
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…

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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..