Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 05, 1902
Died
Oct 26, 1989
Place of Birth
Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Credits
218 titles
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, 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
Filmography
Hachiko
Tobacco Shop Owner
Checkers in Tan Tan tanuki
Lonely Heart
Fuki Inoue
The Cold-Hearted Sea
Lovely Days
Old lady
Before Spring
Toyo
Tora-san's Pure Love
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Self
White Runway
Stray Dog
Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
Tsue
Kininaru Yomesan
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
Kane Sasagawa
Flower Cards Chivalry
Game of Chance
Sugi
The Pretty Jade
Nocturnal Lights
Moment of Terror
Hisako Kanematsu
Women Doing Time
Four and A Half Mats
Riku
Secret Club 000
The Passionate Spinster
Tokiko Tsurukawa
An Innocent Witch
Chained Bitch
Dupe
Color
Night Scandal
Shino
Destroyer Yukikaze
Jakoman and Tetsu
Taka
Yearning
Bar Madam
We Are Salarymen
Shizuko Komuro (Eiichiro’s Mother)
18 Roughs
Gin Ishii
Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp
Uogashi no senpū musume
Teinen Taishoku
Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi