Kiyoshi Atsumi
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
It's Tough Being a Man
おれの義姉さん
A Distant Cry from Spring
Kondo
The Yellow Handkerchief
Watanabe Kacho
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Cook #1 (uncredited)
The Castle of Sand
Movie Theater Manager
Attack Squadron
The Man Without a Map
Tashiro
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Kihachi
Sing, Young People
Driver
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Torajiro Kuruma
August without Emperor
Kubo
Escape from Hell
Ichibei
Village of Eight Gravestones
Kosuke Kindaichi
Tora-san's Love Call
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Tora-san
Tora-san Plays Daddy
Torajiro Kuruma
To Your Majesty, The Emperor
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Kuruma Torajiro
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Tora
Express Train
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Kuruma Torajiro
Home from the Sea
Matsushita
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Torajiro Kuruma
It's Tough Being a Man
Torajirô Kuruma
Tora-san's Lullaby
Torajiro
Talk of the Town Tora-san
Tora
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Torajiro Kuruma
New Year Trip
Tora-san, My Uncle
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san, the Expert
Torajiro Kuruma
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Zensuke Yamashita
Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza
Minobu no Asakichi
Where Spring Comes Late
Traveler
Children on the Island
Narrator (voice)
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
My Voiceless Friends
Tamiji Nishiyama
Good Rascals
Ushi
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Torajirō Kuruma
The Betrayers Out!
A Carpenter and Children
風来忍法帖 八方破れ
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Torajiro Kuruma
A Country Boss
Sasaki
The Honest Fool
Obon, The Moll Dipper
Foster Daddy, Tora!
Torajiro Kuruma
風来忍法帖
Downtown Heroes
The Ambitious Youth
Mitsuo Aoi
Tora-san's Pure Love
Torajiro
Green Light to Joy
Yoshitaro Hirai
Tōkyō sanosa musume
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
Snow in the South Seas
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
How to Make Money
Tora-san to the Rescue
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
若社長と爆発娘
The Glamorous Ghost
Hospital Guard
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Torajiro Kuruma
Charming Men
Okera Goro
Ohana han
Okashina yatsu
Kashô Sanyûtei
In Broad Daylight
Katsuji 'Watakatsu' Watanabe
Traveling in Party
Tokyo do mannaka
Kinnosuke
Tora-san Goes North
Torajiro Kuruma
Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
Aces Wild
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
Red Flowers of Hell
腰抜け女兵騒動
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Torajiro Kuruma
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
Kakumaru
I'm a Bodyguard
Age of Japanese Guerrillas
A Class to Remember
(cameo)
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Torajirô Kuruma
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Torajiro Kuruma
The Song of the Bwana Toshi
Toshi
Friendship
Big, Big Fellow
Matsujiro Minamida
Stage-Struck Tora-san
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Torajiro
Izuko e
Tora-san Makes Excuses
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Torajiro Kuruma
The Village
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Plays Cupid
Torajirō
Tora-san Loves an Artist
Tora-san's Runaway
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Song of Love
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Confesses
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san's Lovesick
Torajiro
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Torajiro
Tora-san's Promise
Torajiro Kuruma
The Day the Sun Rose
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Matchmaker
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
Torajiro Kuruma
Gamblers' Luck
Tora-san's Easy Advice
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Our Wonderful Years
Teiji Yoshida
Nippon no obaachan
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Torajiro Kuruma
Neon taiheiki
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Torajiro Kuruma