Kiyoshi Atsumi
Birthday: 1928-03-10
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
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.
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The Yellow Handkerchief
The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning ...
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In Broad Daylight
After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindl...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
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The Man Without a Map
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, th...
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Escape from Hell
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number o...
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Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him....
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Tora-san Loves an Artist
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encount...
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mits...
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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii...
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Home from the Sea
On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to...
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A Class to Remember
A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for ad...
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Tora-san's Forget Me Not
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer....
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. ...
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches....
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown a...
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Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan sto...
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Tora-san's Runaway
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to...
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Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride....
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Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza
Tokijiro has the unfortunate duty according to the code of the gamblers to join in the fighting when...
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Tora-san's Dear Old Home
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young wom...
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Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abrupt...
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Tora-san's Love Call
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways....
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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying h...
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing ca...
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Tora-san's Lovesick
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into U...
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Children on the Island
The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops b...
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Tora-san's Lullaby
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and l...
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Tora-san, the Intellectual
Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. ...
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Tora-san's Pure Love
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his...
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Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio the...
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Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's ...
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田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
A family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of limita...
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Tora-san Plays Cupid
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by th...
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It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
This is the DVD version of the TV show, which consists of a single video that plays the first and la...
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August without Emperor
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese gove...
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Tora-san, My Uncle
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced...
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Tora-san Makes Excuses
Tora befriends a pretty barbershop owner and runs into Izumi. When Tora twists his ankle, Mitsuo com...
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The Song of the Bwana Toshi
Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world comp...
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Stage-Struck Tora-san
Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn w...
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her si...
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not last. In...
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Talk of the Town Tora-san
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on ...
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It's Tough Being a Man
Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but recon...
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Dear Mr. Prime Minister
Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very ba...
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Tora-san Confesses
When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter t...
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Charming Men
One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tun...
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Our Wonderful Years
The story of a selfless mother and her family throughout the decades, from the 1920's to the 1960's....
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Attack Squadron
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes ...
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Express Train
Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who ...
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New Year Trip
A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missin...
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Traveling in Party
A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri....
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The Glamorous Ghost
Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. ...
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Tora-san Goes North
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune)...
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Tora-san's Promise
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarra...
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Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is a...
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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully compre...
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san mee...
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vie...
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Tora-san's Island Encounter
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), run...
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly tu...
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Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another ...
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Tora-san, the Go-Between
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She ...
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Tora-san's Easy Advice
Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a f...
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Tora-san, the Expert
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a y...
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Tora-san's Song of Love
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san...
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Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that...
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Tora-san to the Rescue
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to ...
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Tora-san's Matchmaker
After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a...
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Tora-san's Love in Osaka
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to tra...
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Foster Daddy, Tora!
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to To...
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Green Light to Joy
Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to ent...
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The Day the Sun Rose
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which rava...
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The Ambitious Youth
As descendent of famed fishmonger Isshin Tasuke, young feisty Ishii Tasuke uses his talent to flouri...
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Age of Japanese Guerrillas
Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see h...
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying a...
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The Village
This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a m...
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A Distant Cry from Spring
The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival ...
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Snow in the South Seas
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits ...
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The Betrayers Out!
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge...
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A Country Boss
A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage....
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Sing, Young People!
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of the...
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Village of Eight Gravestones
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries befor...
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Downtown Heroes
The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War....
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Good Rascals
A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives....
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Where Spring Comes Late
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a min...
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Gamblers' Luck
A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of advent...
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Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th...
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Women Can't Be Beaten
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his ...
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Nippon no obaachan
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast abo...
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A Carpenter and Children
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an aff...
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The Honest Fool
Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His...
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Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu....
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My Voiceless Friends
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visi...
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The Castle of Sand
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To...
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog s...
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor
A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his ser...
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I'm a Bodyguard
Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Securi...
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Big, Big Fellow
The golden duo of Yoshitaro Mura and Kiyoshi Atsumi brings you a full-on comedy filled with laughter...
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Aces Wild
Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitima...
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Friendship
This is a story about the emotional connection between a young man with no clear purpose and a middl...
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Ohana han
This is a film adaptation of a popular NHK drama that depicts a strong-willed woman, Hana, who lives...
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Tokyo do mannaka
Set in the downtown area in the heart of Tokyo, this film depicts the lives of poor but kind-hearted...
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