Kiyoshi Atsumi
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
Acting
1977
asWatanabe Kacho
1968
asKatsuji 'Watakatsu' Watanabe
1962
as
1968
as
1963
asKashô Sanyûtei
1970
asCook #1 (uncredited)
1968
asTashiro
1963
asIchibei
1969
asTorajiro Kuruma
1973
as
1976
asTorajiro Kuruma
1970
asTorajiro Kuruma
1972
asMatsushita
1993
as(cameo)
1973
asTorajiro Kuruma
1962
as
1983
asKuruma Torajiro
1970
asTorajiro Kuruma
1963
as
1971
asTorajirô Kuruma
1979
asKuruma Torajiro
1970
asTorajiro Kuruma
1971
asTorajirō Kuruma
1966
asMinobu no Asakichi
1972
asTorajiro Kuruma
1984
asTorajiro Kuruma
1971
asTorajiro Kuruma
1972
asTorajiro Kuruma
1975
asTora
1974
asTorajiro
1987
asNarrator (voice)
1974
asTorajiro
1975
asTorajiro
1976
asTorajiro
1986
asKihachi
1977
as
1977
as
1962
as
1977
asTorajirō
1968
as
1978
asKubo
1989
asTorajiro Kuruma
1992
asTora
1965
asToshi
1978
as
1980
asTora
1961
as
1978
asTora
1969
asTorajirô Kuruma
1979
asTorajiro
1964
asKakumaru
1991
asTorajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1970
asOkera Goro
1966
asTeiji Yoshida
1963
as
1967
as
1968
as
1967
as
1964
asHospital Guard
1960
as
1987
asTorajiro Kuruma
1981
asTorajiro Kuruma
1988
asTorajiro Kuruma
1982
asTorajiro Kuruma
1984
asTorajiro Kuruma
1989
asTorajiro Kuruma
1985
asTorajiro Kuruma
1987
asTorajiro Kuruma
1990
asTorajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1985
asTorajiro Kuruma
1994
asTorajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1982
asTorajiro Kuruma
1983
asTorajiro Kuruma
1986
asTorajiro Kuruma
1995
asTorajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1993
asTorajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1981
asTorajiro Kuruma
1980
asTorajiro Kuruma
1968
as
1965
as
1967
asYoshitaro Hirai
1968
as
1962
asMitsuo Aoi
1968
as
1997
asTorajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1975
as
1980
asKondo
1961
as
1966
as
1962
asSasaki
1963
asDriver
1977
asKosuke Kindaichi
1964
as
1988
as
1968
as
1962
asUshi
1961
as
1970
asTraveler
1966
as
2019
asTora-san
1969
as
1962
as
1962
as
1964
as
1962
as
1972
asTamiji Nishiyama
1974
asMovie Theater Manager
1964
asZensuke Yamashita
1963
as
1964
as
1961
as
1969
asMatsujiro Minamida
1961
as
1975
as
1966
as
1974
asKinnosuke
1961
as
1966
as
1969
as参竜斉清山
1970
as木村
asas Production
Crew
Directing
