Kiyoshi Atsumi

Known for ActingBorn 1928-03-10Died 1996-08-04Tokyo, Japan

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Children on the Island

Obon, The Moll Dipper

Tora-san's Pure Love

Tora-san's Matchmaker

Tora-san Goes North

Tora-san's Love in Osaka

My Voiceless Friends

Charming Men

Neon taiheiki

Snow in the South Seas

Tora-san Goes to Vienna

Tora-san Meets His Lordship

Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset

Tora-san, the Expert

Tora-san's Promise

Tora-san, the Matchmaker

Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version

Tora-san's Easy Advice

Downtown Heroes

Tora-san Confesses

Tora-san, Wish You Were Here

Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial

Tora-san Plays Daddy

Tora-san's Island Encounter

Tora-san Loves an Artist

Tora-san's Forget Me Not

Tora-san's Song of Love

Tora-san's Love Call

Tora-san's Tropical Fever

Tora-san, My Uncle

Tora-san's Dear Old Home

Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

Tora-san's Dream of Spring

Stage-Struck Tora-san

Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again

Tora-san, the Intellectual

Tora-san Makes Excuses

Tora-san's Forbidden Love

Marriage Counselor Tora-san

Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san

Foster Daddy, Tora!

Talk of the Town Tora-san

Tora-san Plays Cupid

Tora-san to the Rescue

Tora-san's Lovesick

Tora-san, the Good Samaritan

Tora-san's Runaway

The Day the Sun Rose