
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.
118
Films
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TV Shows
Known For
119 Credits
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Cook #1 (uncredited)
1970

It's Tough Being a Man
1968

The Castle of Sand
as Movie Theater Manager
1974

The Yellow Handkerchief
as Watanabe Kacho
1977

August Without Emperor
as Kubo
1978

The Man Without a Map
as Tashiro
1968

Attack Squadron
1963

Village of Eight Gravestones
as Kosuke Kindaichi
1977

A Distant Cry from Spring
as Kondo
1980

Tora-san, the Expert
as Torajiro Kuruma
1982

Where Spring Comes Late
as Traveler
1970

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
as Kihachi
1986