Text/Wen Shi Wangwang
Ken Shimura was the pioneer of Japanese short comedy, and he single-handedly ushered in an era of Japanese sketches that influenced generations of Japanese people. He uses exaggerated expressions, rich body language to interpret a small thing into a joke, wonderful, he is not only very popular in Japan, there are many fans abroad, many video websites in China also have his comedy videos, such as watermelon video also has a lot of his short videos. Ken Shimura enjoys a high status among Japanese funny artists, and the income is very high, even higher than that of many japanese big-name celebrities.
However, such an artist who has brought laughter to countless people has reported on March 29 that Ken Shimura died of COVID-19 at the age of 70. It is said that he was diagnosed on March 23, and then hospitalized, becoming the first artist in Japan to be diagnosed with new crown pneumonia, and now he is the first artist in Japan to die of new crown pneumonia. Ken Shimura's comedy is exaggerated and funny, his own amorous, debauched personality, no marriage in his life, no children, the game of humanity after the sudden departure, today we will take stock of the japanese comedy king's comedy life.
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Ken Shimura was born on February 20, 1950 in Higashiyama Village, Tokyo, where he was the third oldest in the family and had two older brothers. His father, Kenji Shimura, was an elementary school teacher, and like many traditional Japanese fathers, he was a non-smiling type, and the atmosphere at home was always more depressing.
Later, Kenji Shimura had a traffic accident on a motorcycle, and then he developed amnesia one after another, and the atmosphere at home became more depressed. However, at that time, Japan had begun to popularize television, and his father only smiled when he watched funny shows on television, and the oppressive atmosphere at home was slightly alleviated. Therefore, Shimura Ken especially cherished the joyful atmosphere, so after graduating from high school, he did not continue to study like his two brothers to enter the civil service examination, but learned from the funny artist and embarked on the road of quyi.
Before graduating from high school, Ken Shimura wanted to learn from the funny entertainer Nagasuke Tsuruya, so he visited his home, and it is said that he waited for 12 hours at the door of Nagasuke Tsuruya before meeting Nagasuke himself. Impressed by his sincerity, Nagasuke Tsuruya asked him to give it a try, and in 1973 he joined the hilarious skit band The Drifters as an intern and embarked on the path of comedy ever since.
Shimura then studied with another funny star, Kato Tea, and debuted under the stage name Ken Shimura. Ken Shimura (Japanese for "Shimura けん") was originally named Kant Shimura, and the character "Ken" was derived from his father's name "Ken" after he embarked on the road of acting, and in Japanese, "Jian" and "Xian" are homophones, both pronounced as "けん".
The Drifters, a group that lasted less than a year, faced disbandment, and in 1974, the popular variety show "Eight O'Clock!" on Japan's TBS television hosted by the Drifters. One of the people in "The Whole Collection" Arai Shu decided to quit, Kato Tea recommended Shimura to go in as an assistant host, and the 24-year-old Shimura Ken finally waited for the opportunity to play his specialty, and his comedic talent slowly tapped out and was accepted by the audience. Although the show ended in 1985, Ken Shimura remained the darling of Japanese television in the 1980s thanks to hilarious skits and strange song and dance performances.
Ken Shimura is a comedic genius who, as soon as he debuted, he created countless characters and funny stories with his outstanding comedic talent, becoming a living treasure in the Japanese short comedy industry. In 1986, Shimura ken created the first program "Stupid Lord" on Fuji Tv, and the makeup and movements of the head of the house he played were very funny, although he just sat there and talked to courtiers, maids and other people, but full of laughter, creating a comedy program that the Japanese people liked to hear.
In 1987, Fuji Television began broadcasting a show in which he starred, "Shimura Bursts of Laughter," which was a bit "dirty," and was named one of the shows that children least wanted to watch (子供に見せたくないテレビ番組), but the ratings were surprisingly high. In the show, sometimes he is a "strange uncle" with a big black mole on his face, sometimes he is a "hitomi mother-in-law" with big hair on his head and always helping in the hotel, and sometimes he is a "stupid old man" with a thick eyebrow, etc. In the show, Shimura Ken pretends to be stupid, funny, crazy, and crazy, sending countless joys to the audience.
Ken Shimura created a classic image of a lustful uncle in "Shimura Bursting With Laughter", and he used various dirty actions and passages to play a lustful uncle beautifully. However, although the paragraph is dirty, it is not obscene, but it causes people to laugh and is deeply loved by the Japanese people. As a result, his audience grew and his popularity grew, and he gradually grew into a national comedian in Japan.
