Kiyoshi Atsumi
Known for: Acting
Born: March 9, 1928 in Tokyo, Japan - Died: August 3, 1996
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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The Yellow Handkerchief
Watanabe Kacho
In Broad Daylight
Katsuji 'Watakatsu' Watanabe
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
Neon taiheiki
Okashina yatsu
Kashô Sanyûtei
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Cook #1 (uncredited)
The Man Without a Map
Tashiro
Escape from Hell
Ichibei
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Loves an Artist
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Torajiro Kuruma
Home from the Sea
Matsushita
A Class to Remember
(cameo)
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Torajiro Kuruma
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Kuruma Torajiro
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Torajiro Kuruma
Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Torajirô Kuruma
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Kuruma Torajiro
Tora-san's Runaway
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Torajirō Kuruma
Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza
Minobu no Asakichi