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.
★7.2
MOVIE1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Cook #1 (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1993
Tora-san's Matchmaker
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
★8.0
MOVIE1968
Scrap Collectors
★9.0
MOVIE1968
Neon taiheiki
★7.5
MOVIE1969
Women Can't Be Beaten
★8.0
MOVIE1968
The Day the Sun Rose
★7.0
MOVIE1977
The Yellow Handkerchief
as Watanabe Kacho
MOVIE1988
The Wives of Rokumeikan
as Narrator
MOVIE1970
Live Again Tomorrow
as 木村
★6.0
MOVIE1967
Express Train
★7.4
MOVIE1974
The Castle of Sand
as Movie Theater Manager
★7.0
MOVIE1977
Village of Eight Gravestones
as Kosuke Kindaichi
★7.7
MOVIE1970
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
as Torajiro Kuruma
★6.6
MOVIE1986
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
as Kihachi
★7.3
MOVIE1978
August Without Emperor
as Kubo
★6.6
MOVIE1968
The Man Without a Map
as Tashiro
★7.9
MOVIE1969
Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
as Torajirô Kuruma
★7.0
MOVIE1963
Attack Squadron
★8.0
MOVIE1980
Foster Daddy, Tora!
as Torajiro Kuruma
★7.8
MOVIE1974
Tora-san's Lullaby
as Torajiro
★7.8
MOVIE1995
Tora-san to the Rescue
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
★7.0
MOVIE1968
New Year Trip
★8.7
MOVIE1981
Tora-san's Promise
as Torajiro Kuruma
★7.7
MOVIE1970
Where Spring Comes Late
as Traveler
★8.3
MOVIE1991
Tora-san Confesses
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
★7.4
MOVIE1980
A Distant Cry from Spring
as Kondo
★8.0
MOVIE1984
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
as Torajiro Kuruma
★8.7
MOVIE1982
Tora-san, the Expert
as Torajiro Kuruma
★8.0
MOVIE1970
Tora-san's Runaway
as Torajiro Kuruma
★6.8
MOVIE1969
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
as Torajiro Kuruma
★8.3
MOVIE1985
Tora-san's Island Encounter
as Torajiro Kuruma
★7.2
MOVIE1972
Home from the Sea
as Matsushita
★8.0
MOVIE2019
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
as Tora-san (archive footage)
★9.0
MOVIE1981
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
as Torajiro Kuruma
★8.8
MOVIE1977
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
★7.3
MOVIE1993
A Class to Remember
as (cameo)
★7.4
MOVIE1975
The Village
★7.7
MOVIE1983
Tora-san Goes Religious?
as Kuruma Torajiro
★8.4
MOVIE1973
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
as Torajiro Kuruma
★9.0
MOVIE1987
Tora-san Goes North
as Torajiro Kuruma
★8.3
MOVIE1988
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
as Torajiro Kuruma
★7.7
MOVIE1971
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
as Torajirô Kuruma
★8.5
MOVIE1994
Tora-san's Easy Advice
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
★8.2
MOVIE1979
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
as Kuruma Torajiro
★8.0
MOVIE1978
Talk of the Town Tora-san
as Tora
★7.4
MOVIE1970
Tora-san, His Tender Love
as Torajiro Kuruma
MOVIE1963
To Your Majesty, The Emperor
★10.0
MOVIE1987
Children on the Island
as Narrator (voice)
★8.3
MOVIE1972
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
as Torajiro Kuruma
★8.6
MOVIE1988
Downtown Heroes
★7.3
MOVIE1986
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
as Torajiro Kuruma
★8.0
MOVIE1974
Tora-san's Lovesick
as Torajiro
★8.0
MOVIE1982
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
as Torajiro Kuruma
★8.2
MOVIE1975
Tora-san, the Intellectual
as Torajiro
★8.3
MOVIE1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
as Torajiro Kuruma
★7.7
MOVIE1990
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
★7.2
MOVIE1966
Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza
as Minobu no Asakichi
★8.0
MOVIE1992
Tora-san Makes Excuses
as Tora
★8.3
MOVIE1972
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
as Torajiro Kuruma
★8.7
MOVIE1989
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
as Torajiro Kuruma
★8.2
MOVIE1989
Tora-san, My Uncle
as Torajiro Kuruma
★9.0
MOVIE1961
Snow in the South Seas
★8.4
MOVIE1971
Tora-san's Love Call
as Torajiro Kuruma
★8.0
MOVIE1977
Tora-san Plays Cupid
as Torajirō
★9.2
MOVIE1976
Tora-san's Pure Love
as Torajiro
MOVIE1974
Center of Tokyo
as Kinnosuke
★8.3
MOVIE1987
Tora-san Plays Daddy
as Torajiro Kuruma
★8.5
MOVIE1997
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
★7.0
MOVIE1961
Red Flowers of Hell
★9.0
MOVIE1970
Charming Men
as Okera Goro
MOVIE1966
Ohana han
★7.0
MOVIE1962
Nippon no obaachan
★6.2
MOVIE1963
Sing, Young People!
