Kumeko Urabe

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, 1902-10-05

Died: 1989-10-26

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1924	Seisaku no tsuma		0
2	1924	Moken no himitsu		0
3	1924	Osumi and Her Mother		65
4	1926	日輪　前篇		0
5	1927	Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue	Otoku	60
6	1930	Mistress of a Foreigner	Omatsu	62
7	1931	And Yet They Go On		0
8	1931	The 26 Martyrs of Japan	Ohisa, Mother of Antonio	0
9	1931	Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen		0
10	1933	The Water Magician	Ogin	72
11	1933	The Feast of Gion		50
12	1934	Tsuki yori no shisha		0
13	1937	The Straits of Love and Hate	Ume	72
14	1938	Ah, My Hometown		0
15	1939	Ie naki musume		0
16	1941	Passion to Soar		0
17	1942	New Snow		0
18	1943	The Tiger of Malaya	Tomi	0
19	1943	The Man From Chungking	妻とよ	0
20	1945	Saigo no kikyō		0
21	1945	Who Is the Criminal?		0
22	1946	Aru yo no seppun	Takako	0
23	1946	A face glowing at night		0
24	1947	Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu		0
25	1948	Women of the Night	Brothel Keeper	71
26	1948	Women of the Night	Brothel-keeper	71
27	1948	Nocturnal Gate		0
28	1949	The Rainbow Man	Kane Nonomura	67
29	1949	Ginza Cancan Girls		0
30	1949	Akireta musumetachi		0
31	1950	Duel in the Sun	Boarding house landlady	0
32	1950	Snow-Flake		80
33	1950	A Mother's Love		0
34	1950	Portrait of Madame Yuki	San	69
35	1950	Oogonju	Connie Sonobe's mother	0
36	1951	Hibari no komoriuta		60
37	1951	Repast	Taniguchi Shige	76
38	1951	The Life of a Horse Trader	Onobu	68
39	1951	Wedding March	Auntie	0
40	1952	母山彦		0
41	1952	A Ripple in a Morning		60
42	1952	Shi no machi wo nogarete		0
43	1952	母子鶴	Onao	0
44	1952	Ikiru	Tatsu Watanabe	83
45	1952	Lightning	Osei	72
46	1952	Kanpai! Tokyo Musume		0
47	1953	Where Chimneys Are Seen	Kayo Nojima	64
48	1953	An Heir's Place		0
49	1953	Bot-chan	Kiyo	100
50	1953	Brother and Sister	Riki - the Mother	66
51	1953	The Wild Geese	Otsune	65
52	1954	Koina no Ginpei		0
53	1954	A Certain Woman	Tome	0
54	1954	The Golden Demon	Tose	0
55	1954	The Story of Shunkin		50
56	1954	Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced		0
57	1954	Twenty-Four Eyes	Otoko Sensei no Tsuma	77
58	1954	Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky	Shige, Ryoichi's stepmother	60
59	1954	Victory or Defeat		0
60	1955	A Man Among Men	Okimi	0
61	1955	A Woman's Life	Nobuko's mother	0
62	1955	The Magistrate		0
63	1955	Fantasy of Youth		0
64	1955	The Refugee		0
65	1955	(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home	Masa	0
66	1955	Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree	Tomi	0
67	1955	She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum	Grandmother	70
68	1956	Early Spring	Shige Kitagawa	75
69	1956	Street of Shame	Otane	77
70	1956	刑事部屋		0
71	1956	Yaneura no Onna-tachi		0
72	1956	Twice on a Certain Night		0
73	1956	Children Seeking a Mother		0
74	1956	俺は死なない		0
75	1956	Bridge of Japan		73
76	1956	Training Ship of Yearning		0
77	1956	Sound in the Mist		0
78	1957	Young Lovers		0
79	1957	Itohan Monogatari	Okô	0
80	1957	Typhoon Over Nagasaki		62
81	1957	続二等兵物語　決戦体制の巻		0
82	1957	Snow Country		67
