
Kiyoshi Atsumi
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 10, 1928
- Died
- August 4, 1996 (aged 68)
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Japan
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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Filmography

Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Movie · as 寅次郎 (存档胶片)

Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san to the Rescue
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san's Easy Advice
Movie · as 寅次郎

A Class to Remember
Movie · as (cameo)

Tora-san's Matchmaker
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san Makes Excuses
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san Confesses
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san, My Uncle
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Movie · as 寅次郎

Downtown Heroes
Movie

The Wives of Rokumeikan
Movie · as Narrator

Children on the Island
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Tora-san Goes North
Movie · as Torajiro Kuruma

Tora-san Plays Daddy
Movie · as 寅次郎

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Movie · as Kihachi

Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san's Island Encounter
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san, the Go-Between
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Movie · as 寅次郎

Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san Goes Religious?
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san's Song of Love
Movie · as 寅次郎

Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san, the Expert
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san's Promise
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san's Tropical Fever
Movie · as 寅次郎

Foster Daddy, Tora!
Movie · as 寅次郎

A Distant Cry from Spring
Movie · as Kondo

Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Movie · as 寅次郎

August Without Emperor
Movie · as Kubo

Stage-Struck Tora-san
Movie · as 寅次郎

Talk of the Town Tora-san
Movie · as 寅次郎

The Yellow Handkerchief
Movie · as Watanabe Kacho

Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Movie · as 寅次郎

田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
Movie

Tora-san Plays Cupid
Movie · as 寅次郎

Village of Eight Gravestones
Movie · as Kosuke Kindaichi

Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san's Pure Love
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san, the Intellectual
Movie · as 寅次郎

The Village
Movie

Friendship
Movie

Tora-san's Lovesick
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san's Lullaby
Movie · as 寅次郎

The Castle of Sand
Movie · as Movie Theater Manager

Center of Tokyo
Movie · as Kinnosuke

Tora-san Loves an Artist
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Movie · as 寅次郎

Home from the Sea
Movie · as Matsushita

Tora-san's Dear Old Home
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Movie · as 寅次郎

My Voiceless Friends
Movie · as Tamiji Nishiyama

Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san's Love Call
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie · as Cook #1 (uncredited)

Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san, His Tender Love
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san's Runaway
Movie · as 寅次郎

Charming Men
Movie · as Okera Goro

Where Spring Comes Late
Movie · as Traveler

Live Again Tomorrow
Movie · as 木村
おれの義姉さん
TV · 27 eps

Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Movie · as 寅次郎

Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
Movie · as 寅次郎

Women Can't Be Beaten
Movie

Big, Big Fellow
Movie · as Matsujiro Minamida

ひばり・橋の花と喧嘩
Movie · as 参竜斉清山

In Broad Daylight
Movie · as Katsuji 'Watakatsu' Watanabe

The Neon Taiheiki
Movie

The Man Without a Map
Movie · as Tashiro

It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
Movie

New Year Trip
Movie

Homeless Ninja Trick Book: Lose in All Directions
Movie
The Day the Sun Rose
Movie

Age of Japanese Guerrillas
Movie

Scrap Collectors
Movie

It's Tough Being a Man
TV · 26 eps

Express Train
Movie

Traveling in Party
Movie

Green Light to Joy
Movie · as Yoshitaro Hirai

Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza
Movie · as Minobu no Asakichi

The Song of the Bwana Toshi
Movie · as Toshi

Our Wonderful Years
Movie · as Teiji Yoshida

The Betrayers Out!
Movie

Gamblers' Luck
Movie

Ohana han
Movie

Izuko e
Movie

泣いてたまるか
TV · 1 ep

Homeless Ninja Trick Book
Movie

Dear Mr. Prime Minister
Movie · as Kakumaru

The Glamorous Ghost
Movie · as Hospital Guard

How to Make Money
Movie

The Honest Fool
Movie

To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Movie · as Zensuke Yamashita

I'm a Bodyguard
Movie

Okashina yatsu
Movie · as Kashô Sanyûtei

Escape from Hell
Movie · as Ichibei

Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
Movie

Attack Squadron
Movie · as Petty Officer Tange

Sing, Young People!
Movie · as Driver

To Your Majesty, The Emperor
Movie

Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
Movie

Ottamage ningyo monogatari
Movie

Tōkyō sanosa musume
Movie

The Ambitious Youth
Movie · as Mitsuo Aoi

A Country Boss
Movie · as Sasaki

Good Rascals
Movie · as Ushi

Nippon no obaachan
Movie

A Carpenter and Children
Movie

Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Movie

Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
Movie

Snow in the South Seas
Movie

Obon, The Moll Dipper
Movie

The Troubles of Wimpy Women Soldiers
Movie

Aces Wild
Movie

Red Flowers of Hell
Movie

Mizu tamari
Movie

Obon's Dipping Contest
Movie

Tōshi reijō
Movie
若社長と爆発娘
Movie

Count on Me
Movie

Otora-san's Business is Booming
Movie

