Spring is for cherry blossoms, and the man is Tora-san... Kiyoshi Atsumi won the "Best Actor Award" in the 1969 Tora-san series, which portrayed Tora Jiro Kuruma, a tekiya (a man who travels across the world) and a good person who was a long time ago a man of duty and human kindness. Film Competition's "Best Actor Award". Fans are delighted when Tora-san, with his square face and narrow, small eyes, gets excited, his shoulders swaying and his small eyes twinkling, and he taps his knee. I must have some of Tora-san's qualities, because I really enjoy doing this. Atsumi himself has become Tora-san by calculating his comedic performance, as if to say, "I am performing this surrealistic character from a cold point of view. Born Kurumazaka in Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo, real name Yasuo Tadokoro, age 42 = photo by Hideo Arai, Sunday Mainichi 1970 ( March 22, 1970, p. 93.