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