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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 10, 1928
Died
August 4, 1996
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Also Known As
- Yasuo Tadokoro
- 寅さん
- Киёси Ацуми
Kiyoshi Atsumi
0.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
8.0
Tora-san
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
2019
8.0
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
1997
7.3
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san to the Rescue
1995
8.0
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san's Easy Advice
1994
8.5
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san's Matchmaker
1993
7.5
(cameo)
A Class to Remember
1993
8.0
Tora
Tora-san Makes Excuses
1992
8.0
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san Confesses
1991
8.0
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
1990
8.7
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san, My Uncle
1989
Credits
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
as Tora-san
2019
8.0
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1997
8.0
Tora-san to the Rescue
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1995
7.3
Tora-san's Easy Advice
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1994
8.0
Tora-san's Matchmaker
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1993
8.5
A Class to Remember
as (cameo)
1993
7.5
Tora-san Makes Excuses
as Tora
1992
8.0
Tora-san Confesses
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1991
8.0
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
1990
8.0
Tora-san, My Uncle
as Torajiro Kuruma
1989
8.7
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
as Torajiro Kuruma
1989
8.0
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
as Torajiro Kuruma
1988
8.5
Downtown Heroes
1988
8.4
Tora-san Plays Daddy
as Torajiro Kuruma
1987
9.0
Tora-san Goes North
as Torajiro Kuruma
1987
8.7
Children on the Island
as Narrator (voice)
1987
0.0
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
as Torajiro Kuruma
1986
7.5
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
as Kihachi
1986
6.1
Tora-san's Island Encounter
as Torajiro Kuruma
1985
8.0
Tora-san, the Go-Between
as Torajiro Kuruma
1985
6.5
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
as Torajiro Kuruma
1984
8.0
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
as Torajiro Kuruma
1984
8.0
Tora-san Goes Religious?
as Kuruma Torajiro
1983
8.0
Tora-san's Song of Love
as Torajiro Kuruma
1983
8.0
Tora-san, the Expert
as Torajiro Kuruma
1982
8.5
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
as Torajiro Kuruma
1982
8.0
Tora-san's Promise
as Torajiro Kuruma
1981
8.0
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
as Torajiro Kuruma
1981
8.5
Foster Daddy, Tora!
as Torajiro Kuruma
1980
7.5
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
as Tora
1980
8.0
A Distant Cry from Spring
as Kondo
1980
7.3
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
as Kuruma Torajiro
1979
8.0
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
as Torajiro
1979
8.5
Talk of the Town Tora-san
as Tora
1978
9.0
August without Emperor
as Kubo
1978
7.0
Stage-Struck Tora-san
1978
8.0
Tora-san Plays Cupid
as Torajirō
1977
7.7
Village of Eight Gravestones
as Kosuke Kindaichi
1977
6.7
The Yellow Handkerchief
as Watanabe Kacho
1977
6.9
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
1977
8.5
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
1977
0.0
Tora-san's Pure Love
as Torajiro
1976
8.5
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
as Torajiro Kuruma
1976
9.0
Tora-san, the Intellectual
as Torajiro
1975
7.7
Friendship
1975
0.0
The Village
1975
7.0
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
as Tora
1975
8.0
Tora-san's Lullaby
as Torajiro
1974
7.5
The Castle of Sand
as Movie Theater Manager
1974
7.3
Tora-san's Lovesick
as Torajiro
1974
7.3
Tokyo do mannaka
as Kinnosuke
1974
0.0
Tora-san Loves an Artist
1973
8.0
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
as Torajiro Kuruma
1973
8.0
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
as Torajiro Kuruma
1972
7.6
Home from the Sea
as Matsushita
1972
7.3
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
as Torajiro Kuruma
1972
7.5
My Voiceless Friends
as Tamiji Nishiyama
1972
0.0
Tora-san's Love Call
as Torajiro Kuruma
1971
8.0
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
as Torajirō Kuruma
1971
7.8
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
as Torajirô Kuruma
1971
7.2
Where Spring Comes Late
as Traveler
1970
7.6
Tora-san's Runaway
as Torajiro Kuruma
1970
7.8
Charming Men
as Okera Goro
1970
0.0
明日また生きる
as 木村
1970
0.0
🎬
おれの義姉さん
1970
0.0
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
as Torajiro Kuruma
1970
7.4
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Cook #1 (uncredited)
1970
7.1
Tora-san, His Tender Love
as Torajiro Kuruma
1970
7.0
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
as Torajiro Kuruma
1969
6.8
Women Can't Be Beaten
1969
0.0
It's Tough Being a Man
as Torajirô Kuruma
1969
8.1
ひばり・橋の花と喧嘩
as 参竜斉清山
1969
0.0
Big, Big Fellow
as Matsujiro Minamida
1969
0.0
Scrap Collectors
1968
0.0
🎬
The Day the Sun Rose
1968
7.0
In Broad Daylight
as Katsuji 'Watakatsu' Watanabe
1968
0.0
It's Tough Being a Man
1968
0.0
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
1968
0.0
Age of Japanese Guerrillas
1968
0.0
The Man Without a Map
as Tashiro
1968
6.6
風来忍法帖 八方破れ
1968
0.0
Neon taiheiki
1968
0.0
New Year Trip
1968
0.0
Green Light to Joy
as Yoshitaro Hirai
1967
0.0
Traveling in Party
1967
6.0
Express Train
1967
6.0
Our Wonderful Years
as Teiji Yoshida
1966
0.0
Ohana han
1966
0.0
Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza
as Minobu no Asakichi
1966
6.6
Gamblers' Luck
1966
7.0
Izuko e
1966
0.0
The Betrayers Out!
1966
0.0
The Song of the Bwana Toshi
as Toshi
1965
0.0
風来忍法帖
1965
0.0
The Glamorous Ghost
as Hospital Guard
1964
6.0
I'm a Bodyguard
1964
0.0
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
as Kakumaru
1964
0.0
How to Make Money
1964
0.0
The Honest Fool
1964
0.0
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
as Zensuke Yamashita
1964
0.0
Okashina yatsu
as Kashô Sanyûtei
1963
0.0
Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
1963
0.0
To Your Majesty, The Emperor
1963
0.0
Escape from Hell
as Ichibei
1963
6.2
Sing, Young People!
as Driver
1963
5.8
Attack Squadron
1963
6.0
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
1962
0.0
Tōkyō sanosa musume
1962
0.0
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
1962
0.0
A Carpenter and Children
1962
0.0
The Ambitious Youth
as Mitsuo Aoi
1962
0.0
A Country Boss
as Sasaki
1962
0.0
Good Rascals
as Ushi
1962
6.0
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
1962
0.0
Nippon no obaachan
1962
0.0
Snow in the South Seas
1961
0.0
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
1961
0.0
Red Flowers of Hell
1961
0.0
Obon, The Moll Dipper
1961
0.0
腰抜け女兵騒動
1961
0.0
Aces Wild
1961
0.0
🎬
若社長と爆発娘
1960
0.0