Kumeko Urabe — Actor (36)
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Nippon no obaachan (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
喜劇 にっぽんのお婆あちゃん
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Chōchō Miyako / Tanie Kitabayashi …
other title: 喜劇 にっぽんのお婆あちゃん
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.
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Elegy of the North (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
挽歌
director: Heinosuke Gosho actor: Yoshiko Kuga / Masayuki Mori …
other title: Élégie du Nord / 挽歌
​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes dangerously obsessed with his unfaithful wife, Akiko.
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The Passionate Spinster (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
結婚相談
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Izumi Ashikawa / Kumeko Urabe …
other title: 結婚相談
She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that wasn't hers. She knew the procedure: watch the bride and groom get congratulated, smile to cover up the loneliness. But she didn't want to feel like this forever. In that moment, Shimako decided that the next wedding she'd attend had to be her own.
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Goodbye, Hello (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
あなたと私の合言葉 さようなら、今日は
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Ayako Wakao / Shin Saburi …
other title: あなたと私の合言葉 さようなら、今日は
Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obligations in life and are not ready for marriage. Their families think differently and strive to arrange their personal happiness.
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The Precipice (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
氷壁
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Kenji Sugawara / Fujiko Yamamoto …
other title: 氷壁
Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.
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The Woman Who Touched Legs (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
足にさわった女
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Machiko Kyō / Hajime Hana …
other title: 足にさわった女
Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story about her parents who killed himself and died for overwork to feel sorry about her.
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Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori (1972) [Movie] TMDB
女生きてます 盛り場渡り鳥
director: Azuma Morisaki actor: Hisaya Morishige / Akane Kawasaki …
other title: 女生きてます 盛り場渡り鳥
Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habits such as stealing. Despite these flaws, she garners popularity in the slums due to her compassionate care for children. In an attempt to secure a stable future for their child, she enters into marriage with Tsutomu Yamazaki, who struggles with a stutter. Unfortunately, their union is cut short by the untimely death of Tsutomu Yamazaki in an accident.
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Game of Chance (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
浪曲子守唄
director: Ryuichi Takamori actor: Sonny Chiba / Hiroyuki Sanada …
other title: 浪曲子守唄 / Game Of Chance
Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, drifting from city to city. However, not completely losing his gambling tastes, he became a hunted man and must escape to Tokyo after he was found cheating at dice. Bungo and his son Kenichi comes upon the Kizaki Family in Asakusa, where more troubles are awaiting them...
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Moment of Terror (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
ひき逃げ
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Yōko Tsukasa …
other title: Délit de fuite / Delito de fuga …
When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the victim's mother changes her identity and infiltrates the couple's home to work as their maid, plotting to murder their similarly-aged son.
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Snow Country (1957) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
雪国
director: Shirō Toyoda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Keiko Kishi …
other title: Pays de la neige / 雪国 …
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?
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The Makioka Sisters (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
細雪
director: Shima Kōji actor: Yukiko Todoroki / Machiko Kyō …
other title: 細雪
Based on the famous novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this is a story of the four sisters of the ancient and reputable Makioka family of Osaka.