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