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.
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.
Known For
120 titles
Our Wonderful Years
Green Light to Joy
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
Obon, The Moll Dipper
Tora-san's Matchmaker
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
Big, Big Fellow
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
Friendship
Tora-san's Easy Advice
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Neon taiheiki
Ohana han
風来忍法帖 八方破れ
Scrap Collectors
The Wives of Rokumeikan
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
Izuko e
Women Can't Be Beaten
The Song of the Bwana Toshi
Live Again Tomorrow
ひばり・橋の花と喧嘩
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