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.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	4.179
Birthday	1902-10-05
Place of Birth	Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Also Known As	浦辺粂子, 浦邊粂子,

Early Spring

Hachiko

Street of Shame

Floating Weeds

Women of the Night

The Broken Commandment

Yearning

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

The Wild Geese

Ah, My Hometown

Being Two Isn't Easy

Before Spring

The Straits of Love and Hate

Love's Family Tree

18 Roughs

Mistress of a Foreigner

Osumi and Her Mother

The Woman Who Touched Legs

Ikiru

Repast

Lightning

Brother and Sister

Ginza Cancan Girls

Where Chimneys Are Seen

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

The Makioka Sisters

A Mother's Love

Women of the Night

Bot-chan

The Song of the Cart

続二等兵物語 決戦体制の巻

Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced

Miss Lonely

Stakeout

Moment of Terror

An Innocent Witch

Eriko

The Golden Demon

The Life of a Horse Trader

Elegy of the North

The Bad Guy Blues

Two in the Shadow

The Feast of Gion

Akireta musumetachi

Jakoman and Tetsu

Portrait of Madame Yuki

Snow Country

Stray Dog

Fantasy of Youth

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

Adults Games

And Yet They Go On

The Secret Ceremony

I Sell My Husband

Snow-Flake

Refresher Course for Wives

Tokyo Omnibus

Typhoon Over Nagasaki

Eyes, the Sea and a Ball

Nippon no obaachan

母子鶴

Game of Chance

A Ripple in a Morning

Young Lovers

A Woman's Testament

Futari dake no hashi

The Tiger of Malaya

Tokyo Twilight

Night Mist Makes Women Cry

Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp

Twenty-Four Eyes

The Passionate Spinster

The Rainbow Man

Tsukinode no ketto

Tora-san's Pure Love

The Water Magician

Itohan Monogatari

Gateway to Glory

Twice on a Certain Night

A Woman's Life

続二等兵物語　決戦体制の巻

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