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Kumeko Urabe

Kumeko Urabe
  • Name: Kumeko Urabe
  • Birthday: 1902-10-05
  • Also known as: 浦邊粂子
  • Place of birth: Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
  • Popularity: 3.966
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... Read More

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Title Release date
Hachiko   as  Tabacco shop owner 1987-08-01
Miss Lonely   as  Fuki Inoue 1985-04-12
Before Spring   as  Toyo 1980-09-20
Tora-san's Pure Love 1976-12-25
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director 1975-05-24
Stray Dog 1973-09-29
Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori   as  Tsue 1972-12-09
The Secret Ceremony 1971-06-23
Adults Games 1971-01-27
喜劇 右向けェ左! 1970-12-31
The Bad Guy Blues 1969-08-27
Gateway to Glory 1969-07-12
Girl in College 1969-03-30
I Sell My Husband 1968-11-09
Two in the Shadow 1967-11-18
Eyes, the Sea and a Ball 1967-09-30
Yanagase Blues   as  Kane Sasagawa 1967-09-15
Flower Cards Chivalry 1967-03-10
Game of Chance   as  Sugi 1966-10-22
The Pretty Jade 1966-09-17
Nocturnal Lights 1966-06-19
Moment of Terror   as  Hisako Kanematsu 1966-04-16
Women Doing Time 1966-03-05
Four and A Half Mats   as  Riku 1966-02-17
Secret Club 000 1965-12-04
The Passionate Spinster   as  Tokiko Tsurukawa 1965-11-23
An Innocent Witch 1965-10-30
Dupe 1965-10-01
Night Scandal   as  Shino 1964-07-11
Destroyer Yukikaze 1964-02-16
Jakoman and Tetsu   as  Taka 1964-02-08
Yearning   as  Bar Madam 1964-01-15
18 Roughs   as  Gin Ishii 1963-09-11
Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp 1963-06-23
Teinen Taishoku 1963-03-01
Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi 1962-12-30
Nippon Irresponsible Guy 1962-12-23
Being Two Isn't Easy   as  Ino 1962-11-18
The Body 1962-11-08
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka 1962-09-01
Kyū-chan ondo 1962-07-01
Sarari man donto bushi - Kiraku na kagyô to kita monda 1962-05-12
The Broken Commandment   as  Owner of the hotel 1962-04-06
Eriko   as  Oshima 1962-03-25
Kono ni uruwashi 1962-03-18
湖愁 1962-03-11
Teppo Yasu no Shogai 1962-02-21
Haru no sanmyaku 1962-02-17
Night Mist Makes Women Cry   as  Yoshi Namikawa 1962-02-04
Nippon no obaachan   as  Waka 1962-01-03
Love's Family Tree 1961-11-22
Refresher Course for Wives 1961-08-13
Tsukinode no ketto   as  Otani 1960-11-16
The Woman Who Touched Legs 1960-08-24
Scarred Yosaburo 1960-07-10
The Song Lantern 1960-05-18
Storm on the Silvery Peaks   as  Old woman 1960-04-29
Victory and Defeat   as  Sato 1960-04-27
A Woman's Testament 1960-01-14
Floating Weeds   as  Shige 1959-11-17
Tokyo Omnibus 1959-10-30
When a Woman Loves   as  Otome 1959-09-24
Diary of a Substitute Doctor 1959-05-27
The Song of the Cart 1959-02-11
The Makioka Sisters 1959-01-14
Goodbye, Hello 1959-01-03
Confronting Fear 1958-07-20
The Precipice 1958-03-17
Futari dake no hashi 1958-03-05
Mother 1958-03-05
Stakeout   as  Proprietress of the Hotel Hizen-ya 1958-01-15
Inazuma Kaidō 1957-09-21
Elegy of the North   as  Grandma 1957-09-01
Fighting Letter for 29 People 1957-06-04
