Actor

Kiyoshi Atsumi

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Acting credits

120

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Very extensive acting filmography.

TMDB popularity

1.1

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Movies: 119Series: 1

TMDB ID: 224666

IMDb ID: nm0040910

Known for: Acting

Born: March 10, 1928

Died: August 4, 1996

Age: 68

Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1961 - 2019

Years active: 59

Average TMDB rating: 7.37

Wikidata: Q1370742

Also known as

Yasuo Tadokoro • 寅さん • Киёси Ацуми

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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.