Kumeko Urabe
Age: N/A | From: Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: 浦邊粂子
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 57
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Hachiko
(1987) Tabacco shop owner
Ikiru
(1952) Tatsu Watanabe
Street of Shame
(1956) Otane
Early Spring
(1956) Shige Kitagawa
Tokyo Twilight
(1957) Komatsu's Mistress
Floating Weeds
(1959) Shige
Yearning
(1964) Bar Madam
Twenty-Four Eyes
(1954) Otoko Sensei no TsumaActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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| 1987 | Tabacco shop owner | |
| 1985 | Fuki Inoue | |
| 1980 | Toyo | |
| 1976 | N/A | |
| 1975 | N/A | |
| 1973 | N/A | |
| 1972 | Tsue | |
| 1971 | N/A | |
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| 1970 | N/A | |
| 1969 | N/A | |
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| 1968 | N/A | |
| 1967 | N/A | |
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| Kane Sasagawa | ||
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| 1966 | Sugi | |
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| Hisako Kanematsu | ||
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| Riku | ||
| 1965 | N/A | |
| Tokiko Tsurukawa | ||
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| 1964 | Shino | |
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| Taka | ||
| Bar Madam | ||
| 1963 | Gin Ishii | |
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| 1962 | N/A | |
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| Ino | ||
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| Owner of the hotel | ||
| Oshima | ||
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| Yoshi Namikawa | ||
| Waka | ||
| 1961 | N/A | |
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| 1960 | Otani | |
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| Old woman | ||
| Sato | ||
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| 1959 | Shige | |
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| Otome | ||
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| 1958 | N/A | |
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| Proprietress of the Hotel Hizen-ya | ||
| 1957 | N/A | |
| Grandma | ||
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| Komatsu's Mistress | ||
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| Okô | ||
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| 1956 | N/A | |
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| Otane | ||
| Shige Kitagawa | ||
| 1955 | Grandmother | |
| Tomi | ||
| Masa | ||
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| Nobuko's mother | ||
| Okimi | ||
| 1954 | Shige, Ryoichi's stepmother | |
| Otoko Sensei no Tsuma | ||
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| Tose | ||
| Tome | ||
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| 1953 | Otsune | |
| Riki - the Mother | ||
| Kiyo | ||
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| Kayo Nojima | ||
| 1952 | N/A | |
| Tatsu Watanabe | ||
| Osei | ||
| Onao | ||
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| 1951 | Auntie | |
| Onobu | ||
| Taniguchi Shige | ||
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| 1950 | Connie Sonobe's mother | |
| San | ||
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| Boarding house landlady | ||
| 1949 | N/A | |
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| Kane Nonomura | ||
| 1948 | N/A | |
| Brothel Keeper | ||
| Brothel-keeper | ||
| 1947 | N/A | |
| 1946 | N/A | |
| Takako | ||
| 1945 | N/A | |
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| 1943 | 妻とよ | |
| Tomi | ||
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| 1941 | N/A | |
| 1938 | N/A | |
| 1937 | Ume | |
| 1934 | N/A | |
| 1933 | N/A | |
| Ogin | ||
| 1931 | N/A | |
| Ohisa, Mother of Antonio | ||
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| 1930 | Omatsu | |
| 1927 | Otoku | |
| 1924 | N/A | |
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