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Birthday: Oct 05, 1902
Place of Birth: Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

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.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Early Spring Shige Kitagawa 1956
Hachiko Tabacco shop owner 1987
Scarred Yosaburo 1960
Nocturnal Lights 1966
Sarari man donto bushi - Kiraku na kagyô to kita monda 1962
Haru no sanmyaku 1962
Teppo Yasu no Shogai 1962
Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue Otoku 1927
Street of Shame Otane 1956
湖愁 1962
Victory and Defeat Sato 1960
Wedding March Auntie 1951
Kono ni uruwashi 1962
Duel in the Sun Boarding house landlady 1950
Oogonju Connie Sonobe's mother 1950
The Song Lantern 1960
Bridge of Japan 1956
Floating Weeds Shige 1959
Nippon Irresponsible Guy 1962
Dupe 1965
Koina no Ginpei 1954
The 26 Martyrs of Japan Ohisa, Mother of Antonio 1931
Women of the Night Brothel Keeper 1948
Aru yo no seppun Takako 1946
Women Doing Time 1966
Night Scandal Shino 1964
Girl in College 1969
The Broken Commandment Owner of the hotel 1962
Yearning Bar Madam 1964
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum Grandmother 1955
The Wild Geese Otsune 1953
The Body 1962
Ah, My Hometown 1938
Before Spring Toyo 1980
Being Two Isn't Easy Ino 1962
The Straits of Love and Hate Ume 1937
Hibari no komoriuta 1951
Kyū-chan ondo 1962
Moken no himitsu 1924
18 Roughs Gin Ishii 1963
The Story of Shunkin 1954
Secret Club 000 1965
Shi no machi wo nogarete 1952
When a Woman Loves Otome 1959
Sound in the Mist 1956
Mistress of a Foreigner Omatsu 1930
The Man From Chungking 妻とよ 1943
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu 1947
Osumi and Her Mother 1924
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka 1962
母山彦 1952
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree Tomi 1955
The Precipice 1958
Confronting Fear 1958
俺は死なない 1956
Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori Tsue 1972
喜劇 右向けェ左! 1970
An Heir's Place 1953
(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home Masa 1955
Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi 1962
Tsuki yori no shisha 1934
Ikiru Tatsu Watanabe 1952
A Certain Woman Tome 1954
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen 1931
Saigo no kikyō 1945
Four and A Half Mats Riku 1966
Lightning Osei 1952
Repast Taniguchi Shige 1951
Brother and Sister Riki - the Mother 1953
Ginza Cancan Girls 1949
Where Chimneys Are Seen Kayo Nojima 1953
The Pretty Jade 1966
Who Is the Criminal? 1945
A face glowing at night 1946
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky Shige, Ryoichi's stepmother 1954
The Makioka Sisters 1959
A Mother's Love 1950
Women of the Night Brothel-keeper 1948
Bot-chan Kiyo 1953
The Song of the Cart 1959
Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced 1954
続二等兵物語 決戦体制の巻 1957
Training Ship of Yearning 1956
Stakeout Proprietress of the Hotel Hizen-ya 1958
Miss Lonely Fuki Inoue 1985
An Innocent Witch 1965
Moment of Terror Hisako Kanematsu 1966
The Golden Demon Tose 1954
Eriko Oshima 1962
Kanpai! Tokyo Musume 1952
The Woman Who Touched Legs 1960
The Life of a Horse Trader Onobu 1951
Elegy of the North Grandma 1957
The Bad Guy Blues 1969
Two in the Shadow 1967
The Feast of Gion 1933
Jakoman and Tetsu Taka 1964
Love's Family Tree 1961
Akireta musumetachi 1949
Portrait of Madame Yuki San 1950
Snow Country 1957
Stray Dog 1973
Fantasy of Youth 1955
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director 1975
Adults Games 1971
And Yet They Go On 1931
The Secret Ceremony 1971
I Sell My Husband 1968
Snow-Flake 1950
Refresher Course for Wives 1961
Tokyo Omnibus 1959
Typhoon Over Nagasaki 1957
Eyes, the Sea and a Ball 1967
Nippon no obaachan Waka 1962
母子鶴 Onao 1952
A Ripple in a Morning 1952
Game of Chance Sugi 1966
Young Lovers 1957
A Woman's Testament 1960
Futari dake no hashi 1958
The Tiger of Malaya Tomi 1943
Tokyo Twilight Komatsu's Mistress 1957
Night Mist Makes Women Cry Yoshi Namikawa 1962
Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp 1963
Twenty-Four Eyes Otoko Sensei no Tsuma 1954
The Passionate Spinster Tokiko Tsurukawa 1965
The Rainbow Man Kane Nonomura 1949
Tsukinode no ketto Otani 1960
Tora-san's Pure Love 1976
The Water Magician Ogin 1933
Itohan Monogatari Okô 1957
Gateway to Glory 1969
Twice on a Certain Night 1956
A Woman's Life Nobuko's mother 1955
A Man Among Men Okimi 1955
Storm on the Silvery Peaks Old woman 1960
Destroyer Yukikaze 1964
Flower Cards Chivalry 1967
Yanagase Blues Kane Sasagawa 1967
Nocturnal Gate 1948
Fighting Letter for 29 People 1957
Inazuma Kaidō 1957
The Magistrate 1955
Seisaku no tsuma 1924
Teinen Taishoku 1963
Yaneura no Onna-tachi 1956
New Snow 1942
Passion to Soar 1941
Children Seeking a Mother 1956
Goodbye, Hello 1959
Diary of a Substitute Doctor 1959
Mother 1958
A Grain of Wheat 1958
Chained Bitch 1965
Series Cast Year
Kininaru Yomesan 1971
White Runway 1974
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