Kumeko Urabe
Known for: Acting
Born: October 5, 1902
Died: October 26, 1989
Place of birth: Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
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.
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Filmography
235 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first
7.8
Hachiko
1987
7.0
Checkers in Tan Tan tanuki
1985
7.2
Lonely Heart
1985
NR
The Cold-Hearted Sea
1984
10.0
Lovely Days
1984
5.7
Before Spring
1980
9.2
Tora-san's Pure Love
1976
7.2
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1975
NR
White Runway
1974
7.9
Stray Dog
1973
NR
Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
1972
NR
Kininaru Yomesan
1971
8.0
The Secret Ceremony
1971
NR
Adults Games
1971
NR
喜劇 右向けェ左！
1970
9.0
Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back
1970
NR
The Final Gamble
1970
7.0
The Bad Guy Blues
1969
NR
Girl in College
1969
8.0
Season of Tears
1969
NR
Twenty-One Concubines: The Life of a Pervert
1969
NR
River Of Love
1969
9.0
I Sell My Husband
1968
NR
Happiness For You — Sentimental Boy
1967
7.8
Two in the Shadow
1967
7.5
Eyes, the Sea and a Ball
1967
NR
Yanagase Blues
1967
10.0
Flower Cards Chivalry
1967
6.5
Game of Chance
1966
NR
The Pretty Jade
1966
NR
Nocturnal Lights
1966
5.9
Moment of Terror
1966
NR
Women Doing Time
1966
NR
Four and A Half Mats
1966
NR
Secret Club 000
1965
NR
The Passionate Spinster
1965
7.2
An Innocent Witch
1965
NR
Chained Bitch
1965
9.0
Dupe
1965
NR
Color
1965
8.0
Night Scandal
1964
NR
Destroyer Yukikaze
1964
7.5
Jakoman and Tetsu
1964
8.1
Yearning
1964
7.0
We Are Salarymen
1963
6.7
18 Roughs
1963
9.0
Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp
1963
NR
Uogashi no senpū musume
1963
NR
Teinen Taishoku
1963
NR
Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
1962
8.5
Irresponsible Rascal of Japan
1962
6.9
Being Two Isn't Easy
1962
7.3
The Body
1962
NR
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
1962
NR
Kyū-chan ondo
1962
NR
The Salaryman's Carefree Life: What a Relaxed Job This Is!
1962
6.8
The Broken Commandment
1962NR
Eriko
1962
NR
Kono ni uruwashi
1962
NR
Koshū
1962
NR
Teppo Yasu no Shogai
1962
NR
Haru no sanmyaku
19628.0
Night Mist Makes Women Cry
1962
7.0
Nippon no obaachan
1962NR
Ganpā kachō
1961
NR
Love's Family Tree
1961
NR
Refresher Course for Wives
1961
NR
Love and the Shop Curtain
1961
NR
The Legendary Hell
1960
7.0
Tsukinode no ketto
1960
7.0
The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
9.0
Scarred Yosaburo
1960
NR
Irohanihoheto
1960
9.0
The Song Lantern
1960
NR
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
1960
8.0
Victory and Defeat
1960
NR
White Cliffs
1960
6.4
A Woman's Testament
1960
8.0
When a Woman Loves
1960
7.5
Floating Weeds
1959
NR
Tokyo Omnibus
1959
NR
Hear My Mother's Cry
1959
NR
Blind Love
1959NR
Romance of a Ferry Man
1959
NR
Diary of a Substitute Doctor
1959
6.9
The Song of the Cart
1959
8.5
The Makioka Sisters
1959
7.5
Goodbye, Hello
1959
NR
Yurakucho 0 Street
1958
NR
A Grain of Wheat
1958
7.0
Flower's Yearning
1958
NR
Confronting Fear
1958
NR
The Cat Knew
1958
9.0
The Precipice
1958
NR
A Bridge for Two Alone
1958
NR
Mother
1958
NR
Hibi no haishin
1958
7.1
Stakeout
1958
NR
Tokyo Eyes
1958
NR
Inazuma Kaidō
1957
NR
Monkey Business
1957
6.1
Elegy of the North
1957
NR
Fighting Letter for 29 People
1957
6.7
Snow Country
1957
7.7
Tokyo Twilight
1957NR
続二等兵物語 決戦体制の巻
1957
6.2
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
1957
7.0
Itohan Monogatari
1957
NR
Young Lovers
1957
7.5
Sound in the Mist
1956
NR
Here It is Quiet
1956
NR
Training Ship of Yearning
