Kiyoshi Atsumi
Acting
Born: 1928-03-10 in 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
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Cook #1 (uncredited)
ひばり・橋の花と喧嘩
参竜斉清山
A Country Boss
Sasaki
Otora-san's Business is Booming
A Carpenter and Children
It's Tough Being a Man
New Year Trip
Charming Men
Okera Goro
The Yellow Handkerchief
Watanabe Kacho
Tora-san Goes North
Torajiro Kuruma
Women Can't Be Beaten
Sing, Young People!
Driver
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Torajirô Kuruma
Traveling in Party
Scrap Collectors
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Torajiro Kuruma
おれの義姉さん
The Castle of Sand
Movie Theater Manager
Tora-san to the Rescue
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
The Betrayers Out!
Village of Eight Gravestones
Kosuke Kindaichi
My Voiceless Friends
Tamiji Nishiyama
Age of Japanese Guerrillas
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Torajiro Kuruma
The Song of the Bwana Toshi
Toshi
Tora-san Confesses
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
The Glamorous Ghost
Hospital Guard
Tora-san's Matchmaker
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
Nippon no obaachan
Live Again Tomorrow
木村
A Distant Cry from Spring
Kondo
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Kihachi
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
Kakumaru
The Man Without a Map
Tashiro
Tora-san, My Uncle
Torajiro Kuruma
Big, Big Fellow
Matsujiro Minamida
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Torajiro Kuruma
August Without Emperor
Kubo
