Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 10, 1928
Died
Aug 04, 1996
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Credits
123 titles
Kiyoshi Atsumi
Biography
Kiyoshi Atsumi (渥美 清 Atsumi Kiyoshi), born Yasuo Tadokoro (田所 康雄 Tadokoro Yasuo, 10 March 1928 in Tokyo – 4 August 1996 in Tokyo), was a Japanese film actor. He started his career in 1951 as a comedian at a strip-show theater in Asakusa. After two years of fighting pulmonary tuberculosis, he made his debut on TV in 1956 and on film in 1957. His vivid performance of a lovable, innocent man in a film “Dear Mr. Emperor” (Haikei Tenno-Heika-Sama) in 1963 established his reputation as an actor. Later he became the star of the highly popular Tora-san series of films, from the original Otoko wa Tsurai yo (translated in English as 'It's Tough being a Man') in 1969 to the 48th film released in 1995, the year before his death. The enduring success of the series made him synonymous with the Tora-san character, and many Japanese regarded his death as the death of Tora-san, not the death of Yasuo Tadokoro or Kiyoshi Atsumi.
Known For
Filmography
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Tora-san (archive footage)
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san to the Rescue
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san's Easy Advice
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san's Matchmaker
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
A Class to Remember
(cameo)
Tora-san Makes Excuses
Tora
Tora-san Confesses
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san, My Uncle
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Torajiro Kuruma
The Wives of Rokumeikan
Narrator
Downtown Heroes
Tora-san Plays Daddy
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Goes North
Torajiro Kuruma
Children on the Island
Narrator (voice)
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Torajiro Kuruma
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Kihachi
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Torajiro Kuruma
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Kuruma Torajiro
Tora-san's Song of Love
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san, the Expert
Torajiro Kuruma
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Promise
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Torajiro Kuruma
Foster Daddy, Tora!
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
Tora
A Distant Cry from Spring
Kondo
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Kuruma Torajiro
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Torajiro
Talk of the Town Tora-san
Tora
August Without Emperor
Kubo
Stage-Struck Tora-san
Tora-san Plays Cupid
Torajirō
Village of Eight Gravestones
Kosuke Kindaichi
The Yellow Handkerchief
Watanabe Kacho
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
Tora-san's Pure Love
Torajiro
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Torajiro
Friendship
The Village
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Tora
Tora-san's Lullaby
Torajiro
The Castle of Sand
Movie Theater Manager