Kumeko Urabe

Personal Info

Birthday

October 5, 1902

Day of Death

1989-10-26

(87 years old)

Place of Birth

Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As

浦邊粂子

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.

Known For

Ikiru

Floating Weeds

Early Spring

Street of Shame

Wedding March

Hachiko

The Rainbow Man

Tokyo Twilight

Filmography

1987
Hachiko
as Tabacco Shop Owner
1985
Miss Lonely
as Fuki Inoue
1980
Before Spring
as Toyo
1972
Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
as Tsue
1967
Yanagase Blues
as Kane Sasagawa
1966
Game of Chance
as Sugi
Moment of Terror
as Hisako Kanematsu
Four and A Half Mats
as Riku
1965
The Passionate Spinster
as Tokiko Tsurukawa
1964
Night Scandal
as Shino
Jakoman and Tetsu
as Taka
Yearning
as Bar Madam
1963
18 Roughs
as Gin Ishii
1962
Being Two Isn't Easy
as Ino
The Broken Commandment
as Owner of the hotel
Eriko
as Oshima
Night Mist Makes Women Cry
as Yoshi Namikawa
Nippon no obaachan
as Waka
1960
Tsukinode no ketto
as Otani
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
as Old woman
Victory and Defeat
as Sato
When a Woman Loves
as Otome
1959
Floating Weeds
as Shige
1958
Stakeout
as Proprietress of the Hotel Hizen-ya
1957
Elegy of the North
as Grandma
Tokyo Twilight
as Komatsu's Mistress
Itohan Monogatari
as Okô
1956
Street of Shame
as Otane
Early Spring
as Shige Kitagawa
1955
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
as Grandmother
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
as Tomi
(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
as Masa
A Woman's Life
as Nobuko's mother
A Man Among Men
as Okimi
1954
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
as Shige, Ryoichi's stepmother
Twenty-Four Eyes
as Otoko Sensei no Tsuma
The Golden Demon
as Tose
A Certain Woman
as Tome
1953
The Wild Geese
as Otsune
Brother and Sister
as Riki - the Mother
Bot-chan
as Kiyo
Where Chimneys Are Seen
as Kayo Nojima
1952
Ikiru
as Tatsu Watanabe
Lightning
as Osei
母子鶴
as Onao
1951
Wedding March
as Auntie
The Life of a Horse Trader
as Onobu
Repast
as Taniguchi Shige
1950
Oogonju
as Connie Sonobe's mother
Portrait of Madame Yuki
as San
Duel in the Sun
as Boarding house landlady
1949
The Rainbow Man
as Kane Nonomura
1948
Women of the Night
as Brothel Keeper
1946
Aru yo no seppun
as Takako
1943
The Man From Chungking
as 妻とよ

The Tiger of Malaya
as Tomi
1937
The Straits of Love and Hate
as Ume
1933
The Water Magician
as Ogin
1931
The 26 Martyrs of Japan
as Ohisa, Mother of Antonio
1930
Mistress of a Foreigner
as Omatsu
1927
Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue
as Otoku