Not only that, his performance style is self-contained, comedy is mainly expressed in expressions, actions and easy-to-understand language, so it has a lot of audiences in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as Thailand, India, Europe and the United States, etc., and is deeply loved by people. In addition to being funny, Ken Shimura also created an educational entertainment program that people get along with animals, "Genius! Shimura Zoo" has attracted countless viewers since its launch in 2004, and it is also a Japanese variety show that Chinese audiences are very familiar with.
In the show, Ken Shimura leads young artists such as Masaki Aiba and Haruna Kondo to try to take care of different types of animals. One of the program's columns, "Ah Ben and Ah Zhan", was introduced in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, and the chimpanzee "Ah Ben" and the pit bull dog "Ah Zhan" became a good memory for the audience and cured many people's unhappiness.
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Shimura Ken has been in the scandal since his debut, but he has never been married, and he admits that he has always had the intention of getting married, but he has not achieved his wishes. He once said on the show that he had the idea of getting married since he was about 20 years old, and then he continued to associate with women, and he also thought about getting married but couldn't escape the fate of breaking up after about three years, and his desire to have a child was not realized.
He once said, "It's my life, I just do what I like." I don't think about whether it sells for money or not because no one knows what the future holds, but I'll keep doing it until I'm satisfied. It seems that he feels that the enjoyment of the process is more important than the result, and there are many actresses who have passed on the gossip with him, including many Japanese national goddesses.
He had proposed to anchor Ayako Kato that year, but there was no response, and the relationship did not end. More than ten years ago, he also rumored that he wanted to marry Asami Hotaru, and Asami Hotaru was 32 years younger than him, the two had been photographed many times on a secret date in a restaurant, and the reporter also interviewed Asami Hotaru asked her and her boyfriend Shimura Ken about her relationship, and did not expect asahi Tohoka to directly show love to Shimura Ken. However, neither of them came to the end.
Although Ken Shimura is a Japanese comedy king with an annual income of more than 1 billion yen, he has no wife, no children and no family, so he has also confessed that he does not like loneliness when he is alone, in order to solve this loneliness, he plays very high in the show, the action is exaggerated and funny, and he especially likes to visit nightclubs or go to bars to drink on weekdays. Sometimes after the party with friends, he will find a bar again, or find a drinking girl to continue drinking and having fun, some people say that he once drank from 6 pm to 6 am the next morning, which shows that the king of comedy outside the show is still very lonely.
Some people say that he smokes particularly badly, program team colleagues and friends also advised him to smoke less when he is older, but he laughs and smiles, it is said that the highest record of his smoking is to smoke 60 cigarettes a day, it seems that he smoked not smoke but is "lonely", and then the irregular life made his physical condition worse and worse, in 2018, liver problems were also found, and doctors also warned him that he could no longer smoke, and he decided to quit smoking.
Despite his poor physical condition, Ken Shimura is still going his own way, and at the beginning of this year he was photographed showing up on the street with beautiful women, eating, drinking and having fun, and this debauchery and human style is also the reason for his deteriorating health. As we all know, the average life expectancy of Japanese people is very long, Japan is also one of the few countries in the world with a long life, Andamura Ken died of illness at the age of 70, in addition to the impact of the epidemic, his own immunity is also relatively poor.
Until the outbreak of the epidemic in Japan, he still visited nightclubs, drank small wine, and lived a happy life, and some netizens speculated that perhaps he went to these social places to be infected with the virus, but this is no longer important, he has passed away. According to his nanny, his last words before his death were "I hope you can help me take good care of my dog", it seems that he regarded the puppy as a family.
Ken Shimura is a famous Japanese comedy performance artist, who has been in the Japanese show business circle for nearly half a century, and because of his lofty status in the comedy industry, he has been praised by many Japanese artists as "the king of Japanese comedy". The news of his death has occupied the news page of major Japanese media, and many artist netizens have mourned for him and thanked him for his contributions to the Japanese performing arts industry over the years. In front of the camera, Ken Shimura is always smiling and welcoming, good at packaging himself with "comedy", amusing the audience and bringing laughter to the audience.
Looking back on his comedic path and his private life today is also instructive. Funny, serious, affectionate, debauched, unwilling to be lonely Ken Shimura, after 70 years of playing human life, suddenly left the audience who loved him, but as the king of Japanese comedy, his life has been very exciting.
bibliography:
Ken Shimura: Strange Uncle, Shincho Bunko, 2002