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