Kiyoshi Atsumi
Acting
Born: March 10, 1928 · Tokyo, Japan
Died: August 4, 1996 (aged 68)
Highest Rated
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
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Movies (123)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Cook #1 (uncredited)
The Yellow Handkerchief
Watanabe Kacho
The Castle of Sand
Movie Theater Manager
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
寅次郎
A Distant Cry from Spring
Kondo
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Kihachi
Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
寅次郎
Tora-san, His Tender Love
寅次郎
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
寅次郎
The Man Without a Map
Tashiro
Tora-san Plays Daddy
寅次郎
Talk of the Town Tora-san
寅次郎
Tora-san Goes Religious?
寅次郎
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
寅次郎
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
寅次郎 (存档胶片)
August Without Emperor
Kubo
A Class to Remember
(cameo)
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
寅次郎
Tora-san's Promise
寅次郎
Tora-san Goes North
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
寅次郎
Tora-san's Runaway
寅次郎
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
寅次郎
The Village
1975
Stage-Struck Tora-san
寅次郎
Village of Eight Gravestones
Kosuke Kindaichi
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
寅次郎
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
寅次郎
Home from the Sea
Matsushita
Where Spring Comes Late
Traveler
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
寅次郎
Tora-san Plays Cupid
寅次郎
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
寅次郎
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
寅次郎
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
1968
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
寅次郎
Tora-san's Lovesick
寅次郎
Ohana han
1966
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
寅次郎
Attack Squadron
Petty Officer Tange
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Zensuke Yamashita
Children on the Island
Narrator (voice)
Tora-san's Song of Love
寅次郎
Downtown Heroes
1988
Tora-san, the Expert
寅次郎
Tora-san to the Rescue
寅次郎
A Carpenter and Children
1962
Tora-san Loves an Artist
寅次郎
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
1962
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
寅次郎
Tora-san's Pure Love
寅次郎
Tora-san, My Uncle
寅次郎
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
寅次郎
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
寅次郎
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
寅次郎
Escape from Hell
Ichibei
Tora-san's Love Call
寅次郎
Tora-san Confesses
寅次郎
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
寅次郎
Tora-san Makes Excuses
寅次郎
Tora-san's Island Encounter
寅次郎
Tora-san, the Go-Between
寅次郎
Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza
Minobu no Asakichi
Tora-san's Lullaby
寅次郎
Tora-san, the Intellectual
寅次郎
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
1977
Center of Tokyo
Kinnosuke
Foster Daddy, Tora!
寅次郎
Good Rascals
Ushi
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
寅次郎
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
寅次郎
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
寅次郎
A Country Boss
Sasaki
The Glamorous Ghost
Hospital Guard
Big, Big Fellow
Matsujiro Minamida
To Your Majesty, The Emperor
1963
Traveling in Party
1967
Sing, Young People!
Driver
Age of Japanese Guerrillas
1968
Okashina yatsu
Kashô Sanyûtei
The Song of the Bwana Toshi
Toshi
Snow in the South Seas
1961
Charming Men
Okera Goro
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
寅次郎
The Honest Fool
1964
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
1962
Women Can't Be Beaten
1969
In Broad Daylight
Katsuji 'Watakatsu' Watanabe
Tora-san's Matchmaker
寅次郎
Express Train
1967
Our Wonderful Years
Teiji Yoshida
New Year Trip
1968
Tōkyō sanosa musume
1962
Obon's Dipping Contest
1961
Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
1963
I'm a Bodyguard
1964
Obon, The Moll Dipper
1961
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
1961
Red Flowers of Hell
1961
The Troubles of Wimpy Women Soldiers
1961
Nippon no obaachan
1962
My Voiceless Friends
Tamiji Nishiyama
Homeless Ninja Trick Book: Lose in All Directions
1968
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
1962
Homeless Ninja Trick Book
1965
Tora-san's Easy Advice
寅次郎
The Betrayers Out!
1966
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
Kakumaru
Gamblers' Luck
1966
Mizu tamari
1961
Otora-san's Business is Booming
1958
The Neon Taiheiki
1968
Count on Me
1960
Live Again Tomorrow
木村
The Wives of Rokumeikan
Narrator
How to Make Money
1964
Green Light to Joy
Yoshitaro Hirai
The Ambitious Youth
Mitsuo Aoi
Izuko e
1966
Scrap Collectors
1968
Friendship
1975
Aces Wild
1961
ひばり・橋の花と喧嘩
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