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 | 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 | 1975-05-24 | |
Movie | The Izu Dancer | 1974-12-28 | |
Movie | Stray Dog | Unknown | 1973-09-29 |
Movie | Adults Games | Unknown | 1971-01-27 |
Movie | The Secret Ceremony | 1971-06-23 | |
Movie | Gateway to Glory | Unknown | 1969-07-12 |
Movie | Two in the Shadow | Unknown | 1967-11-18 |
Movie | Moment of Terror | Hisako Kanematsu | 1966-04-16 |
Movie | Game of Chance | Sugi | 1966-10-22 |
Movie | An Innocent Witch | Unknown | 1965-10-30 |
Movie | Yearning | Bar Madam | 1964-01-15 |
Movie | Jakoman and Tetsu | Taka | 1964-02-08 |
Movie | 18 Roughs | Gin Ishii | 1963-09-11 |
Movie | Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp | 1963-06-23 | |
Movie | Nippon no obaachan | Waka | 1962-01-03 |
Movie | Being Two Isn't Easy | Ino | 1962-11-18 |
Movie | The Broken Commandment | Owner of the hotel | 1962-04-06 |
Movie | Love's Family Tree | Unknown | 1961-11-22 |
Movie | A Woman's Testament | 1960-01-14 | |
Movie | Tsukinode no ketto | Otani | 1960-11-16 |
Movie | The Woman Who Touched Legs | 1960-08-24 | |
Movie | The Song of the Cart | Unknown | 1959-02-11 |
Movie | The Makioka Sisters | Unknown | 1959-01-14 |
Movie | When a Woman Loves | Otome | 1959-09-24 |
Movie | Floating Weeds | Shige | 1959-11-17 |
Movie | Stakeout | Proprietress of the Hotel Hizen-ya | 1958-01-15 |
Movie | The Precipice | 1958-03-17 | |
Movie | Typhoon Over Nagasaki | Unknown | 1957-02-06 |
Movie | Snow Country | 1957-04-30 | |
Movie | Elegy of the North | Grandma | 1957-09-01 |
Movie | Tokyo Twilight | Komatsu's Mistress | 1957-04-30 |
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 | Training Ship of Yearning | Unknown | 1956-10-10 |
Movie | Bridge of Japan | 1956-10-01 | |
Movie | She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum | Grandmother | 1955-11-29 |
Movie | A Certain Woman | Tome | 1954-03-13 |
Movie | The Golden Demon | Tose | 1954-03-21 |
Movie | Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky | Shige, Ryoichi's stepmother | 1954-11-23 |
Movie | The Story of Shunkin | Unknown | 1954-06-27 |
Movie | Where Chimneys Are Seen | Kayo Nojima | 1953-03-05 |
Movie | Bot-chan | Kiyo | 1953-06-15 |
Movie | The Wild Geese | Otsune | 1953-09-15 |
Movie | Brother and Sister | Riki - the Mother | 1953-08-19 |
Movie | A Ripple in a Morning | Unknown | 1952-05-01 |
Movie | Shi no machi wo nogarete | Unknown | 1952-05-22 |
Movie | Lightning | Osei | 1952-10-09 |
Movie | 母子鶴 | Onao | 1952-07-03 |
Movie | Hibari no komoriuta | Unknown | 1951-09-21 |
Movie | The Life of a Horse Trader | Onobu | 1951-12-07 |
Movie | Repast | Taniguchi Shige | 1951-11-23 |
Movie | A Mother's Love | 1950-06-27 | |
Movie | Portrait of Madame Yuki | San | 1950-10-21 |
Movie | Ginza Cancan Girls | 1949-08-16 | |
Movie | The Rainbow Man | Kane Nonomura | 1949-07-18 |
Movie | Women of the Night | Brothel-keeper | 1948-05-26 |
Movie | The Tiger of Malaya | Tomi | 1943-06-24 |
Movie | New Snow | Unknown | 1942-10-01 |
Movie | Ah, My Hometown | 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 Water Magician | Ogin | 1933-06-01 |
Movie | The Feast of Gion | Unknown | 1933-08-31 |
Movie | And Yet They Go On | 1931-06-12 | |
Movie | The 26 Martyrs of Japan | Ohisa, Mother of Antonio | 1931-10-01 |
Movie | Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen | 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 | 1924-01-02 | |
Movie | Osumi and Her Mother | Unknown | 1924-06-29 |
Movie | Moken no himitsu | Unknown | 1924-03-14 |
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