# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kazuhiko-shimamoto
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:38:28.424Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kazuhiko-shimamoto"
name: "Kazuhiko Shimamoto"
slug: "kazuhiko-shimamoto"
description: "Hidehiko Tezuka , better known as Kazuhiko Shimamoto , is a Japanese manga artist. He attended college at the Osaka University of Arts in the fine arts department. While in college in February 1982, he debuted in the spring special issue of Weekly Shōnen Sunday with Hissatsu no Tenkōsei. At this point, he dropped out of college and devoted his energy to becoming a manga artist."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/yLiZol71PxEQIRwd5RlE1Goh2BC.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.77
  momentum:             4.572624028690973
  historical:           10.77511466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/simakazu"
    handle:    "simakazu"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2281202/"
    handle:    "nm2281202"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1632d4e9-2b08-436f-91db-4d7430e34fc1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuhiko_Shimamoto"
    title: "Kazuhiko Shimamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuhiko_Shimamoto"
    title: "Kazuhiko Shimamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuhiko_Shimamoto"
    title: "Kazuhiko Shimamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuhiko_Shimamoto"
    title: "Kazuhiko Shimamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B3%B6%E6%9C%AC%E5%92%8C%E5%BD%A6"
    title: "島本和彦"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%9C%EB%A7%88%EB%AA%A8%ED%86%A0_%EC%B9%B4%EC%A6%88%ED%9E%88%EC%BD%94"
    title: "시마모토 카즈히코"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuhiko_Shimamoto"
    title: "Kazuhiko Shimamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimamoto_Kazuhiko"
    title: "Shimamoto Kazuhiko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimamoto_Kazuhiko"
    title: "Shimamoto Kazuhiko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B3%B6%E6%9C%AC%E5%92%8C%E5%BD%A5"
    title: "島本和彥"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1626187"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1752531"
    title: "Kazuhiko Shimamoto"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump