Kumeko Urabe
October 5, 1902 · 123 years old
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 g…
Known For
9 titles
Floating Weeds
The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.
Hachi-ko
The true story about a dog's loyalty to its master, even after his death.
Early Spring
A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.
Twenty-Four Eyes
Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.
Yearning
After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies and thinks back to when he was fifteen. He recalls his time with, and away from, the girl cousin he grew up with and would have married, except the family and other pr...
The Outcast
A young man struggles to come to terms with his true identity in a remote caste-based village in early 20th century Japan.
Bridge of Japan
For his 1st color film, Ichikawa did an Edo era story of two geishas scheming against each other for control of the Nihonbashi bridge area, and vying for the affections of a young doctor.
