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