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.
Movies
The Yellow Handkerchief
Watanabe Kacho
The Man Without a Map
Tashiro
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Torajiro
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Loves an Artist
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Torajiro Kuruma
Home from the Sea
Matsushita
A Class to Remember
(cameo)
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Kuruma Torajiro
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Kuruma Torajiro
Tora-san's Runaway
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Torajirô Kuruma
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Torajirō Kuruma
Tora-san's Love Call
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Lovesick
Torajiro
Tora-san's Lullaby
Torajiro
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Tora
New Year Trip
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Torajiro
Tora-san's Pure Love
Torajiro
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Kihachi
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Tora-san Plays Cupid
Torajirō
August without Emperor
Kubo
Tora-san Makes Excuses
The Song of the Bwana Toshi
Toshi
Stage-Struck Tora-san
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
Talk of the Town Tora-san
Tora
It's Tough Being a Man
Torajirô Kuruma
Our Wonderful Years
Teiji Yoshida
Express Train
Traveling in Party
The Glamorous Ghost
Hospital Guard
若社長と爆発娘
Tora-san Goes North
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Plays Daddy
Torajiro Kuruma
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Torajiro Kuruma
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san to the Rescue
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san's Promise
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san Confesses
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Foster Daddy, Tora!
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san, My Uncle
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san, the Expert
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Song of Love
Torajiro Kuruma
Tora-san's Matchmaker
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Tora-san's Easy Advice
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
風来忍法帖 八方破れ
風来忍法帖
Green Light to Joy
Yoshitaro Hirai
Kutsukake Tokijiro: The Lonely Yakuza
Minobu no Asakichi
The Day the Sun Rose
The Ambitious Youth
Mitsuo Aoi
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
The Village
A Distant Cry from Spring
Kondo
Snow in the South Seas
The Betrayers Out!
Sing, Young People
Driver
A Country Boss
Sasaki
Village of Eight Gravestones
Kosuke Kindaichi
How to Make Money
Hope and Pain
Scrap Collectors
Good Rascals
Ushi
Obon, The Moll Dipper
Where Spring Comes Late
Traveler
Gamblers' Luck
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Tora-san
Women Can't Be Beaten
Nippon no obaachan
A Carpenter and Children
The Honest Fool
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
My Voiceless Friends
Tamiji Nishiyama
The Castle of Sand
Movie Theater Manager
Zoku Haikei Tenno Heika Sama
Zensuke Yamashita
To Your Majesty, The Emperor
Neon taiheiki
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Cook #1 (uncredited)
Escape from Hell
Ichibei
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
In Broad Daylight
Katsuji 'Watakatsu' Watanabe
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
Okashina yatsu
Kashô Sanyûtei
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
Children on the Island
Narrator (voice)
Tōkyō sanosa musume
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
Charming Men
Okera Goro
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
Kakumaru
Attack Squadron
Shows
It's Tough Being a Man