Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san, Wish You Were Here (2019)

The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo, Tora-san's nephew, who runs into Izumi, his first love, whom he had once promised to marry. The familiar faces ...

Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version (1997)

Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san. ...

Tora-san to the Rescue (1995)

Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo's girlfriend who is engaged to someone else. ...

Tora-san's Easy Advice (1994)

Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a friend's sister. Tora-san meanwhile helps an injured housewife on her yearly vacation. ...

Tora-san's Matchmaker (1993)

After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring Mitsuo back home, himself falls in love with an attractive but troubled woman visiting her father. ...

A Class to Remember (1993)

A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society. ...

Tora-san Makes Excuses (1992)

Tora befriends a pretty barbershop owner and runs into Izumi. When Tora twists his ankle, Mitsuo comes to care for him and see Izumi. Meanwhile, Izumi must choose between her new job in Tokyo and returning to Nagoya to care for her mother. ...

Tora-san Confesses (1991)

When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But Izumi unexpectedly meets Tora-san. ...

Tora-san Takes a Vacation (1990)

Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi's sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront him in Oita. Meanwhile, Izumi's mother befriends Tora-san and together they travel to Oita to meet them, with Tor ...

Tora-san, My Uncle (1989)

Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo. ...

Tora-san Goes to Vienna (1989)

During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan. ...

Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial (1988)

In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship. ...

Downtown Heroes (1988)

The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War. ...

Tora-san Plays Daddy (1987)

A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san's dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy's mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as "daddy". ...

Tora-san Goes North (1987)

When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested. ...

Children on the Island (1987)

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils. ...

Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy (1986)

During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist. ...

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies (1986)

Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. After the studio's top leading lady is embroiled in a scandal, Koharu is suddenly thrust into the limelight wh ...

Tora-san's Island Encounter (1985)

Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in work. Tora-san follows her to Shikinejima, and attempts to bring her back to her home. In doing so he enc ...

Tora-san, the Go-Between (1985)

In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman's health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-san fa ...

Tora-san's Forbidden Love (1984)

Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san to help find him, he falls in love with her, and secretly hopes the husband will not be found. ...

Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984)

In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attrac ...

Tora-san Goes Religious? (1983)

Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise. Thinking h ...

Tora-san's Song of Love (1983)

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets ...

Tora-san, the Expert (1982)

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo. ...

Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san (1982)

During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living National Treasure ceramist. At his home, Tora-san makes a good impression on the old man's maid, who apparentl ...

Tora-san's Promise (1981)

Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all his ex-classmates, he resumes his travels. In Kyushu he meets an outspoken 18-year-old girl who becomes enam ...

Tora-san's Love in Osaka (1981)

When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his family that he plans to marry her. His plans are foiled when the geisha informs Tora-san that she is engaged. ...

Foster Daddy, Tora! (1980)

After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam. ...

Tora-san's Tropical Fever (1980)

When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side. ...

A Distant Cry from Spring (1980)

The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the autumn ...

Tora-san's Dream of Spring (1979)

Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata. ...

Tora-san, the Matchmaker (1979)

Tora-san helps out a runaway bride. ...

Talk of the Town Tora-san (1978)

After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when a beautiful lady starts working at Toraya. ...

August Without Emperor (1978)

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is ...

Stage-Struck Tora-san (1978)

Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up to Tora-san. ...

Tora-san Plays Cupid (1977)

Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with a young waitress. ...

Village of Eight Gravestones (1977)

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. ...

The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)

A convict, newly released from prison for murder, joins two strangers on a road trip through Hokkaido to visit his ex-wife, whom he hasn't seen in four years, knowing that if she puts a yellow handkerchief on the window, it would mean that she wants him ba ...

Tora-san Meets His Lordship (1977)

Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo. ...

Tora-san's Pure Love (1976)

When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother. ...

Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset (1976)

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surpri ...

Tora-san, the Intellectual (1975)

Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to study, he falls for Toraya's new tenant instead. ...

The Village (1975)

This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and, being that they are farmers and always busy and not rich, question the wisdom and feasibility of such an id ...

Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again (1975)

Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora-san. ...

Tora-san's Lullaby (1974)

After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again. During his travels, Torajiro meets a father who shares a drink with him. In the morning, Torajiro is sho ...

The Castle of Sand (1974)

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard. ...

Tora-san's Lovesick (1974)

After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now a widow. ...

Tora-san Loves an Artist (1973)

Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling for his artist sister. ...

Tora-san's Forget Me Not (1973)

On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer. ...

Tora-san's Dream-Come-True (1972)

When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals for the affection of Chiyo. ...

Home from the Sea (1972)

On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. They cherish the deepest affection for this piece of land they call home, and the simple life they lead. But rapid industrial g ...

Tora-san's Dear Old Home (1972)

While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels. ...

My Voiceless Friends (1972)

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families. ...

