Kumeko Urabe
Kumeko Urabe, born Kimura Kume , 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 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.
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Hachiko
actor
1987
Lonely Heart
actor
1985
Before Spring
actor
1980
Tora-san's Pure Love
actor
1976
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
actor
1975
Stray Dog
actor
1973
The Secret Ceremony
actor
1971
Adults Games
actor
1971
The Bad Guy Blues
actor
1969
I Sell My Husband
actor
1968
Two in the Shadow
actor
1967
Eyes, the Sea and a Ball
actor
1967
Yanagase Blues
actor
1967
Flower Cards Chivalry
actor
1967
Game of Chance
actor
1966
Moment of Terror
actor
1966
The Passionate Spinster
actor
1965
An Innocent Witch
actor
1965
Jakoman and Tetsu
actor
1964
Yearning
actor
1964
18 Roughs
actor
1963
Uogashi no senpū musume
actor
1963
Teinen Taishoku
actor
1963
Being Two Isn't Easy
actor
1962
The Body
actor
1962
The Broken Commandment
actor
1962
Eriko
actor
1962
Koshū
actor
1962
Night Mist Makes Women Cry
actor
1962
Nippon no obaachan
actor
1962
Refresher Course for Wives
actor
1961
Tsukinode no ketto
actor
1960
The Song Lantern
actor
1960
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
actor
1960
White Cliffs
actor
1960
A Woman's Testament
actor
1960
Floating Weeds
actor
1959
Hear My Mother's Cry
actor
1959
Blind Love
actor
1959
The Makioka Sisters
actor
1959
Goodbye, Hello
actor
1959
The Precipice
actor
1958
A Bridge for Two Alone
actor
1958
Hibi no haishin
actor
1958
Stakeout
actor
1958
Inazuma Kaidō
actor
1957
Monkey Business
actor
1957
Elegy of the North
actor
1957
Fighting Letter for 29 People
actor
1957
Snow Country
actor
1957
Tokyo Twilight
actor
1957
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
actor
1957
Itohan Monogatari
actor
1957
Sound in the Mist
actor
1956
Here It is Quiet
actor
1956
Bridge of Japan
actor
1956
Children Seeking a Mother
actor
1956
Twice on a Certain Night
actor
1956
Street of Shame
actor
1956
Early Spring
actor
1956
You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
actor
1955
Youth
actor
1955
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
actor
1955
The Refugee
actor
1955
Fantasy of Youth
actor
1955
The Magistrate
actor
1955
A Woman's Life
actor
1955
A Man Among Men
actor
1955
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
actor
1954
Twenty-Four Eyes
actor
1954
Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
actor
1954
The Story of Shunkin
actor
1954
東京シンデレラ娘
actor
1954
The Wild Geese
actor
1953
Brother and Sister
actor
1953
Bot-chan
actor
1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen
actor
1953
Ikiru
actor
1952
Lightning
actor
1952
A Ripple in a Morning
actor
1952
Wedding March
actor
1951
The Life of a Horse Trader
actor
1951
Repast
actor
1951
Golden Beast
actor
1950
Portrait of Madame Yuki
actor
1950
A Mother's Love
actor
1950
Snow-Flake
actor
1950
Duel in the Sun
actor
1950
Akireta musumetachi
actor
1949
Ginza Cancan Girls
actor
1949
Hills of a Foreign Country
actor
1949
Women of the Night
actor
1948
The 99th Bride
actor
1947
New Snow
actor
1942
The Straits of Love and Hate
actor
1937
The Water Magician
actor
1933
The 26 Martyrs of Japan
actor
1931
And Yet They Go On
actor
1931
Mistress of a Foreigner
actor
1930
Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue
actor
1927