83	1957	Tokyo Twilight	Komatsu's Mistress	77
84	1957	Fighting Letter for 29 People		0
85	1957	Elegy of the North	Grandma	60
86	1957	Inazuma Kaidō		0
87	1958	Tokyo Eyes		0
88	1958	Stakeout	Proprietress of the Hotel Hizen-ya	69
89	1958	日日の背信		0
90	1958	A Bridge for Two Alone		0
91	1958	Mother		0
92	1958	The Precipice		0
93	1958	Confronting Fear		0
94	1958	A Grain of Wheat		0
95	1959	Goodbye, Hello		60
96	1959	The Makioka Sisters		80
97	1959	The Song of the Cart		66
98	1959	Diary of a Substitute Doctor		0
99	1959	When a Woman Loves	Otome	0
100	1959	Tokyo Omnibus		0
101	1959	Floating Weeds	Shige	75
102	1960	A Woman's Testament		58
103	1960	White Cliffs		0
104	1960	Victory and Defeat	Sato	0
105	1960	Storm on the Silvery Peaks	Old woman	0
106	1960	The Song Lantern		0
107	1960	Irohanihoheto		0
108	1960	Scarred Yosaburo		0
109	1960	The Woman Who Touched Legs		60
110	1960	Tsukinode no ketto	Otani	0
111	1961	Love and the Shop Curtain		0
112	1961	Refresher Course for Wives		0
113	1961	Love's Family Tree		0
114	1962	Nippon no obaachan	Waka	0
115	1962	Night Mist Makes Women Cry	Yoshi Namikawa	0
116	1962	Haru no sanmyaku		0
117	1962	Teppo Yasu no Shogai		0
118	1962	湖愁		0
119	1962	Kono ni uruwashi		0
120	1962	Eriko	Oshima	0
121	1962	The Broken Commandment	Owner of the hotel	66
122	1962	Sarari man donto bushi - Kiraku na kagyô to kita monda		0
123	1962	Kyū-chan ondo		0
124	1962	Gakusei geisha koi to kenka		0
125	1962	The Body		65
126	1962	Being Two Isn't Easy	Ino	68
127	1962	Irresponsible Rascal of Japan		80
128	1962	Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi		0
129	1963	Teinen Taishoku		0
130	1963	Uogashi no senpū musume		0
131	1963	Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp		80
132	1963	18 Roughs	Gin Ishii	66
133	1964	Yearning	Bar Madam	81
134	1964	Jakoman and Tetsu	Taka	60
135	1964	Destroyer Yukikaze		0
136	1964	Night Scandal	Shino	0
137	1965	Color		0
138	1965	Dupe		0
139	1965	Chained Bitch		0
140	1965	An Innocent Witch		71
141	1965	The Passionate Spinster	Tokiko Tsurukawa	0
142	1965	Secret Club 000		0
143	1966	Four and A Half Mats	Riku	0
144	1966	Women Doing Time		0
145	1966	Moment of Terror	Hisako Kanematsu	63
146	1966	Nocturnal Lights		0
147	1966	The Pretty Jade		0
148	1966	Game of Chance	Sugi	60
149	1967	Flower Cards Chivalry		100
150	1967	Yanagase Blues	Kane Sasagawa	0
151	1967	Eyes, the Sea and a Ball		50
152	1967	Two in the Shadow		77
153	1968	I Sell My Husband		0
154	1969	Girl in College		0
155	1969	Gateway to Glory		75
156	1969	The Bad Guy Blues		0
157	1970	The Final Gamble		0
158	1970	喜劇右向けェ左！		0
159	1971	Adults Games		0
160	1971	The Secret Ceremony		0
161	1972	Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori	Tsue	0
162	1973	Stray Dog		70
163	1975	Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director		68
164	1976	Tora-san's Pure Love		85
165	1980	Before Spring	Toyo	52
166	1984	The Cold-Hearted Sea		0
167	1985	Miss Lonely	Fuki Inoue	70
168	1987	Hachiko	Tabacco Shop Owner	77

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	Kininaru Yomesan		0
2	1974	White Runway		0

Kumeko Urabe

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