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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 5, 1902
Died
October 26, 1989
Place of Birth
Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Also Known As
- 浦邊粂子
Kumeko Urabe
1.0 Popularity
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
Credits
Hachiko
as Tabacco Shop Owner
1987
7.8
Miss Lonely
as Fuki Inoue
1985
7.0
The Cold-Hearted Sea
1984
0.0
Before Spring
as Toyo
1980
5.2
Tora-san's Pure Love
1976
8.5
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
as Self
1975
7.1
White Runway
1974
0.0
Stray Dog
1973
7.0
Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
as Tsue
1972
0.0
Kininaru Yomesan
1971
0.0
The Secret Ceremony
1971
0.0
Adults Games
1971
0.0
喜劇 右向けェ左！
1970
0.0
The Final Gamble
1970
0.0
The Bad Guy Blues
1969
0.0
Gateway to Glory
1969
7.5
Girl in College
1969
0.0
Koi no otome kawa
1969
0.0
I Sell My Husband
1968
0.0
Two in the Shadow
1967
7.6
Eyes, the Sea and a Ball
1967
5.0
Yanagase Blues
as Kane Sasagawa
1967
0.0
Flower Cards Chivalry
1967
10.0
Game of Chance
as Sugi
1966
6.0
The Pretty Jade
1966
0.0
Nocturnal Lights
1966
0.0
Moment of Terror
as Hisako Kanematsu
1966
5.8
Women Doing Time
1966
0.0
Four and A Half Mats
as Riku
1966
0.0
Secret Club 000
1965
0.0
The Passionate Spinster
as Tokiko Tsurukawa
1965
0.0
An Innocent Witch
1965
7.1
Chained Bitch
1965
0.0
Dupe
1965
0.0
Color
1965
0.0
Night Scandal
as Shino
1964
0.0
Destroyer Yukikaze
1964
0.0
Jakoman and Tetsu
as Taka
1964
6.0
Yearning
as Bar Madam
1964
8.1
We Are Salarymen
as Shizuko Komuro (Eiichiro’s Mother)
1963
0.0
18 Roughs
as Gin Ishii
1963
6.6
Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp
1963
8.0
Uogashi no senpū musume
1963
0.0
Teinen Taishoku
1963
0.0
Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
1962
0.0
Irresponsible Rascal of Japan
1962
8.0
Being Two Isn't Easy
as Ino
1962
6.8
The Body
1962
6.5
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
1962
0.0
Kyū-chan ondo
1962
0.0
Sarari man donto bushi - Kiraku na kagyô to kita monda
1962
0.0
The Broken Commandment
as Owner of the hotel
1962
6.6
🎬
Eriko
as Oshima
1962
0.0
Kono ni uruwashi
1962
0.0
湖愁
1962
0.0
Teppo Yasu no Shogai
1962
0.0
Haru no sanmyaku
1962
0.0
🎬
Night Mist Makes Women Cry
as Yoshi Namikawa
1962
0.0
Nippon no obaachan
as Waka
1962
0.0
Love's Family Tree
1961
0.0
🎬
Refresher Course for Wives
1961
0.0
Love and the Shop Curtain
1961
0.0
Tsukinode no ketto
as Otani
1960
0.0
The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
6.0
Scarred Yosaburo
1960
0.0
Irohanihoheto
1960
0.0
The Song Lantern
1960
0.0
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
as Old woman
1960
0.0
Victory and Defeat
as Sato
1960
0.0
White Cliffs
1960
0.0
A Woman's Testament
1960
5.8
When a Woman Loves
as Otome
1960
0.0
Floating Weeds
as Shige
1959
7.5
Tokyo Omnibus
1959
0.0
Diary of a Substitute Doctor
1959
0.0
The Song of the Cart
1959
6.6
The Makioka Sisters
1959
8.0
Goodbye, Hello
as Restaurant owner
1959
6.0
Yurakucho 0 Street
as Mother of A 16号
1958
0.0
A Grain of Wheat
1958
0.0
Flower's Yearning
as Muraki Sawa
1958
0.0
Confronting Fear
1958
0.0
The Cat Knew
1958
0.0
The Precipice
1958
0.0
Mother
1958
0.0
A Bridge for Two Alone
1958
0.0
Hibi no haishin
