Ken Shimura Biography Wiki Wife Family Age Net Worth

March 30, 2020

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Ken Shimura Height Weight Bra Size Age Biography Family Wiki Net Worth, Affairs, Marriage & much more. Ken Shimura (志村けん, Shimura Ken) (born Yasunori Shimura (志村康徳, Shimura Yasunori), February 20, 1950 – March 29, 2020) was a Japanese comedian. He co-starred with Masashi Tashiro, Nobuyoshi Kuwano in the Japanese variety show Shimura Ken no Bakatono-sama. The “bakatono-sama” shtick by Shimura is unusual among Japanese comedians, in that he could satirize the deeds of current guardians of the contemporary society (a company president, a politician, a family head, a school principal, the head of a Japanese yakuza gang) under the garb of a foolish king who lived in the country a long time ago. Another popular shtick of Shimura in the same show was “Henna Oji-san” who entertained himself in the company of nubile girls. After being caught for his pranks, the character regularly ended the shtick with a song ‘Sou desu. Watashi wa Henna Oji-san desu’.

Shimura was most famous for starring in Hachiji Da Yo! Zen’in Shugo! with the comedy group The Drifters and Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan with Cha Kato, another former member of The Drifters.

Illness and death

On March 23, 2020, it was confirmed that he had a COVID-19 infection after he has been hospitalized for severe pneumonia since March 20. He was first Japanese tarento to be diagnosed with COVID-19. On March 24, he was transferred to another hospital where ECMO was available. He had been scheduled to star in Kinema no kamisama when he would star as leading actor for the first time, but Izawa Office (イザワオフィス), the entertainment office he belongs to, and Shochiku announced that they declined his starring in the movie on March 26.