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Kiyoshi Atsumi

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Kiyoshi Atsumi

Mar 10, 1928 – Aug 4, 1996123 titles 121 movies · 2 TV
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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.

Also known as

Yasuo Tadokoro · 寅さん · Киёси Ацуми

Born

Mar 10, 1928 – Aug 4, 1996

Tokyo, Japan

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

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Career timeline

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1960 1 title(s)

1961 6 title(s)

1962 9 title(s)

1963 6 title(s)

1964 6 title(s)

1965 1 title(s)

1966 7 title(s)

1967 3 title(s)

1968 10 title(s)

1969 5 title(s)

1970 8 title(s)

1971 3 title(s)

1972 4 title(s)

1973 2 title(s)

1974 4 title(s)

1975 4 title(s)

1976 2 title(s)

1977 5 title(s)

1978 3 title(s)

1979 2 title(s)

1980 3 title(s)

1981 2 title(s)

1982 2 title(s)

1983 2 title(s)

1984 2 title(s)

1985 2 title(s)

1986 2 title(s)

1987 3 title(s)

1988 3 title(s)

1989 2 title(s)

1990 1 title(s)

1991 1 title(s)

1992 1 title(s)

1993 2 title(s)

1994 1 title(s)

1995 1 title(s)

1997 1 title(s)

2019 1 title(s)