Kiyoshi Atsumi
Born March 10, 1928 (Age: 98)
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Tokyo, Japan
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.
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.
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Filmography
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
1997
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as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
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Age: 69
Tora-san's Matchmaker
1993
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as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
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Age: 65
A Class to Remember
1993
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as (cameo)
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Age: 65
Tora-san Makes Excuses
1992
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as Tora
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Age: 64
Tora-san Confesses
1991
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as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
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Age: 63
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
1990
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as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
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Age: 62
Tora-san, My Uncle
1989
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as Torajiro Kuruma
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Age: 61
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989
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as Torajiro Kuruma
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Age: 61
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
1988
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as Torajiro Kuruma
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Age: 60
Downtown Heroes
1988
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as
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Age: 60
Tora-san Plays Daddy
1987
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as Torajiro Kuruma
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Age: 59
Tora-san Goes North
1987
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as Torajiro Kuruma
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Age: 59
Children on the Island
1987
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 59
Tora-san's Island Encounter
1985
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as Torajiro Kuruma
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Age: 57
Tora-san, the Go-Between
1985
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as Torajiro Kuruma
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Age: 57
Tora-san's Promise
1981
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as Torajiro Kuruma
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Age: 53
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
1981
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as Torajiro Kuruma
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Age: 53
Foster Daddy, Tora!
1980
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as Torajiro Kuruma
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Age: 52
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
1980
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as Tora
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Age: 52
A Distant Cry from Spring
1980
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as Kondo
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Age: 52
Talk of the Town Tora-san
1978
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as Tora
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Age: 50
August Without Emperor
1978
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as Kubo
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Age: 50
Stage-Struck Tora-san
1978
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as
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Age: 50
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
1977
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as
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Age: 49
Friendship
1975
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as
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Age: 47
Tora-san's Lullaby
1974
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as Torajiro
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Age: 46
The Castle of Sand
1974
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as Movie Theater Manager
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Age: 46
Tora-san's Lovesick
1974
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as Torajiro
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Age: 46
Center of Tokyo
1974
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as Kinnosuke
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Age: 46
Tora-san Loves an Artist
1973
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as
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Age: 45
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
1973
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as Torajiro Kuruma
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Age: 44
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
1972
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as Torajiro Kuruma
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Age: 44
Home from the Sea
1972
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as Matsushita
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Age: 44
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
1972
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as Torajiro Kuruma
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Age: 44
My Voiceless Friends
1972
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as Tamiji Nishiyama
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Age: 44
Charming Men
1970
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as Okera Goro
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Age: 42
Live Again Tomorrow
1970
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as 木村
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Age: 42
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
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as Cook #1 (uncredited)
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Age: 41
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
1969
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as Torajiro Kuruma
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Age: 41
Women Can't Be Beaten
1969
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as
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Age: 41
Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
1969
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as Torajirô Kuruma
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Age: 41
ひばり・橋の花と喧嘩
1969
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as 参竜斉清山
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Age: 41
Big, Big Fellow
1969
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as Matsujiro Minamida
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Age: 41
Scrap Collectors
1968
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as
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Age: 40
In Broad Daylight
1968
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as Katsuji 'Watakatsu' Watanabe
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Age: 40
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
1968
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as
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Age: 40
Age of Japanese Guerrillas
1968
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as
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Age: 40
風来忍法帖 八方破れ
1968
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as
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Age: 40
Neon taiheiki
1968
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Age: 40
New Year Trip
1968
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as
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Age: 39
Ohana han
1966
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Age: 38
Izuko e
1966
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Age: 38
The Song of the Bwana Toshi
1965
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as Toshi
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Age: 37
風来忍法帖
1965
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Age: 37
The Glamorous Ghost
1964
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as Hospital Guard
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Age: 36
I'm a Bodyguard
1964
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Age: 36
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
1964
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as Kakumaru
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Age: 36
How to Make Money
1964
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Age: 35
The Honest Fool
1964
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as
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Age: 35
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
1964
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as Zensuke Yamashita
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Age: 35
Okashina yatsu
1963
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as Kashô Sanyûtei
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Age: 35
Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
1963
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Age: 35
To Your Majesty, The Emperor
1963
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as
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Age: 35
Escape from Hell
1963
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as Ichibei
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Age: 34
Sing, Young People!
1963
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as Driver
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Age: 34
Attack Squadron
1963
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Age: 34
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
1962
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Age: 34
Tōkyō sanosa musume
1962
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Age: 34
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
1962
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Age: 34
A Carpenter and Children
1962
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as
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Age: 34
The Ambitious Youth
1962
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as Mitsuo Aoi
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Age: 34
A Country Boss
1962
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as Sasaki
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Age: 33
Good Rascals
1962
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as Ushi
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Age: 33
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
1962
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Age: 33
Nippon no obaachan
1962
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Age: 33
Snow in the South Seas
1961
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Age: 33
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
1961
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Age: 33
Red Flowers of Hell
1961
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Age: 33
Obon, The Moll Dipper
1961
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Age: 33
腰抜け女兵騒動
1961
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Age: 32
Aces Wild
1961
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Age: 32
No Image
若社長と爆発娘
1960
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Age: 31