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
Photos (2)
Movies (121)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Cook #1 (uncredited)
The Yellow Handkerchief
Watanabe Kacho
Village of Eight Gravestones
Kosuke Kindaichi
The Castle of Sand
Movie Theater Manager
A Class to Remember
(cameo)
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Kihachi
Tora-san's Matchmaker
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza
Minobu no Asakichi
A Distant Cry from Spring
Kondo
Tora-san Goes North
Torajiro Kuruma
Neon taiheiki
1968
Women Can't Be Beaten
1969
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san to the Rescue
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Scrap Collectors
1968
Tora-san, My Uncle
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Lovesick
Torajiro
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Kuruma Torajiro
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Tora-san (archive footage)
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Torajiro Kuruma
Foster Daddy, Tora!
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
Torajirô Kuruma
Tora-san's Easy Advice
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san, the Expert
Torajiro Kuruma
A Country Boss
Sasaki
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Ohana han
1966
Downtown Heroes
1988
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Kuruma Torajiro
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Torajiro Kuruma
Express Train
1967
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Loves an Artist
1973
The Glamorous Ghost
Hospital Guard
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Zensuke Yamashita
Tora-san Confesses
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san Plays Daddy
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Torajiro Kuruma
Sing, Young People!
Driver
Talk of the Town Tora-san
Tora
A Carpenter and Children
1962
Tora-san's Pure Love
Torajiro
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Torajirô Kuruma
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
1961
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Lullaby
Torajiro
Attack Squadron
Petty Officer Tange
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Torajiro Kuruma
Our Wonderful Years
Teiji Yoshida
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Torajiro Kuruma
The Man Without a Map
Tashiro
Tora-san's Runaway
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Tora
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Torajiro Kuruma
Gamblers' Luck
1966
Tōkyō sanosa musume
1962
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Torajiro Kuruma
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
1962
The Wives of Rokumeikan
Narrator
Where Spring Comes Late
Traveler
Tora-san's Song of Love
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Makes Excuses
Tora
Tora-san's Love Call
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Promise
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
Torajiro Kuruma
Charming Men
Okera Goro
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
1962
I'm a Bodyguard
1964
Stage-Struck Tora-san
1978
My Voiceless Friends
Tamiji Nishiyama
August Without Emperor
Kubo
風来忍法帖 八方破れ
1968
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Torajiro
Home from the Sea
Matsushita
In Broad Daylight
Katsuji 'Watakatsu' Watanabe
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
Tora
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Torajirō Kuruma
Live Again Tomorrow
木村
Escape from Hell
Ichibei
Aces Wild
1961
The Betrayers Out!
1966
Mizu tamari
1961
Good Rascals
Ushi
Traveling in Party
1967
風来忍法帖
1965
To Your Majesty, The Emperor
1963
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
1962
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
1977
Children on the Island
Narrator (voice)
The Ambitious Youth
Mitsuo Aoi
Okashina yatsu
Kashô Sanyûtei
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
1977
Tora-san Plays Cupid
Torajirō
Red Flowers of Hell
1961
Green Light to Joy
Yoshitaro Hirai
The Village
1975
Center of Tokyo
Kinnosuke
Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
1963
The Honest Fool
1964
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Torajiro
New Year Trip
1968
Izuko e
1966
ひばり・橋の花と喧嘩
参竜斉清山
Big, Big Fellow
Matsujiro Minamida
Nippon no obaachan
1962
The Song of the Bwana Toshi
Toshi
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
Kakumaru
腰抜け女兵騒動
1961
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
1968
Friendship
1975
Snow in the South Seas
1961
Obon, The Moll Dipper
1961
How to Make Money
1964
Obon's Dipping Contest
1961
Age of Japanese Guerrillas
1968
