Kiyoshi Atsumi
Acting
Born 1928-03-10
Died 1996-08-04
Tokyo, Japan
125 credits
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
49 credits
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Tora-san's Matchmaker
The Yellow Handkerchief
August Without Emperor
The Castle of Sand
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Village of Eight Gravestones
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Tora-san Goes Religious?
A Distant Cry from Spring
Tora-san's Pure Love
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Tora-san, My Uncle
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Foster Daddy, Tora!
Tora-san Plays Daddy
Tora-san Confesses
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
A Class to Remember
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Tora-san Goes North
Tora-san's Song of Love
Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Tora-san's Runaway
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
The Man Without a Map
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
The Wives of Rokumeikan
Tora-san Makes Excuses
Tora-san, the Expert
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Tora-san Plays Cupid
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Tora-san's Easy Advice
Tora-san's Lullaby
Tora-san's Love Call
Tora-san's Lovesick
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Other credits
11 credits
It's Tough Being a Man
Women Can't Be Beaten
Neon taiheiki
Scrap Collectors
おれの義姉さん
Attack Squadron
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
The Day the Sun Rose
The Village
Stage-Struck Tora-san
Tora-san Loves an Artist
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