🎬Kumeko Urabe

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.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Hachiko (1987)	Tobacco Shop Owner		7
2	Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975)	Self		5
3	Being Two Isn't Easy (1962)	Ino		4
4	The Broken Commandment (1962)	Owner of the hotel		3
5	Floating Weeds (1959)	Shige	-	-
6	Stakeout (1958)	Proprietress of the Hotel Hizen-ya		6
7	Tokyo Twilight (1957)	Komatsu's Mistress		1
8	Street of Shame (1956)	Otane		8
9	She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)	Grandmother		5
10	Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)	Otoko Sensei no Tsuma	-	-
11	Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky (1954)	Shige, Ryoichi's stepmother	-	-
12	Brother and Sister (1953)	Riki - the Mother		5
13	The Wild Geese (1953)	Otsune		4
14	Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953)	Kayo Nojima		3
15	Ikiru (1952)	Tatsu Watanabe		8.9
16	The Life of a Horse Trader (1951)	Onobu	-	-
17	Repast (1951)	Taniguchi Shige	-	-
18	Women of the Night (1948)	Brothel Keeper		5
19	The Water Magician (1933)	Ogin		5