# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuji-tanaka-2
# Generated: 2026-08-20T20:57:54.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuji-tanaka-2"
name: "Yūji Tanaka"
slug: "yuji-tanaka-2"
description: "Yūji Tanaka  is a Japanese comedian. He is best known as half of the owarai duo Bakusho Mondai along with Hikari Ota. He also played Mike in the Japanese dub of the Pixar movie Monsters, Inc., Br'er Fox in the Japanese dub of the Disney movie Song of the South , Shaun in the Japanese dubs of Shaun The Sheep Movie and A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmaggedon, and Josh Valentine in the Japanese dub of Godzilla vs. Kong. Tanaka was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2000, but was successfully treated following surgery."
tagline: "Japanese owarai talent, television presenter and essayist (1965-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yuji_Tanaka_at_Kadena_Air_Base_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965-01-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.18
  momentum:             18.20926549198179
  historical:           5.120576
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1789369/"
    handle:    "nm1789369"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8060527"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuji_Tanaka"
    title: "Yūji Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%88%DA%86%D9%89_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "ياوچى تاناكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E8%A3%95%E4%BA%8C_(%E3%81%8A%E7%AC%91%E3%81%84%E8%8A%B8%E4%BA%BA)"
    title: "田中裕二 (お笑い芸人)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/256a7dd9-0055-46a8-ab02-f0e82a546267"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4102448"
    title: "Tanaka Yuji"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Discovered via Wikipedia top-views