Actor
Kiyoshi Atsumi
Birthday: March 10, 1928
Born in: Tokyo, Japan
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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- Stage-Struck Tora-san (1978)
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- Tora-san Meets His Lordship (1977)
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- 田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ (1977)
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- Friendship (1975)
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- Women Can't Be Beaten (1969)
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- Scrap Collectors (1968)
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- The Day the Sun Rose (1968)
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- Age of Japanese Guerrillas (1968)
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- 風来忍法帖 八方破れ (1968)
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- Neon taiheiki (1968)
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- Traveling in Party (1967)
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- Ohana han (1966)
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- Gamblers' Luck (1966)
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- Izuko e (1966)
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- 風来忍法帖 (1965)
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- I'm a Bodyguard (1964)
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- How to Make Money (1964)
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- The Honest Fool (1964)
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- Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō (1963)
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- Attack Squadron (1963)
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- Nippon no obaachan (1962)
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- Snow in the South Seas (1961)
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- Aces Wild (1961)
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- 若社長と爆発娘 (1960)
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