Tora-san's Love Call (1971)

Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways. ...

Tora-san, the Good Samaritan (1971)

After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride. ...

Tora-san's Shattered Romance (1971)

Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his sister Sakura. Meanwhile, a new tenant moves into Toraya restaurant. ...

Where Spring Comes Late (1970)

The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film's main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan a ...

Tora-san's Runaway (1970)

After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job. ...

Charming Men (1970)

One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko Baisho) also returns from the juvenile classification center on the same day. However, at a welcome party he ...

Tora-san's Grand Scheme (1970)

After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya. ...

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Amer ...

Tora-san, His Tender Love (1970)

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches. ...

Tora-san's Cherished Mother (1969)

Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him. ...

Women Can't Be Beaten (1969)

An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother. ...

Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp (1969)

Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting. ...

Scrap Collectors (1968)

Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka. ...

The Day the Sun Rose (1968)

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in ...

In Broad Daylight (1968)

After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindler buddies. However, one by one, his friends start getting caught. Katsuji decides to play a high stakes game of robbing the proceeds of a department store. ...

It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition) (1968)

This is the DVD version of the TV show, which consists of a single video that plays the first and last episodes of the tv show bridged by an edit recapping the major events of the lost middle episodes. ...

Age of Japanese Guerrillas (1968)

Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see his girlfriend Yukiko but gets picked up for vagrancy in Shinjuku and thrown in jail. Helped by a yakuza and a prostitute, he goes on a search for Yukiko but ...

The Man Without a Map (1968)

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching. ...

Neon taiheiki (1968)

New Year Trip (1968)

A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missing brother. ...

Green Light to Joy (1967)

Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college. ...

Traveling in Party (1967)

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri. ...

Express Train (1967)

Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who dedicates himself in providing quality service to his passengers. With his many years of experience, he never fails to find solutions for any troubles that ...

Our Wonderful Years (1966)

The story of a selfless mother and her family throughout the decades, from the 1920's to the 1960's. ...

Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza (1966)

Tokijiro has the unfortunate duty according to the code of the gamblers to join in the fighting when afforded a night's stay and meals at the home of a town boss. Though he dislikes killing, the strength of his swordsmanship will be tested time and time ag ...

Gamblers' Luck (1966)

A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assi ...

The Song of the Bwana Toshi (1966)

Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows. His interaction with the Africans he meets reveals to him that he has been living a lie, and that he is not the man he thoug ...

The Betrayers Out! (1966)

Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy ...

The Glamorous Ghost (1964)

Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife, then embarks on a crusade to extort all the wealthy men whom she had affairs with. ...

I'm a Bodyguard (1964)

Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a writer living in the area while working at a police box. His dream is to become a bodyguard (BG) for the Pr ...

Dear Mr. Prime Minister (1964)

Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very bad manners. Moulin, Kakumaru's former partner, gained popularity through her comedy routine with his wife Rouge, and in contrast to Kakumaru, she became a po ...

How to Make Money (1964)

Japanese comedy film. ...

The Honest Fool (1964)

Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His does not declare his love because she is married, but he goes on a mission to please her, and is blinded. Then her husband dies and she remarries before Ya ...

To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2 (1964)

Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent overseas to China as a part of the military dog unit. He's ridiculed by others due to his inability to advance. ...

Okashina yatsu (1963)

Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō (1963)

1963 Japanese movie ...

To Your Majesty, The Emperor (1963)

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up. ...

Escape from Hell (1963)

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform forced labor. Living conditions on the island are terrible and the men soon become rebellious. Based on a ...

Sing, Young People! (1963)

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star. ...

Attack Squadron (1963)

Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain momentum in the war is for the air force to gather its most brilliant pilots into an elite squadron and us ...

Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Tōkyō sanosa musume (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Ottamage ningyo monogatari (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

A Carpenter and Children (1962)

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning combination of drama and humor. The warm friendship that grows between the carpenter, the woman and the childr ...

The Ambitious Youth (1962)

As descendent of famed fishmonger Isshin Tasuke, young feisty Ishii Tasuke uses his talent to flourish his employer's food business. ...

A Country Boss (1962)

A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage. ...

Good Rascals (1962)

A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives. ...

Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido (1962)

Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu. ...

Nippon no obaachan (1962)

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With n ...

Snow in the South Seas (1961)

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions. ...

Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region (1961)

He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not last. In his uncle, Uzaemon in Kawashima, Yoshiji Akaji, Yoshimoto's lender, and Kanehira Akagi, the older brother of the former loan of Mishima, played a challenge ...

Red Flowers of Hell (1961)

1961 gangster film. ...

Obon, The Moll Dipper (1961)

Modern comedy, based on the popular manga. ...

Aces Wild (1961)

Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother of the Otorigumi, returned from South America for the first time in 15 years. When he stepped on the soil o ...