Kiyoshi Atsumi
Acting • Born 1928-03-10 – Died 1996-08-04
Biography
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.
Filmography
122 credits
The Yellow Handkerchief
Movie • 1977
Watanabe Kacho
In Broad Daylight
Movie • 1968
Katsuji 'Watakatsu' Watanabe
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
Movie • 1962
Neon taiheiki
Movie • 1968
Okashina yatsu
Movie • 1963
Kashô Sanyûtei
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie • 1970
Cook #1 (uncredited)
The Man Without a Map
Movie • 1968
Tashiro
Escape from Hell
Movie • 1963
Ichibei
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Movie • 1969
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Loves an Artist
Movie • 1973
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Movie • 1976
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Movie • 1970
Torajiro Kuruma
Home from the Sea
Movie • 1972
Matsushita
A Class to Remember
Movie • 1993
(cameo)
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Movie • 1973
Torajiro Kuruma
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
Movie • 1962
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Movie • 1983
Kuruma Torajiro
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Movie • 1970
Torajiro Kuruma
Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
Movie • 1963
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Movie • 1971
Torajirô Kuruma
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Movie • 1979
Kuruma Torajiro
Tora-san's Runaway
Movie • 1970
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Movie • 1971
Torajirō Kuruma
Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza
Movie • 1966
Minobu no Asakichi
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
Movie • 1972
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Movie • 1984
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Love Call
Movie • 1971
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Movie • 1972
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Movie • 1975
Tora
Tora-san's Lovesick
Movie • 1974
Torajiro
Children on the Island
Movie • 1987
Narrator (voice)
Tora-san's Lullaby
Movie • 1974
Torajiro
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Movie • 1975
Torajiro
Tora-san's Pure Love
Movie • 1976
Torajiro
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Movie • 1986
Kihachi
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Movie • 1977
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
Movie • 1977
Tōkyō sanosa musume
Movie • 1962
Tora-san Plays Cupid
Movie • 1977
Torajirō
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
Movie • 1968
August Without Emperor
Movie • 1978
Kubo
Tora-san, My Uncle
Movie • 1989
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Makes Excuses
Movie • 1992
Tora
The Song of the Bwana Toshi
Movie • 1965
Toshi
Stage-Struck Tora-san
Movie • 1978
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
Movie • 1980
Tora
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
Movie • 1961
Talk of the Town Tora-san
Movie • 1978
Tora
Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
Movie • 1969
Torajirô Kuruma
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Movie • 1979
Torajiro
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
Movie • 1964
Kakumaru
Tora-san Confesses
Movie • 1991
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Charming Men
Movie • 1970
Okera Goro
Our Wonderful Years
Movie • 1966
Teiji Yoshida
Attack Squadron
Movie • 1963
Express Train
Movie • 1967
New Year Trip
Movie • 1968
Traveling in Party
Movie • 1967
The Glamorous Ghost
Movie • 1964
Hospital Guard
若社長と爆発娘
Movie • 1960
Tora-san Goes North
Movie • 1987
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Promise
Movie • 1981
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Movie • 1988
Torajiro Kuruma
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Movie • 1982
Torajiro Kuruma
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Movie • 1984
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Movie • 1989
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Movie • 1985
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Plays Daddy
Movie • 1987
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Movie • 1990
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Movie • 1985
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Easy Advice
Movie • 1994
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san, the Expert
Movie • 1982
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Song of Love
Movie • 1983
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Movie • 1986
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san to the Rescue
Movie • 1995
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san's Matchmaker
Movie • 1993
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Movie • 1981
Torajiro Kuruma
Foster Daddy, Tora!
Movie • 1980
Torajiro Kuruma
風来忍法帖 八方破れ
Movie • 1968
風来忍法帖
Movie • 1965
Green Light to Joy
Movie • 1967
Yoshitaro Hirai
The Day the Sun Rose
Movie • 1968
The Ambitious Youth
Movie • 1962
Mitsuo Aoi
Age of Japanese Guerrillas
Movie • 1968
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Movie • 1997
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
The Village
Movie • 1975
A Distant Cry from Spring
Movie • 1980
Kondo
Snow in the South Seas
Movie • 1961
The Betrayers Out!
Movie • 1966
A Country Boss
Movie • 1962
Sasaki
Sing, Young People!
Movie • 1963
Driver
Village of Eight Gravestones
Movie • 1977
Kosuke Kindaichi
How to Make Money
Movie • 1964
Downtown Heroes
Movie • 1988
Scrap Collectors
Movie • 1968
Good Rascals
Movie • 1962
Ushi
Obon, The Moll Dipper
Movie • 1961
Where Spring Comes Late
Movie • 1970
Traveler
Gamblers' Luck
Movie • 1966
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Movie • 2019
Tora-san (archive footage)
Women Can't Be Beaten
Movie • 1969
Nippon no obaachan
Movie • 1962
A Carpenter and Children
Movie • 1962
The Honest Fool
Movie • 1964
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Movie • 1962
My Voiceless Friends
Movie • 1972
Tamiji Nishiyama
The Castle of Sand
Movie • 1974
Movie Theater Manager
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Movie • 1964
Zensuke Yamashita
To Your Majesty, The Emperor
Movie • 1963
I'm a Bodyguard
Movie • 1964
腰抜け女兵騒動
Movie • 1961
Big, Big Fellow
Movie • 1969
Matsujiro Minamida
Aces Wild
Movie • 1961
Friendship
Movie • 1975
Ohana han
Movie • 1966
Center of Tokyo
Movie • 1974
Kinnosuke
Red Flowers of Hell
Movie • 1961
Izuko e
Movie • 1966
ひばり・橋の花と喧嘩
Movie • 1969
参竜斉清山
Live Again Tomorrow
Movie • 1970
木村
It's Tough Being a Man
TV • 1968
おれの義姉さん
TV • 1970