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Kiyoshi Atsumi

1928 - 1996

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Kiyoshi Atsumi (Japanese: 渥美 清, Hepburn: Atsumi Kiyoshi), born Yasuo Tadokoro (田所 康雄, Tadokoro Yasuo; 10 March 1928 – 4 August 1996), was a Japanese actor. He is best known for portraying Tora-san in the Japanese comedy film series Otoko wa Tsurai yo, a role he played 48 times over 26 years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kiyoshi Atsumi is the 3,666th most popular actor (down from 3,009th in 2019), the 1,135th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,001st in 2019) and the 48th most popular Japanese Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Kiyoshi Atsumi ranks 3,666 out of 13,578. Before him are Reginald Owen, Robert Z'Dar, Selma Blair, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Julian McMahon, and Lupu Pick. After him are Jason Patric, Rekha, Corinne Marchand, Barbie Hsu, Riccardo Cucciolla, and Albert Bassermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Kiyoshi Atsumi ranks 342. Before him are Bob Crane, Frank Rosenblatt, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Stanley Baker, André Schwarz-Bart, and Sergey Kapitsa. After him are Elina Bystritskaya, Jaime Sin, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Dušan Džamonja, Leonid Bronevoy, and Eydie Gormé. Among people deceased in 1996, Kiyoshi Atsumi ranks 186. Before him are Yahya Ayyash, Og Mandino, Yulii Khariton, Jurandir de Freitas, Lew Ayres, and Léo Malet. After him are José Lázaro Robles, Kenneth Bainbridge, François Picard, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, and Johan Kraag.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kiyoshi Atsumi ranks 1,135 out of 6,245. Before him are Susumu Hirasawa (1954), Minoru Chiaki (1917), Ikuo Matsumoto (1941), Yoshiro Nakamatsu (1928), Mutsuhiro Watanabe (1918), and Shinichi Hoshi (1926). After him are Masato Kudo (1990), Sumio Iijima (1939), Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859), Yasuji Miyazaki (1916), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), and Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi (1902).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Kiyoshi Atsumi ranks 48. Before him are Chishū Ryū (1904), Haruo Nakajima (1929), Yūsaku Matsuda (1949), Norio Wakamoto (1945), Akira Terao (1947), and Minoru Chiaki (1917). After him are Kazuhiko Inoue (1954), Akira Kamiya (1946), Ayako Wakao (1933), Toshio Furukawa (1946), Tsuru Aoki (1892), and Megumi Hayashibara (1967).

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