as Driver
★8.0
MOVIE1984
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
as Torajiro Kuruma
★9.0
MOVIE1972
My Voiceless Friends
as Tamiji Nishiyama
★8.0
MOVIE1964
The Honest Fool
MOVIE1968
風来忍法帖 八方破れ
★6.0
MOVIE1962
Good Rascals
as Ushi
★6.9
MOVIE1985
Tora-san, the Go-Between
as Torajiro Kuruma
★8.2
MOVIE1978
Stage-Struck Tora-san
★8.2
MOVIE1975
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
as Tora
★8.0
MOVIE1968
Age of Japanese Guerrillas
MOVIE1962
A Country Boss
as Sasaki
★8.0
MOVIE1961
Aces Wild
★7.5
MOVIE1962
A Carpenter and Children
★8.7
MOVIE1979
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
as Torajiro
MOVIE1975
Friendship
MOVIE1964
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
as Kakumaru
★8.0
MOVIE1964
I'm a Bodyguard
MOVIE1963
Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
MOVIE1964
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
as Zensuke Yamashita
★7.0
MOVIE1964
The Glamorous Ghost
as Hospital Guard
★8.8
MOVIE1976
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
as Torajiro Kuruma
MOVIE1961
腰抜け女兵騒動
★8.3
MOVIE1980
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
as Tora
★8.0
MOVIE1971
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
as Torajirō Kuruma
★8.0
MOVIE1962
The Ambitious Youth
as Mitsuo Aoi
★8.4
MOVIE1973
Tora-san Loves an Artist
MOVIE1962
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
MOVIE1960
若社長と爆発娘
★6.8
MOVIE1963
Escape from Hell
as Ichibei
MOVIE1963
Okashina yatsu
as Kashô Sanyûtei
MOVIE1962
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
MOVIE1977
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
★8.0
MOVIE1967
Green Light to Joy
as Yoshitaro Hirai
★8.0
MOVIE1965
風来忍法帖
MOVIE1962
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
★6.0
MOVIE1967
Traveling in Party
★7.2
MOVIE1966
Gamblers' Luck
MOVIE1969
ひばり・橋の花と喧嘩
as 参竜斉清山
MOVIE1968
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
★10.0
MOVIE1961
Obon, The Moll Dipper
★7.0
MOVIE1966
The Song of the Bwana Toshi
as Toshi
★7.0
MOVIE1966
Our Wonderful Years
as Teiji Yoshida
MOVIE1966
The Betrayers Out!
★7.0
MOVIE1966
Izuko e
MOVIE1969
Big, Big Fellow
as Matsujiro Minamida
★7.0
MOVIE1968
In Broad Daylight
as Katsuji 'Watakatsu' Watanabe
MOVIE1962
Tōkyō sanosa musume
MOVIE1964
How to Make Money
★7.0
MOVIE1961