Kiyoshi Atsumi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kiyoshi Atsumi

Japanese actor

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1928

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Date of Death: 04-Aug-1996

Profession: actor, singer, comedian, television actor, film actor

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Kiyoshi Atsumi (?? ? Atsumi Kiyoshi), born Yasuo Tadokoro (?? ?? 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.