Kiyoshi Atsumi
Acting
🎂 1928-03-10
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.
Cast credits(120)
1968
1970
Kubo
1978
Cook #1 (uncredited)
1970
1978
Torajiro Kuruma
1987
Torajiro Kuruma
1985
Traveler
1970
1963
Watanabe Kacho
1977
Kondo
1980
Movie Theater Manager
1974
Tashiro
1968
Tora-san
2019
Torajirô Kuruma
1969
Torajiro Kuruma
1981
Kosuke Kindaichi
1977
Tora
1975
Kihachi
1986
Torajiro Kuruma
1984
1980
Torajiro Kuruma
1987
Kuruma Torajiro
1979
Tora
1978
1962
Torajiro Kuruma
1971
Torajiro
1974
1968
Torajiro
1976
Sasaki
1962
1967
Kuruma Torajiro
1983
Toshi
1965
Hospital Guard
1964
1963
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1997
Matsushita
1972
Driver
1963
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1995
Ichibei
1963
Torajiro Kuruma
1976
Torajiro Kuruma
1989
1988
1960
Ushi
1962
1962
Torajirō Kuruma
1971
Torajirô Kuruma
1971
Torajiro Kuruma
1984
1966
1961
Minobu no Asakichi
1966
Torajiro Kuruma
1982
Torajiro Kuruma
1986
Torajiro Kuruma
1985
1966
1965
1968
1964
1961
Yoshitaro Hirai
1967
1964
Zensuke Yamashita
1964
Narrator (voice)
1987
Tamiji Nishiyama
1972
1967
Mitsuo Aoi
1962
Katsuji 'Watakatsu' Watanabe
1968
Kakumaru
1964
1968
1961
Torajiro Kuruma
1970
1964
1962
Kashô Sanyûtei
1963
1961
1962
1963
1961
1977
Torajiro Kuruma
1983
Okera Goro
1970
Torajiro Kuruma
1980
Torajiro Kuruma
1970
Torajiro Kuruma
1969
Matsujiro Minamida
1969
(cameo)
1993
1966
1968
1961
1962
Torajiro Kuruma
1988
1968
1975
1976
Kinnosuke
1974
Torajiro
1975
1977
Torajiro
1974
Torajiro Kuruma
1981
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1990
1992
Torajiro Kuruma
1970
1966
Torajirō
1977
1962
Torajiro Kuruma
1972
Torajiro
1979
Torajiro Kuruma
1972
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1993
Torajiro Kuruma
1989
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1994
Torajiro Kuruma
1973
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1991
Torajiro Kuruma
1982
1973
Teiji Yoshida
1966
1968
1968
1969