Kumeko Urabe
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 5, 1902
- Died
- October 26, 1989 (aged 87)
- Birthplace
- Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Biography
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
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Filmography
Kakute ninjutsu eiga wa owarinu
Movie
Hachiko
Movie · as Tobacco Shop Owner
Lonely Heart
Movie · as Fuki Inoue
Checkers in Tan Tan tanuki
Movie
The Cold-Hearted Sea
Movie
Lovely Days
Movie · as Old lady
Before Spring
Movie · as Toyo
Tora-san's Pure Love
Movie
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Movie · as Self
White Runway
TV · 26 eps
Stray Dog
Movie
Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
Movie · as Tsue
Adults Games
Movie
The Secret Ceremony
Movie
Kininaru Yomesan
TV · 2 eps
喜劇 右向けェ左！
Movie
The Final Gamble
Movie
Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back
Movie
Girl in College
Movie
The Bad Guy Blues
Movie
River Of Love
Movie
Season of Tears
Movie
Twenty-One Concubines: The Life of a Pervert
Movie
I Sell My Husband
Movie
Two in the Shadow
Movie
Eyes, the Sea and a Ball
Movie
Flower Cards Chivalry
Movie
Yanagase Blues
Movie · as Kane Sasagawa
Happiness For You — Sentimental Boy
Movie
Nocturnal Lights
Movie
Women Doing Time
Movie
Four and A Half Mats
Movie · as Riku
The Pretty Jade
Movie
Moment of Terror
Movie · as Hisako Kanematsu
Game of Chance
Movie · as Sugi
Dupe
Movie
Secret Club 000
Movie
An Innocent Witch
Movie
The Passionate Spinster
Movie · as Tokiko Tsurukawa
Chained Bitch
Movie
Color
Movie
Night Scandal
Movie · as Shino
Yearning
Movie · as Bar Madam
Jakoman and Tetsu
Movie · as Taka
Destroyer Yukikaze
Movie
Geisha School
Movie
18 Roughs
Movie · as Gin Ishii
Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp
Movie
Teinen Taishoku
Movie
Uogashi no senpū musume
Movie
We Are Salarymen
Movie · as Shizuko Komuro (Eiichiro’s Mother)
The Salaryman's Carefree Life: What a Relaxed Job This Is!
Movie
Haru no sanmyaku
Movie
Teppo Yasu no Shogai
Movie
Koshū
Movie
Kono ni uruwashi
Movie
Irresponsible Rascal of Japan
Movie
The Broken Commandment
Movie · as Owner of the hotel
The Body
Movie
Being Two Isn't Easy
Movie · as Ino
Kyū-chan ondo
Movie
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
Movie
Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
Movie
Eriko
Movie · as Oshima
Nippon no obaachan
Movie · as Waka
Night Mist Makes Women Cry
Movie · as Yoshi Namikawa
Love's Family Tree
Movie
Refresher Course for Wives
Movie
Love and the Shop Curtain
Movie
Ganpā kachō
Movie
Tobidashita onna daimyō
Movie
Kōmori yashiki
Movie
Scarred Yosaburo
Movie
Victory and Defeat
Movie · as Sato
The Song Lantern
Movie
When a Woman Loves
Movie · as Otome
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Movie
A Woman's Testament
Movie
Tsukinode no ketto
Movie · as Otani
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
Movie · as Old woman
White Cliffs
Movie
Irohanihoheto
Movie
The Legendary Hell
Movie · as Osumi
Haha sakura
Movie
Floating Weeds
Movie · as Shige
The Makioka Sisters
Movie
The Song of the Cart
Movie
Tokyo Omnibus
Movie
Goodbye, Hello
Movie · as Restaurant owner
Diary of a Substitute Doctor
Movie
Blind Love
Movie
Hear My Mother's Cry
Movie
Romance of a Ferry Man
Movie
Nureta hitomi
Movie
Women's Classroom
Movie
Ittōsai wa sebangō 6
Movie
The Precipice
Movie
Confronting Fear
Movie
Stakeout
Movie · as Proprietress of the Hotel Hizen-ya
A Bridge for Two Alone
Movie
Mother
Movie
A Grain of Wheat
Movie
Tokyo Eyes
Movie
Hibi no haishin
Movie
Flower's Yearning
Movie · as Muraki Sawa
Yurakucho 0 Street
Movie · as Mother of A 16号
The Cat Knew
Movie
Okesa karasu
Movie
続二等兵物語 決戦体制の巻
Movie
Elegy of the North
Movie · as Grandma
Snow Country
Movie
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
Movie
Young Lovers
Movie
Tokyo Twilight
Movie · as Komatsu's Mistress
Itohan Monogatari
Movie · as Okô
Inazuma Kaidō
Movie
Fighting Letter for 29 People
Movie
Monkey Business
Movie · as Yone
Chūzaisho nikki
Movie
Early Spring
Movie · as Shige Kitagawa
Street of Shame
Movie · as Otane
Bridge of Japan
Movie
