Yūji Tanaka

Japanese owarai talent, television presenter and essayist (1965-)

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Age
61
Born 1965
Known for
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2020

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Updated 2026-08-20

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.