Kiyoshi Atsumi
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.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Cook #1 (uncredited)In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant...
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Tora-san's Forget Me Not
as Torajiro KurumaOn the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
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The Castle of Sand
as Movie Theater ManagerTwo detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in...
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Tora-san Goes North
as Torajiro KurumaWhen his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian...
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A Distant Cry from Spring
as KondoThe quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the...
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The Yellow Handkerchief
as Watanabe KachoThe story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about...
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
as Torajirô KurumaTorajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his...
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Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
as Tora-sanThe 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the...
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Tora-san's Runaway
as Torajiro KurumaAfter an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro...
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
as Torajiro KurumaTraveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
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Tora-san's Love Call
as Torajiro KurumaTaking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
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It's Tough Being a Man
as Torajirô KurumaTora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but...
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Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
as Torajirō KurumaAfter a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.
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Tora-san, the Intellectual
as TorajiroTora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years...
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August without Emperor
as KuboTaking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese...
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Talk of the Town Tora-san
as ToraAfter a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect...
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A Class to Remember
as (cameo)A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood...
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The Village
as uncreditedThis appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on...
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Foster Daddy, Tora!
as Torajiro KurumaAfter a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her...
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Tora-san's Promise
as Torajiro KurumaTora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he...
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Attack Squadron
as uncreditedLt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He...
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
as ToraTora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her...
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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
as Torajiro KurumaAfter winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to...
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Hope and Pain
as uncreditedThe adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.
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Tora-san's Song of Love
as Torajiro KurumaTora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's...
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In Broad Daylight
as Katsuji 'Watakatsu' WatanabeAfter his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old...
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Tora-san's Dream of Spring
as Kuruma TorajiroTora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan...
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Tora-san's Cherished Mother
as Torajiro KurumaKuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
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Tora-san's Pure Love
as TorajiroWhen Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on...
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
as Torajiro KurumaIn Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san...
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Dear Mr. Prime Minister
as KakumaruKakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a...
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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
as Torajiro KurumaWhen Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor...
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Escape from Hell
as IchibeiThis suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a...
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風来忍法帖
as uncreditedThe first of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.
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Village of Eight Gravestones
as Kosuke KindaichiThe heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries...
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Tora-san, the Expert
as Torajiro KurumaTora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets...
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Stage-Struck Tora-san
as uncreditedTora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an...
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Tora-san's Lullaby
as TorajiroAfter Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved...
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The Man Without a Map
as TashiroA private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is...
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Where Spring Comes Late
as TravelerThe story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a...
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Home from the Sea
as MatsushitaOn a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting...
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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
as Torajiro KurumaDuring his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully...
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Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
as Torajiro KurumaDuring his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers...
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Tora-san's Dear Old Home
as Torajiro KurumaWhile Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young...
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Tora-san Confesses
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a...
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The Song of the Bwana Toshi
as ToshiTraveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world...
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Snow in the South Seas
as uncreditedJapanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their...
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Charming Men
as Okera GoroOne day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea...
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever
as uncreditedWhen cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by...
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Tora-san's Forbidden Love
as Torajiro KurumaTora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who...
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Tora-san, My Uncle
as Torajiro KurumaTora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents...
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Tora-san's Love in Osaka
as Torajiro KurumaWhen his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to...
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
as Torajiro KurumaA playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy...
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Tora-san Makes Excuses
as uncreditedTora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi...
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It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
as uncreditedThis is the DVD version of the TV show, which consists of a single video that plays the first...
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Tora-san Plays Cupid
as TorajirōTora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes...
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Tora-san Takes a Vacation
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for...
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Tora-san's Matchmaker
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush...
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Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
as KihachiDirector Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio...
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Tora-san's Island Encounter
as Torajiro KurumaTora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984),...
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Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
as Torajiro KurumaIn his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he...
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Tora-san Loves an Artist
as uncreditedTora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he...
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Green Light to Joy
as Yoshitaro HiraiDrama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to...
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A Carpenter and Children
as uncreditedA carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an...
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Tora-san, the Go-Between
as Torajiro KurumaIn Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself....
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Express Train
as uncreditedAtsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor...
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My Voiceless Friends
as Tamiji NishiyamaA man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country...
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Children on the Island
as Narrator (voice)The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that...
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Tora-san to the Rescue
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged...
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Tora-san's Lovesick
as TorajiroAfter Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs...
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Traveling in Party
as uncreditedA comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.
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風来忍法帖 八方破れ
as uncreditedThe second of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.
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Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
as uncreditedAdventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu.
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Kutsukake Tokijiro: The Lonely Yakuza
as Minobu no AsakichiTokijiro has the unfortunate duty according to the code of the gamblers to join in the fighting...
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Nippon no obaachan
as uncreditedTwo obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast...
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New Year Trip
as uncreditedA comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her...
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While...
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
as Kuruma TorajiroTora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late...
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
as Torajiro KurumaDuring his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to...
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Sing, Young People
as DriverA story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of...
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Obon, The Moll Dipper
as uncreditedModern comedy, based on the popular manga.
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The Ambitious Youth
as Mitsuo AoiAs descendent of famed fishmonger Isshin Tasuke, young feisty Ishii Tasuke uses his talent to...
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Tora-san, the Matchmaker
as TorajiroTora-san helps out a runaway bride.
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Tora-san Meets His Lordship
as uncreditedTora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased...
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Tora-san's Easy Advice
as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to...
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
as Torajiro KurumaTora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account,...
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
as uncreditedHe was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not...
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A Country Boss
as SasakiA country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.
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Our Wonderful Years
as Teiji YoshidaThe story of a selfless mother and her family throughout the decades, from th 1920's to the 1960's.
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田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
as uncreditedA family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of...
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Gamblers' Luck
as uncreditedA group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of...
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The Glamorous Ghost
as Hospital GuardBased on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black...
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
as Zensuke YamashitaBased on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military...
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The Betrayers Out!
as uncreditedShochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on...
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The Honest Fool
as uncreditedYasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law....
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor
as uncreditedA conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his...
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Good Rascals
as UshiA group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.
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Women Can't Be Beaten
as uncreditedAn uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving...
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Age of Japanese Guerrillas
as uncreditedKinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to...
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I'm a Bodyguard
as uncreditedKita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's...
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It's Tough Being a Man
as uncreditedThe original TV Drama series the famous Tora film series was based on.
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