Tokyo Twilight   as  Komatsu's Mistress 1957-04-30
Snow Country 1957-04-30
続二等兵物語 決戦体制の巻 1957-03-26
Typhoon Over Nagasaki 1957-02-06
Itohan Monogatari   as  Okô 1957-01-15
Young Lovers 1957-01-03
Sound in the Mist 1956-11-21
Training Ship of Yearning 1956-10-10
Bridge of Japan 1956-10-01
俺は死なない 1956-08-21
Children Seeking a Mother 1956-08-08
Twice on a Certain Night 1956-06-08
Yaneura no Onna-tachi 1956-05-14
Street of Shame   as  Otane 1956-03-18
Early Spring   as  Shige Kitagawa 1956-01-29
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum   as  Grandmother 1955-11-29
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree   as  Tomi 1955-10-05
(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home   as  Masa 1955-06-21
Fantasy of Youth 1955-04-19
The Magistrate 1955-03-25
A Woman's Life   as  Nobuko's mother 1955-01-29
A Man Among Men   as  Okimi 1955-01-03
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky   as  Shige, Ryoichi's stepmother 1954-11-23
Twenty-Four Eyes   as  Otoko Sensei no Tsuma 1954-09-15
Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced 1954-07-13
The Story of Shunkin 1954-06-27
The Golden Demon   as  Tose 1954-03-21
A Certain Woman   as  Tome 1954-03-13
Koina no Ginpei 1954-01-15
The Wild Geese   as  Otsune 1953-09-15
Brother and Sister   as  Riki - the Mother 1953-08-19
Bot-chan   as  Kiyo 1953-06-15
An Heir's Place 1953-06-03
Where Chimneys Are Seen   as  Kayo Nojima 1953-03-05
Kanpai! Tokyo Musume 1952-12-17
Lightning   as  Osei 1952-10-09
Ikiru   as  Tatsu Watanabe 1952-10-09
母子鶴   as  Onao 1952-07-03
Shi no machi wo nogarete 1952-05-22
A Ripple in a Morning 1952-05-01
母山彦 1952-04-24
Wedding March   as  Auntie 1951-12-28
The Life of a Horse Trader   as  Onobu 1951-12-07
Repast   as  Taniguchi Shige 1951-11-23
Hibari no komoriuta 1951-09-21
Oogonju   as  Connie Sonobe's mother 1950-11-04
Portrait of Madame Yuki   as  San 1950-10-21
A Mother's Love 1950-06-27
Snow-Flake 1950-05-17
Duel in the Sun   as  Boarding house landlady 1950-03-07
Akireta musumetachi 1949-10-11
Ginza Cancan Girls 1949-08-16
The Rainbow Man   as  Kane Nonomura 1949-07-18
Nocturnal Gate 1948-10-02
Women of the Night   as  Brothel Keeper 1948-05-26
Women of the Night   as  Brothel-keeper 1948-05-26
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu 1947-03-04
A face glowing at night 1946-06-13
Aru yo no seppun   as  Takako 1946-05-23
Who Is the Criminal? 1945-12-27
Saigo no kikyō 1945-07-26
The Man From Chungking   as  妻とよ 1943-11-11
The Tiger of Malaya   as  Tomi 1943-06-24
New Snow 1942-10-01
Passion to Soar 1941-11-30
Ah, My Hometown 1938-10-06
The Straits of Love and Hate   as  Ume 1937-06-17
Tsuki yori no shisha 1934-03-29
The Feast of Gion 1933-08-31
The Water Magician   as  Ogin 1933-06-01
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen 1931-10-30
The 26 Martyrs of Japan   as  Ohisa, Mother of Antonio 1931-10-01
And Yet They Go On 1931-06-12
Mistress of a Foreigner   as  Omatsu 1930-07-01
Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue   as  Otoku 1927-12-30
Osumi and Her Mother 1924-06-29
Moken no himitsu 1924-03-14
Seisaku no tsuma 1924-01-02