# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-shimura
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:07:37.229Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-shimura"
name: "Ken Shimura"
slug: "ken-shimura"
description: "Yasunori Shimura , known professionally as Ken Shimura , was a Japanese comedian. He was born in Higashimurayama, Tokyo."
tagline: "Japanese comedian (1950-2020)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/1GKcw6mW53dbu0YSqsGPvNmaAiZ.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-02-20"
deathDate: "2020-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.11971466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/BakaTonoShimura"
    handle:    "BakaTonoShimura"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/ken_shimura_bakatono67/"
    handle:    "ken_shimura_bakatono67"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/kenshimura.global"
    handle:    "kenshimura.global"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793762/"
    handle:    "nm0793762"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://izawaoffice.jp/artist/shimura.php"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "كين شيمورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "كين شيمورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "কেন শিমুরা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ken Shimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shimura"
    title: "Ken Shimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shimura"
    title: "Ken Shimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shimura"
    title: "Ken Shimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کن شیمورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ken Shimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shimura"
    title: "Ken Shimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%9F_%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%94"
    title: "קן שימורה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ken Shimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shimura"
    title: "Ken Shimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BF%97%E6%9D%91%E3%81%91%E3%82%93"
    title: "志村けん"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%9C%EB%AC%B4%EB%9D%BC_%EC%BC%84"
    title: "시무라 켄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ken Shimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shimura"
    title: "Ken Shimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shimura"
    title: "Ken Shimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shimura"
    title: "Ken Shimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%84%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%87_%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0"
    title: "เค็ง ชิมูระ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shimura"
    title: "Ken Shimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shimura"
    title: "Ken Shimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimura_Ken"
    title: "Shimura Ken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shimura"
    title: "Ken Shimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BF%97%E6%9D%91%E5%81%A5"
    title: "志村健"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1320080"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/554052"
    title: "Ken Shimura"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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