Actor
Kumeko Urabe
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, ...

Known For
Acting
1987 -- Hachiko | Tabacco shop owner
1985 -- Miss Lonely | Fuki Inoue
1984 -- The Cold-Hearted Sea |
1980 -- Before Spring | Toyo
1976 -- Tora-san's Pure Love |
1975 -- Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director |
1973 -- Stray Dog |
1972 -- Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori | Tsue
1971 -- The Secret Ceremony |
1971 -- Adults Games |
1970 -- 喜劇 右向けェ左! |
1970 -- The Final Gamble |
1969 -- The Bad Guy Blues |
1969 -- Gateway to Glory |
1969 -- Girl in College |
1968 -- I Sell My Husband |
1967 -- Two in the Shadow |
1967 -- Eyes, the Sea and a Ball |
1967 -- Yanagase Blues | Kane Sasagawa
1967 -- Flower Cards Chivalry |
1966 -- Game of Chance | Sugi
1966 -- The Pretty Jade |
1966 -- Nocturnal Lights |
1966 -- Moment of Terror | Hisako Kanematsu
1966 -- Women Doing Time |
1966 -- Four and A Half Mats | Riku
1965 -- Secret Club 000 |
1965 -- The Passionate Spinster | Tokiko Tsurukawa
1965 -- An Innocent Witch |
1965 -- Chained Bitch |
1965 -- Dupe |
1965 -- Color |
1964 -- Night Scandal | Shino
1964 -- Destroyer Yukikaze |
1964 -- Jakoman and Tetsu | Taka
1964 -- Yearning | Bar Madam
1963 -- 18 Roughs | Gin Ishii
1963 -- Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp |
1963 -- Teinen Taishoku |
1962 -- Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi |
1962 -- Nippon Irresponsible Guy |
1962 -- Being Two Isn't Easy | Ino
1962 -- The Body |
1962 -- Gakusei geisha koi to kenka |
1962 -- Kyū-chan ondo |
1962 -- Sarari man donto bushi - Kiraku na kagyô to kita monda |
1962 -- The Broken Commandment | Owner of the hotel
1962 -- Eriko | Oshima
1962 -- Kono ni uruwashi |
1962 -- 湖愁 |
1962 -- Teppo Yasu no Shogai |
1962 -- Haru no sanmyaku |
1962 -- Night Mist Makes Women Cry | Yoshi Namikawa
1962 -- Nippon no obaachan | Waka
1961 -- Love's Family Tree |
1961 -- Refresher Course for Wives |
1960 -- Tsukinode no ketto | Otani
1960 -- The Woman Who Touched Legs |
1960 -- Scarred Yosaburo |
1960 -- The Song Lantern |
1960 -- Storm on the Silvery Peaks | Old woman
1960 -- Victory and Defeat | Sato
1960 -- White Cliffs |
1960 -- A Woman's Testament |
1959 -- Floating Weeds | Shige
1959 -- Tokyo Omnibus |
1959 -- When a Woman Loves | Otome
1959 -- Diary of a Substitute Doctor |
1959 -- The Song of the Cart |
1959 -- The Makioka Sisters |
1959 -- Goodbye, Hello |
1958 -- A Grain of Wheat |
1958 -- Confronting Fear |
1958 -- The Precipice |
1958 -- Mother |
1958 -- Futari dake no hashi |
1958 -- Stakeout | Proprietress of the Hotel Hizen-ya
1957 -- Inazuma Kaidō |
1957 -- Elegy of the North | Grandma
1957 -- Fighting Letter for 29 People |
1957 -- Tokyo Twilight | Komatsu's Mistress
1957 -- Snow Country |
1957 -- 続二等兵物語 決戦体制の巻 |
1957 -- Typhoon Over Nagasaki |
1957 -- Itohan Monogatari | Okô
1957 -- Young Lovers |
1956 -- Sound in the Mist |
1956 -- Training Ship of Yearning |
1956 -- Bridge of Japan |
1956 -- 俺は死なない |
1956 -- Children Seeking a Mother |
1956 -- Twice on a Certain Night |
1956 -- Yaneura no Onna-tachi |
1956 -- Street of Shame | Otane
1956 -- Early Spring | Shige Kitagawa
1955 -- She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum | Grandmother
1955 -- Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree | Tomi
1955 -- (Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home | Masa
1955 -- Fantasy of Youth |
1955 -- The Magistrate |
1955 -- A Woman's Life | Nobuko's mother
1955 -- A Man Among Men | Okimi
1954 -- Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky | Shige, Ryoichi's stepmother
1954 -- Twenty-Four Eyes | Otoko Sensei no Tsuma
1954 -- Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced |
1954 -- The Story of Shunkin |
1954 -- The Golden Demon | Tose
1954 -- A Certain Woman | Tome
1954 -- Koina no Ginpei |
1953 -- The Wild Geese | Otsune
1953 -- Brother and Sister | Riki - the Mother
1953 -- Bot-chan | Kiyo
1953 -- An Heir's Place |
1953 -- Where Chimneys Are Seen | Kayo Nojima
1952 -- Kanpai! Tokyo Musume |
1952 -- Lightning | Osei
1952 -- Ikiru | Tatsu Watanabe
1952 -- 母子鶴 | Onao
1952 -- Shi no machi wo nogarete |
1952 -- A Ripple in a Morning |
1952 -- 母山彦 |
1951 -- Wedding March | Auntie
1951 -- The Life of a Horse Trader | Onobu
1951 -- Repast | Taniguchi Shige
1951 -- Hibari no komoriuta |
1950 -- Oogonju | Connie Sonobe's mother
1950 -- Portrait of Madame Yuki | San
1950 -- A Mother's Love |
1950 -- Snow-Flake |
1950 -- Duel in the Sun | Boarding house landlady
1949 -- Akireta musumetachi |
1949 -- Ginza Cancan Girls |
1949 -- The Rainbow Man | Kane Nonomura
1948 -- Nocturnal Gate |
1948 -- Women of the Night | Brothel-keeper
1948 -- Women of the Night | Brothel Keeper
1947 -- Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu |
1946 -- A face glowing at night |
1946 -- Aru yo no seppun | Takako
1945 -- Who Is the Criminal? |
1945 -- Saigo no kikyō |
1943 -- The Man From Chungking | 妻とよ
1943 -- The Tiger of Malaya | Tomi
1942 -- New Snow |
1941 -- Passion to Soar |
1938 -- Ah, My Hometown |
1937 -- The Straits of Love and Hate | Ume
1934 -- Tsuki yori no shisha |
1933 -- The Feast of Gion |
1933 -- The Water Magician | Ogin
1931 -- Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen |
1931 -- The 26 Martyrs of Japan | Ohisa, Mother of Antonio
1931 -- And Yet They Go On |
1930 -- Mistress of a Foreigner | Omatsu
1927 -- Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue | Otoku
1924 -- Osumi and Her Mother |
1924 -- Moken no himitsu |
1924 -- Seisaku no tsuma |
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