Sound in the Mist
Movie
俺は死なない
Movie
Training Ship of Yearning
Movie
Twice on a Certain Night
Movie
Yaneura no Onna-tachi
Movie
Children Seeking a Mother
Movie · as Older Woman
Headquarters of Crime Detection
Movie
The Spoiled Brat President
Movie
Sound of Youth
Movie
Here It is Quiet
Movie
Asashio yushio
Movie
The Buried Treasure
Movie
Studio wa ōsawagi
Movie
Horeruna Yanpachi
Movie
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Movie · as Grandmother
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Movie · as Tomi
House of Many Pleasures
Movie · as Masa
Fantasy of Youth
Movie
A Woman's Life
Movie · as Nobuko's mother
A Man Among Men
Movie · as Okimi
The Magistrate
Movie
The Refugee
Movie
Youth
Movie
A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
Movie
Troupers of Asakusa
Movie
Rōkyoku tengu dōjō
Movie
Ginji of the Seven Faces
Movie
Tenka o nerau bishōnen
Movie
Tokyo Gang
Movie
Shichinin no ani imōto
Movie
I Was Tokichiro
Movie
Koina no Ginpei
Movie
The Story of Shunkin
Movie
A Certain Woman
Movie · as Tome
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Movie · as Shige, Ryoichi's stepmother
Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
Movie
The Golden Demon
Movie · as Tose
Twenty-Four Eyes
Movie · as Otoko Sensei no Tsuma
Victory or Defeat
Movie
東京シンデレラ娘
Movie
Shinzōyaburi no oka
Movie
Four Mothers
Movie
The Moon Over the Ruined Castle
Movie
The Wild Geese
Movie · as Otsune
An Heir's Place
Movie
Brother and Sister
Movie · as Riki - the Mother
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Movie · as Kayo Nojima
Bot-chan
Movie · as Kiyo
Hiren tsubaki
Movie
Kettō gofun mae
Movie
Shunsetsu no mon
Movie
Asakusa monogatari
Movie
To the Ends of the Earth
Movie
Haha no mizūmi
Movie
Escape from the City of Death
Movie
Haha yamahiko
Movie
Ikiru
Movie · as Tatsu Watanabe
Lightning
Movie · as Osei
Kanpai! Tokyo Musume
Movie
Hahakozuru
Movie · as Onao
A Ripple in a Morning
Movie
Oka wa hanazakari
Movie
Mabuta no haha
Movie
Dokuja-tō kidan: Joōbachi
Movie
Yobiko hoshi
Movie
Forever My Love
Movie
Machi no kotengu
Movie
Wedding March
Movie · as Auntie
Hibari no komoriuta
Movie
Repast
Movie · as Taniguchi Shige
The Life of a Horse Trader
Movie · as Onobu
Fire Department
Movie
Koi no Oranda-zaka
Movie
Dorei no machi
Movie
Tokyo Elegy
Movie
Duel in the Sun
Movie · as Boarding house landlady
Golden Beast
Movie · as Connie Sonobe's mother
A Mother's Love
Movie
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Movie · as San
Snow-Flake
Movie
Shinju fujin: Shojo no maki
Movie
Shinju fujin: Hitozuma no maki
Movie
Tsuma mo koisu
Movie
Shimai hoshi
Movie
Ginza Cancan Girls
Movie
Akireta musumetachi
Movie
The Rainbow Man
Movie · as Kane Nonomura
Hills of a Foreign Country
Movie · as Iku
Koga Manshion
Movie
Kenji to onnakanshu
Movie
Arashi no naka no shimai
Movie
Three Mothers
Movie
Full Moon
Movie
Hana no jitsugetsu
Movie
Onna goroshi abura jigoku
Movie
Women of the Night
Movie · as Brothel Keeper
Nocturnal Gate
Movie
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
Movie
The 99th Bride
Movie
The Little Green Box
Movie
Female Prisoner #36
Movie
First Love Story
Movie
Aru yo no seppun
Movie · as Takako
A Face Glowing at Night
Movie
Iku-san ga
Movie
瓢箪から出た駒
Movie
Machi no ninkisha
Movie
Kare to kanojo wa iku
Movie
Kimi ka to omohite
Movie
Convent Bride
Movie
The Monk Who Became a Raccoon Dog
Movie
Saigo no kikyō
Movie
Who Is the Criminal?
Movie
The Man From Chungking
Movie · as 妻とよ
The Tiger of Malaya
Movie · as Tomi
Genghis Khan
Movie
New Snow
Movie
Passion to Soar
Movie
Ie naki musume
Movie
Ah, My Hometown
Movie
The Straits of Love and Hate
Movie · as Ume
Tsuki yori no shisha
Movie
The Feast of Gion
Movie
The Water Magician
Movie · as Ogin
The 26 Martyrs of Japan
Movie · as Ohisa, Mother of Antonio
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
Movie
And Yet They Go On
Movie
Mistress of a Foreigner
Movie · as Omatsu
Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue
Movie · as Otoku
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Movie
Moken no himitsu
Movie
Osumi and Her Mother
Movie
Seisaku no tsuma
Movie