On the evening of March 29, 2020, the king of Comedy in Japan died of COVID-19 at the age of 70.
On March 25, Ken Shimura was rushed to the hospital for pneumonia and urgently stopped filming the starring movie "God of Movies", because he was 70 years old, so he was weak and required the intervention of a ventilator during treatment, and he did not expect to die in only 4 days.
It is reported that although Shimura Ken is 70 years old, he is still active in the entertainment industry before his death, so the people he contacted before the illness were all big names in Japanese entertainment, and they are currently being quarantined.
【Biography】
Ken Shimura was born in 1950 and has hosted Eight O'Clock! Funny shows such as "Full Collection", "Drifu Big Hilarious", "Shimura Hilarious" and so on, because of their status in the Japanese comedy industry, are called "Japan's comedy kings" by many junior artists. He also enjoys a high reputation in Thailand, India, Europe and the United States. In 1996, when gossip media revealed that he was dead, he had to hold a press conference to clarify the rumors.
He has not been married so far, but there is a lot of lace news, he has had a scandal with the Japanese action actress Asami Suika and others, and even the marriage news with Asami Hotaru, the difference between the two is 32 years old, it can be called "father-daughter love", but it is said that he has not been married because he is afraid of being divided by his girlfriend (he is worth 3.5 billion yen).
Unfortunately, he was not able to marry until his death, so he had no heirs, no wife, and the 3.5 billion inheritance was not known how to inherit.
Each country has its own "king of comedy", chaplin in the United Kingdom, Stephen Chow in China, Jim Carrey in the United States, and Ken Shimura in Japan, and the departure of Ken Shimura must have made the Japanese people very sad.