Kumeko Urabe

Kumeko Urabe

October 5, 1902 · 124 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

13 titles
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Floating Weeds

Floating Weeds

1959 · 1h 59m · Movie

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.

7.9
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Hachi-ko

Hachi-ko

1987 · 1h 47m · Movie

The true story about a dog's loyalty to its master, even after his death.

7.9
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Early Spring

Early Spring

1956 · 2h 25m · Movie

A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.

7.7
4
Twenty-Four Eyes

Twenty-Four Eyes

1954 · 2h 36m · Movie

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.

8.0
5
Yearning

Yearning

1964 · 1h 38m · Movie

After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.

8.0
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Women of the Night

Women of the Night

1948 · 1h 15m · Movie

A mistress of a drug dealer in post-war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an affair with her sister.

7.2
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Scattered Clouds

Scattered Clouds

1967 · 1h 48m · Movie

A man falls in love with the widow of a man he killed in a car accident. Eventually she falls in love with him in return.

7.8
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Lightning

Lightning

1952 · 1h 27m · Movie

Poor, pathetic mother Ose has four children, three daughters and a son, by four different men.

7.5
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She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

1955 · 1h 40m · Movie

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...

7.5
10
The Outcast

The Outcast

1962 · 1h 59m · Movie

A young man struggles to come to terms with his true identity in a remote caste-based village in early 20th century Japan.

6.9
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Bridge of Japan

Bridge of Japan

1956 · 1h 52m · Movie

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.

7.5
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Sound of the Tides

Sound of the Tides

1980 · 2h 7m · Movie

Iyo is a teenage girl from a Bourgeois family living nearby the Sea of Japan. Someday, her father finds an unconscious woman on the beach and decides to bring her back to home. When..

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