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Kiyoshi Atsumi

Kiyoshi Atsumi

Actor · Born 1928-03-10 · Tokyo, Japan

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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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) — Cook #1 (uncredited)
  2. The Castle of Sand (1974) — Movie Theater Manager
  3. The Yellow Handkerchief (1977) — Watanabe Kacho
  4. A Distant Cry from Spring (1980) — Kondo
  5. Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp (1969) — Torajirô Kuruma
  6. The Man Without a Map (1968) — Tashiro
  7. Where Spring Comes Late (1970) — Traveler
  8. Tora-san's Cherished Mother (1969) — Torajiro Kuruma
  9. The Village (1975)
  10. Village of Eight Gravestones (1977) — Kosuke Kindaichi
  11. Home from the Sea (1972) — Matsushita
  12. Tora-san, His Tender Love (1970) — Torajiro Kuruma
  13. Downtown Heroes (1988)
  14. Tora-san Loves an Artist (1973)
  15. Tora-san's Forget Me Not (1973) — Torajiro Kuruma
  16. Tora-san's Runaway (1970) — Torajiro Kuruma
  17. Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies (1986) — Kihachi
  18. Tora-san, the Good Samaritan (1971) — Torajirō Kuruma
  19. Tora-san's Love Call (1971) — Torajiro Kuruma
  20. Tora-san's Dream-Come-True (1972) — Torajiro Kuruma
  21. Escape from Hell (1963) — Ichibei
  22. Tora-san's Grand Scheme (1970) — Torajiro Kuruma
  23. A Class to Remember (1993) — (cameo)
  24. Tora-san's Shattered Romance (1971) — Torajirô Kuruma
  25. Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza (1966) — Minobu no Asakichi
  26. Tora-san's Dear Old Home (1972) — Torajiro Kuruma
  27. Tora-san's Lullaby (1974) — Torajiro
  28. Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset (1976) — Torajiro Kuruma
  29. Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again (1975) — Tora
  30. Tora-san's Lovesick (1974) — Torajiro
  31. Tora-san, the Intellectual (1975) — Torajiro
  32. Tora-san Plays Cupid (1977) — Torajirō
  33. Sing, Young People! (1963) — Driver
  34. Tora-san's Dream of Spring (1979) — Kuruma Torajiro
  35. Tora-san's Pure Love (1976) — Torajiro
  36. Tora-san Meets His Lordship (1977)
  37. August Without Emperor (1978) — Kubo
  38. Tora-san, My Uncle (1989) — Torajiro Kuruma
  39. Stage-Struck Tora-san (1978)
  40. Tora-san Goes North (1987) — Torajiro Kuruma