Kumeko Urabe
1902-10-05 ( 122 years old ) in Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

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.

Movies

Hachiko 1987-08-01
Miss Lonely 1985-04-12
Before Spring 1980-09-20
Stray Dog 1973-09-29
Adults Games 1971-01-27
Yanagase Blues 1967-09-15
Game of Chance 1966-10-22
Chained Bitch 1965-10-15
Dupe 1965-10-01
Color 1965-06-13
Night Scandal 1964-07-11
Yearning 1964-01-15
18 Roughs 1963-09-11
The Body 1962-11-08
Kyū-chan ondo 1962-07-01
Eriko 1962-03-25
湖愁 1962-03-11
White Cliffs 1960-04-05
Floating Weeds 1959-11-17
Tokyo Omnibus 1959-10-30
Goodbye, Hello 1959-01-03
The Precipice 1958-03-17
Mother 1958-03-05
Stakeout 1958-01-15
Tokyo Eyes 1958-01-03
Inazuma Kaidō 1957-09-21
Snow Country 1957-04-30
Tokyo Twilight 1957-04-30
Young Lovers 1957-01-03
刑事部屋 1956-04-04
Early Spring 1956-01-29
The Refugee 1955-05-03
The Magistrate 1955-03-25
A Woman's Life 1955-01-29
The Wild Geese 1953-09-15
Bot-chan 1953-06-15
Ikiru 1952-10-09
Lightning 1952-10-09
母子鶴 1952-07-03
母山彦 1952-04-24
Wedding March 1951-12-28
Repast 1951-11-23
Oogonju 1950-11-04
Snow-Flake 1950-05-17
Nocturnal Gate 1948-10-02
New Snow 1942-10-01