Kiyoshi Atsumi
Known For
Acting
Born
1928-03-10 in Tokyo, Japan
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.
Most Known For
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Cook #1 (uncredited)
It's Tough Being a Man
おれの義姉さん
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
Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
as Torajirô Kuruma
Attack Squadron
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
as Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
as Tora-san (archive footage)
Tora-san, My Uncle
as Torajiro Kuruma
The Man Without a Map
as Tashiro
Village of Eight Gravestones
as Kosuke Kindaichi
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
as Kuruma Torajiro
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
as Kihachi
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
as Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
as Torajiro Kuruma
Talk of the Town Tora-san
as Tora