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 stripshow 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 TennoHeikaSama in 1963 established his reputation as an actor Later he became the star of the highly popular Torasan series of films from the original Otoko wa Tsurai yo translated in English as Its 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 Torasan character and many Japanese regarded his death as the death of Torasan not the death of Yasuo Tadokoro or Kiyoshi Atsumi
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