Cast

Kumeko Urabe

Acting

Cast

Kumeko Urabe

Known for

Acting

Born

1902-10-05

From

Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Died

1989-10-26

Also known as 浦邊粂子

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.

Kumeko Urabe

Kumeko Urabe

Biography

Ikiru

The Woman Who Touched Legs

Jakoman and Tetsu

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

An Innocent Witch

Girl in College

When a Woman Loves

Nocturnal Lights

Checkers in Tan Tan tanuki

The Monk Who Became a Raccoon Dog

Scarred Yosaburo

An Heir's Place

Convent Bride

Nocturnal Gate

Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp

Tsuki yori no shisha

母子鶴

Secret Club 000

Dupe

Young Lovers

Kimi ka to omohite

Color

First Love Story

Machi no ninkisha

母山彦

Ah, My Hometown

Kare to kanojo wa iku

Osumi and Her Mother

Iku-san ga

Floating Weeds

The Little Green Box

Kakute ninjutsu eiga wa owarinu

Tokyo Twilight

Youth

Twenty-Four Eyes

瓢箪から出た駒

The Legendary Hell

The Rainbow Man

The Golden Demon

Monkey Business

The 99th Bride

Seishun no oto

Hills of a Foreign Country

Genghis Khan

Yearning

東京シンデレラ娘

Oka wa hanazakari

Female Prisoner #36

Koga Manshion

Twenty-One Concubines: The Life of a Pervert

Two in the Shadow

Training Ship of Yearning

Here It is Quiet

Destroyer Yukikaze

Early Spring

Moken no himitsu

Hachiko

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

Yurakucho 0 Street

Portrait of Madame Yuki

Hiren tsubaki

Women of the Night

Blind Love

Stakeout

Night Scandal

Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen

Lightning

Hear My Mother's Cry

The Wild Geese

Where Chimneys Are Seen

Lovely Days

The Broken Commandment

Repast

Brother and Sister

Lonely Heart

Snow Country

Typhoon Over Nagasaki

続二等兵物語　決戦体制の巻