1958
0.0
Stakeout
as Proprietress of the Hotel Hizen-ya
1958
6.9
Tokyo Eyes
1958
0.0
Inazuma Kaidō
1957
0.0
Elegy of the North
as Grandma
1957
6.0
Fighting Letter for 29 People
1957
0.0
Snow Country
1957
6.7
Tokyo Twilight
as Komatsu's Mistress
1957
7.7
🎬
続二等兵物語 決戦体制の巻
1957
0.0
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
1957
6.2
Itohan Monogatari
as Okô
1957
0.0
Young Lovers
1957
0.0
Sound in the Mist
1956
0.0
Training Ship of Yearning
1956
0.0
Bridge of Japan
1956
7.3
俺は死なない
1956
0.0
Children Seeking a Mother
1956
0.0
Twice on a Certain Night
1956
0.0
Yaneura no Onna-tachi
1956
0.0
刑事部屋
1956
0.0
Street of Shame
as Otane
1956
7.7
Dadakko Shachou
1956
0.0
Early Spring
as Shige Kitagawa
1956
7.5
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
as Grandmother
1955
6.9
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
as Tomi
1955
0.0
(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
as Masa
1955
0.0
The Refugee
1955
0.0
Fantasy of Youth
1955
0.0
The Magistrate
1955
0.0
A Woman's Life
as Nobuko's mother
1955
0.0
A Man Among Men
as Okimi
1955
0.0
Victory or Defeat
1954
0.0
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
as Shige, Ryoichi's stepmother
1954
6.0
Twenty-Four Eyes
as Otoko Sensei no Tsuma
1954
7.7
Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
1954
0.0
The Story of Shunkin
1954
5.0
東京シンデレラ娘
1954
0.0
The Golden Demon
as Tose
1954
0.0
A Certain Woman
as Tome
1954
0.0
Koina no Ginpei
1954
0.0
The Wild Geese
as Otsune
1953
6.5
Brother and Sister
as Riki - the Mother
1953
6.2
Bot-chan
as Kiyo
1953
10.0
An Heir's Place
1953
0.0
Where Chimneys Are Seen
as Kayo Nojima
1953
6.4
Kanpai! Tokyo Musume
1952
0.0
Ikiru
as Tatsu Watanabe
1952
8.3
Lightning
as Osei
1952
7.1
母子鶴
as Onao
1952
0.0
Shi no machi wo nogarete
1952
0.0
A Ripple in a Morning
1952
6.0
母山彦
1952
0.0
Wedding March
as Auntie
1951
0.0
The Life of a Horse Trader
as Onobu
1951
6.8
Repast
as Taniguchi Shige
1951
7.5
Hibari no komoriuta
1951
6.0
🎬
Oogonju
as Connie Sonobe's mother
1950
0.0
Portrait of Madame Yuki
as San
1950
6.7
🎬
A Mother's Love
1950
0.0
Snow-Flake
1950
8.0
Duel in the Sun
as Boarding house landlady
1950
0.0
Akireta musumetachi
1949
0.0
Ginza Cancan Girls
1949
0.0
The Rainbow Man
as Kane Nonomura
1949
6.7
🎬
Nocturnal Gate
1948
0.0
Women of the Night
as Brothel Keeper
1948
7.1
Women of the Night
as Brothel-keeper
1948
7.1
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
1947
0.0
A Face Glowing at Night
1946
0.0
Aru yo no seppun
as Takako
1946
0.0
Who Is the Criminal?
1945
0.0
Saigo no kikyō
1945
0.0
The Man From Chungking
as 妻とよ
1943
0.0
The Tiger of Malaya
as Tomi
1943
0.0
New Snow
1942
0.0
🎬
Passion to Soar
1941
0.0
🎬
Ie naki musume
1939
0.0
🎬
Ah, My Hometown
1938
0.0
The Straits of Love and Hate
as Ume
1937
7.2
Tsuki yori no shisha
1934
0.0
The Feast of Gion
1933
5.0
The Water Magician
as Ogin
1933
7.2
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
1931
0.0
The 26 Martyrs of Japan
as Ohisa, Mother of Antonio
1931
0.0
And Yet They Go On
1931
0.0
🎬
Mistress of a Foreigner
as Omatsu
1930
6.2
Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue
as Otoku
1927
6.0
🎬
日輪 前篇
1926
0.0
🎬
Osumi and Her Mother
1924
6.5
🎬
Moken no himitsu
1924
0.0
🎬
Seisaku no tsuma
1924
0.0