1956
7.8
Bridge of Japan
1956
NR
俺は死なない
1956
NR
Children Seeking a Mother
1956
NR
Asashio yushio
1956
9.0
Sound of Youth
1956
10.0
Twice on a Certain Night
1956
NR
Yaneura no Onna-tachi
1956
NR
刑事部屋
1956
7.7
Street of Shame
1956
NR
The Spoiled Brat President
1956
7.5
Early Spring
1956
7.0
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955
NR
Youth
1955
8.0
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955
NR
Troupers of Asakusa
1955
9.0
House of Many Pleasures
1955
NR
The Refugee
1955
NR
Fantasy of Youth
1955
NR
The Magistrate
1955
NR
A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
1955
NR
A Woman's Life
1955
8.0
A Man Among Men
1955
NR
Victory or Defeat
1954
6.8
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
1954
NR
The Moon Over the Ruined Castle
1954
7.7
Twenty-Four Eyes
1954
NR
Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
1954
6.3
The Story of Shunkin
1954
8.0
東京シンデレラ娘
1954
9.0
The Golden Demon
1954
7.0
A Certain Woman
1954NR
Four Mothers
1954
NR
Koina no Ginpei
1954
NR
Shinzōyaburi no oka
1954
NR
Haha no mizūmi
1953
NR
To the Ends of the Earth
1953
NR
Asakusa monogatari
1953
6.7
The Wild Geese
1953
NR
Shunsetsu no mon
1953
6.3
Brother and Sister
1953
10.0
Bot-chan
1953
10.0
An Heir's Place
1953
NR
Hiren tsubaki
1953
6.6
Where Chimneys Are Seen
1953NR
Kettō gofun mae
1953
NR
Kanpai! Tokyo Musume
1952
NR
Machi no kotengu
1952
9.0
Oka wa hanazakari
1952
NR
Forever My Love
1952
8.3
Ikiru
1952
7.3
Lightning
1952
NR
Hahakozuru
1952
8.0
Escape from the City of Death
1952
7.0
A Ripple in a Morning
1952
NR
Haha yamahiko
1952
NR
Yobiko hoshi
1952
NR
Dokuja-tō kidan: Joōbachi
1952
NR
Mabuta no haha
1952
10.0
Wedding March
1951
6.8
The Life of a Horse Trader
1951
7.6
Repast
1951
NR
Tokyo Elegy
1951
6.0
Hibari no komoriuta
1951
NR
Dorei no machi
1951
NR
Koi no Oranda-zaka
1951NR
Fire Department
1951NR
Shimai hoshi
1950
NR
Shinju fujin: Hitozuma no maki
1950NR
Golden Beast
1950
6.8
Portrait of Madame Yuki
1950
NR
Shinju fujin: Shojo no maki
1950NR
A Mother's Love
1950
7.5
Snow-Flake
1950NR
Tsuma mo koisu
1950
NR
Duel in the Sun
1950
NR
Koga Manshion
1949NR
Onna goroshi abura jigoku
1949
NR
Akireta musumetachi
1949NR
Hana no jitsugetsu
1949
10.0
Ginza Cancan Girls
1949NR
Full Moon
1949
6.2
The Rainbow Man
1949
NR
Hills of a Foreign Country
1949
NR
Three Mothers
1949
NR
Arashi no naka no shimai
1949
NR
Kenji to onnakanshu
1949
NR
Nocturnal Gate
1948
7.1
Women of the Night
1948
NR
The Little Green Box
1947NR
First Love Story
1947NR
Female Prisoner #36
1947
NR
The 99th Bride
1947
NR
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
1947
NR
The Monk Who Became a Raccoon Dog
1946
NR
Convent Bride
1946NR
Kimi ka to omohite
1946
NR
A Face Glowing at Night
1946
NR
Aru yo no seppun
1946NR
Kare to kanojo wa iku
1946NR
Machi no ninkisha
1946NR
瓢箪から出た駒
1946NR
Iku-san ga
1946
NR
Who Is the Criminal?
1945
NR
Saigo no kikyō
1945
NR
The Man From Chungking
1943
7.0
The Tiger of Malaya
1943
NR
Genghis Khan
1943
8.0
New Snow
1942NR
Passion to Soar
1941NR
Ie naki musume
19399.0
Ah, My Hometown
1938
7.4
The Straits of Love and Hate
1937
NR
Tsuki yori no shisha
1934
7.5
The Feast of Gion
1933
7.3
The Water Magician
1933
7.0
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
1931
7.0
The 26 Martyrs of Japan
1931
9.0
And Yet They Go On
19316.3
Mistress of a Foreigner
1930
6.0
Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue
1927NR
日輪 前篇
19266.5
Osumi and Her Mother
19248.0
Moken no himitsu
1924NR
Seisaku no tsuma
1924NR
Kakute ninjutsu eiga wa owarinu
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