unknown | 1957-01-03 |
Movie | Inazuma Kaidō | Unknown | 1957-09-21 |
Movie | Snow Country | Unknown | 1957-04-30 |
Movie | Fighting Letter for 29 People | Unknown | 1957-06-04 |
Movie | Elegy of the North | Grandma | 1957-09-01 |
Movie | Tokyo Twilight | Komatsu's Mistress | 1957-04-30 |
Movie | Yaneura no Onna-tachi | Unknown | 1956-05-14 |
Movie | Street of Shame | Otane | 1956-03-18 |
Movie | Early Spring | Shige Kitagawa | 1956-01-29 |
Movie | Twice on a Certain Night | Unknown | 1956-06-08 |
Movie | 俺は死なない | Unknown | 1956-08-21 |
Movie | Sound in the Mist | Unknown | 1956-11-21 |
Movie | Children Seeking a Mother | Unknown | 1956-08-08 |
Movie | Training Ship of Yearning | Unknown | 1956-10-10 |
Movie | Bridge of Japan | Unknown | 1956-10-01 |
Movie | A Woman's Life | Nobuko's mother | 1955-01-29 |
Movie | The Magistrate | Unknown | 1955-03-25 |
Movie | A Man Among Men | Okimi | 1955-01-03 |
Movie | Fantasy of Youth | Unknown | 1955-04-19 |
Movie | She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum | Grandmother | 1955-11-29 |
Movie | (Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home | Masa | 1955-06-21 |
Movie | Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree | Tomi | 1955-10-05 |
Movie | The Refugee | Unknown | 1955-05-03 |
Movie | The Golden Demon | Tose | 1954-03-21 |
Movie | Koina no Ginpei | Unknown | 1954-01-15 |
Movie | The Story of Shunkin | Unknown | 1954-06-27 |
Movie | A Certain Woman | Tome | 1954-03-13 |
Movie | Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced | Unknown | 1954-07-13 |
Movie | Twenty-Four Eyes | Otoko Sensei no Tsuma | 1954-09-15 |
Movie | Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky | Shige, Ryoichi's stepmother | 1954-11-23 |
Movie | An Heir's Place | Unknown | 1953-06-03 |
Movie | Where Chimneys Are Seen | Kayo Nojima | 1953-03-05 |
Movie | Bot-chan | Kiyo | 1953-06-15 |
Movie | Brother and Sister | Riki - the Mother | 1953-08-19 |
Movie | The Wild Geese | Otsune | 1953-09-15 |
Movie | 母子鶴 | Onao | 1952-07-03 |
Movie | 母山彦 | Unknown | 1952-04-24 |
Movie | A Ripple in a Morning | Unknown | 1952-05-01 |
Movie | Shi no machi wo nogarete | Unknown | 1952-05-22 |
Movie | Ikiru | Tatsu Watanabe | 1952-10-09 |
Movie | Kanpai! Tokyo Musume | Unknown | 1952-12-17 |
Movie | Lightning | Osei | 1952-10-09 |
Movie | Hibari no komoriuta | Unknown | 1951-09-21 |
Movie | Repast | Taniguchi Shige | 1951-11-23 |
Movie | The Life of a Horse Trader | Onobu | 1951-12-07 |
Movie | Wedding March | Auntie | 1951-12-28 |
Movie | Duel in the Sun | Boarding house landlady | 1950-03-07 |
Movie | Snow-Flake | Unknown | 1950-05-17 |
Movie | Portrait of Madame Yuki | San | 1950-10-21 |
Movie | A Mother's Love | Unknown | 1950-06-27 |
Movie | Oogonju | Connie Sonobe's mother | 1950-11-04 |
Movie | The Rainbow Man | Kane Nonomura | 1949-07-18 |
Movie | Ginza Cancan Girls | Unknown | 1949-08-16 |
Movie | Akireta musumetachi | Unknown | 1949-10-11 |
Movie | Women of the Night | Brothel-keeper | 1948-05-26 |
Movie | Nocturnal Gate | Unknown | 1948-10-02 |
Movie | Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu | Unknown | 1947-03-04 |
Movie | Aru yo no seppun | Takako | 1946-05-23 |
Movie | A face glowing at night | Unknown | 1946-06-13 |
Movie | Saigo no kikyō | Unknown | 1945-07-26 |
Movie | Who Is the Criminal? | Unknown | 1945-12-27 |
Movie | The Tiger of Malaya | Tomi | 1943-06-24 |
Movie | The Man From Chungking | 妻とよ | 1943-11-11 |
Movie | New Snow | Unknown | 1942-10-01 |
Movie | Passion to Soar | Unknown | 1941-11-30 |
Movie | Ah, My Hometown | Unknown | 1938-10-06 |
Movie | The Straits of Love and Hate | Ume | 1937-06-17 |
Movie | Tsuki yori no shisha | Unknown | 1934-03-29 |
Movie | The Feast of Gion | Unknown | 1933-08-31 |
Movie | The Water Magician | Ogin | 1933-06-01 |
Movie | The 26 Martyrs of Japan | Ohisa, Mother of Antonio | 1931-10-01 |
Movie | And Yet They Go On | Unknown | 1931-06-12 |
Movie | Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen | Unknown | 1931-10-30 |
Movie | Mistress of a Foreigner | Omatsu | 1930-07-01 |
Movie | Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue | Otoku | 1927-12-30 |
Movie | Seisaku no tsuma | Unknown | 1924-01-02 |
Movie | Moken no himitsu | Unknown | 1924-03-14 |
Movie | Osumi and Her Mother | Unknown | 1924-06-29 |
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