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