Tamori
Kazuyoshi Morita, known by his stage name Tamori, is a Japanese television celebrity. Known for his trademark dark sunglasses, Tamori is one of the "big three" television comedians in Japan along with Takeshi Kitano (a.k.a. Beat Takeshi) and Sanma Akashiya. For more than 30 years he hosted Waratte Iitomo! ("It's OK to laugh!"), a nationally televised live show broadcast every weekday at noon from October 1982 until March 2014. His likeness is the basis for the Piranha Plant in All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.
Known for
- SMAP×SMAP (1996)
- Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen (1990)
- Tales of the Bizarre (1990)
- Bura Tamori (2009)
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2014 Fall Special (2014)
- Hero (2007)
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2017 Fall Special (2017)
- Tamori Club (1982)
- A Pool Without Water (1982)
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Spring Special (2003)
- Hakatakko Pure Heart (1978)
- Music Station (1986)
- Kyoko Aizome's Widow Boarding House (1984)
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Summer Special (2023)
- Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special – Autumn Special (2025)
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2002 Spring Special (2002)
- Tales of the Bizarre: Vol. 3 (1991)
- Boro the Caterpillar (2018)
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2011 Fall Special (2011)
- Tales of the Bizarre: 2026 Summer Special (2026)