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.
Movie | Tora-san to the Rescue | Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san) | 1995-12-23 |
Movie | Tora-san's Easy Advice | Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san) | 1994-12-23 |
Movie | A Class to Remember | (cameo) | 1993-11-06 |
Movie | Tora-san's Matchmaker | Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san) | 1993-12-25 |
Movie | Tora-san Makes Excuses | Unknown | 1992-12-26 |
Movie | Tora-san Confesses | Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san) | 1991-12-23 |
Movie | Tora-san Takes a Vacation | Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san) | 1990-12-22 |
Movie | Tora-san Goes to Vienna | Torajiro Kuruma | 1989-08-05 |
Movie | Tora-san, My Uncle | Torajiro Kuruma | 1989-12-27 |
Movie | Hope and Pain | 1988-08-06 | |
Movie | Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial | Torajiro Kuruma | 1988-12-24 |
Movie | Children on the Island | Narrator (voice) | 1987-07-11 |
Movie | Tora-san Goes North | Torajiro Kuruma | 1987-08-15 |
Movie | Tora-san Plays Daddy | Torajiro Kuruma | 1987-12-26 |
Movie | Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies | Kihachi | 1986-08-02 |
Movie | Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy | Torajiro Kuruma | 1986-12-20 |
Movie | Tora-san, the Go-Between | Torajiro Kuruma | 1985-08-03 |
Movie | Tora-san's Island Encounter | Torajiro Kuruma | 1985-12-28 |
Movie | Marriage Counselor Tora-san | Torajiro Kuruma | 1984-08-04 |
Movie | Tora-san's Forbidden Love | Torajiro Kuruma | 1984-12-28 |
Movie | Tora-san's Song of Love | Torajiro Kuruma | 1983-08-06 |
Movie | Tora-san Goes Religious? | Kuruma Torajiro | 1983-12-28 |
Movie | Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san | Torajiro Kuruma | 1982-08-07 |
Movie | Tora-san, the Expert | Torajiro Kuruma | 1982-12-28 |
Movie | Tora-san's Love in Osaka | Torajiro Kuruma | 1981-08-08 |
Movie | Tora-san's Promise | Torajiro Kuruma | 1981-12-28 |
Movie | A Distant Cry from Spring | Kondo | 1980-03-15 |
Movie | Foster Daddy, Tora! | Torajiro Kuruma | 1980-12-27 |
Movie | Tora-san's Tropical Fever | Unknown | 1980-08-02 |
Movie | Tora-san, the Matchmaker | Torajiro | 1979-08-04 |
Movie | Tora-san's Dream of Spring | Kuruma Torajiro | 1979-12-28 |
Movie | Stage-Struck Tora-san | Unknown | 1978-08-05 |
Movie | August without Emperor | Kubo | 1978-09-23 |
Movie | Talk of the Town Tora-san | Tora | 1978-12-27 |
Movie | Tora-san Meets His Lordship | Unknown | 1977-08-06 |
Movie | The Yellow Handkerchief | Watanabe Kacho | 1977-09-30 |
Movie | Village of Eight Gravestones | Kosuke Kindaichi | 1977-10-29 |
Movie | Tora-san Plays Cupid | Torajirō | 1977-12-24 |
Movie | The Village | Unknown | 1976-04-12 |
Movie | Tora-san's Pure Love | Torajiro | 1976-12-25 |
Movie | Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset | Torajiro Kuruma | 1976-07-23 |
Movie | Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again | Tora | 1975-08-19 |
Movie | Tora-san, the Intellectual | Torajiro | 1975-12-27 |
Movie | Tora-san's Lovesick | Torajiro | 1974-08-10 |
Movie | Tora-san's Lullaby | Torajiro | 1974-12-28 |
Movie | The Castle of Sand | Movie Theater Manager | 1974-10-19 |
Movie | Tora-san's Forget Me Not | Torajiro Kuruma | 1973-01-04 |
Movie | Tora-san Loves an Artist | Unknown | 1973-12-25 |
Movie | My Voiceless Friends | Tamiji Nishiyama | 1972-04-29 |
Movie | Tora-san's Dear Old Home | Torajiro Kuruma | 1972-08-05 |
Movie | Tora-san's Dream-Come-True | Torajiro Kuruma | 1972-12-29 |
Movie | Home from the Sea | Matsushita | 1972-10-28 |
Movie | Tora-san, the Good Samaritan | Torajirō Kuruma | 1971-04-28 |
Movie | Tora-san's Shattered Romance | Torajirô Kuruma | 1971-01-15 |
Movie | Tora-san's Love Call | Torajiro Kuruma | 1971-12-29 |
Movie | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Cook #1 (uncredited) | 1970-01-26 |
Movie | Tora-san's Grand Scheme | Torajiro Kuruma | 1970-02-26 |
Movie | Tora-san, His Tender Love | Torajiro Kuruma | 1970-01-15 |
Movie | Tora-san's Runaway | Torajiro Kuruma | 1970-08-26 |
Movie | Where Spring Comes Late | Traveler | 1970-10-24 |
Movie | It's Tough Being a Man | Torajirô Kuruma | 1969-08-27 |
Movie | Women Can't Be Beaten | Unknown | 1969-10-01 |
Movie | Tora-san's Cherished Mother | Torajiro Kuruma | 1969-11-14 |
Movie | The Man Without a Map | Tashiro | 1968-06-01 |
Movie | New Year Trip | Unknown | 1968-01-03 |
Movie | Neon taiheiki | Unknown | 1968-04-13 |
Movie | The Day the Sun Rose | Unknown | 1968-11-23 |
Movie | Scrap Collectors | 1968-11-28 | |
Movie | Green Light to Joy | Yoshitaro Hirai | 1967-12-06 |
Movie | Gamblers' Luck | 1966-03-19 | |
Movie | Kutsukake Tokijiro: The Lonely Yakuza | Minobu no Asakichi | 1966-04-01 |
Movie | Our Wonderful Years | Teiji Yoshida | 1966-09-30 |
Movie | 風来忍法帖 | Unknown | 1965-05-16 |
Movie | The Song of the Bwana Toshi | Toshi | 1965-07-05 |
Movie | Dear Mr. Prime Minister | Kakumaru | 1964-04-29 |
Movie | The Honest Fool | Unknown | 1964-01-15 |
Movie | The Glamorous Ghost | Hospital Guard | 1964-10-03 |
Movie | Sing, Young People | Driver | 1963-01-06 |
Movie | The Ambitious Youth | Mitsuo Aoi | 1962-06-03 |
Movie | Nippon no obaachan | Unknown | 1962-01-03 |
Movie | Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido | Unknown | 1962-01-03 |
Movie | A Carpenter and Children | 1962-06-10 | |
Movie | Ottamage ningyo monogatari | Unknown | 1962-06-15 |
Movie | Obon, The Moll Dipper | Unknown | 1961-04-16 |
Movie | 腰抜け女兵騒動 | Unknown | 1961-01-26 |
Movie | Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region | Unknown | 1961-06-21 |
Movie | Snow in the South Seas | Unknown | 1961-09-29 |
Movie | 若社長と爆発娘 | Unknown | 1960-03-06 |
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