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Kiyoshi Atsumi
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…
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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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2019
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Movie 寅次郎 (存档胶片)
- 1997
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1995
Tora-san to the Rescue
Movie 寅次郎
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1994
Tora-san's Easy Advice
Movie 寅次郎
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1993
Tora-san's Matchmaker
Movie 寅次郎
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1993
A Class to Remember
Movie (cameo)
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1992
Tora-san Makes Excuses
Movie 寅次郎
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1991
Tora-san Confesses
Movie 寅次郎
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1990
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Movie 寅次郎
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1989
Tora-san, My Uncle
Movie 寅次郎
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1989
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Movie 寅次郎
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1988
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Movie 寅次郎
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1988
The Wives of Rokumeikan
Movie Narrator
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1988
Downtown Heroes
Movie
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1987
Tora-san Plays Daddy
Movie 寅次郎
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1987
Tora-san Goes North
Movie Torajiro Kuruma
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1987
Children on the Island
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1986
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Movie 寅次郎
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1986
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Movie Kihachi
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1985
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Movie 寅次郎
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1985
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Movie 寅次郎
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1984
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Movie 寅次郎
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1984
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Movie 寅次郎
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1983
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Movie 寅次郎
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1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
Movie 寅次郎
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1982
Tora-san, the Expert
Movie 寅次郎
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1982
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Movie 寅次郎
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1981
Tora-san's Promise
Movie 寅次郎
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1981
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Movie 寅次郎
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1980
Foster Daddy, Tora!
Movie 寅次郎
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1980
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
Movie 寅次郎
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1980
A Distant Cry from Spring
Movie Kondo
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1979
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Movie 寅次郎
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1979
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Movie 寅次郎
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1978
Talk of the Town Tora-san
Movie 寅次郎
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1978
August Without Emperor
Movie Kubo
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1978
Stage-Struck Tora-san
Movie 寅次郎
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1977
Tora-san Plays Cupid
Movie 寅次郎
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1977
Village of Eight Gravestones
Movie Kosuke Kindaichi
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1977
The Yellow Handkerchief
Movie Watanabe Kacho
