Ken Shimizu
Japanese YouTuber, businessman, and former pornographic film actor (born 1979)
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Ken Shimizu (Japanese: 清水 健, Hepburn: Shimizu Ken; born September 1, 1979) is a Japanese YouTuber, businessman, restauranteur, and former pornographic film actor. He is credited with having sex with over 10,000 women in the course of making 10,000 films.[2][3]
- ShimiKen (しみけん)
- Shim Ik-hyun
- Shimi-kyung
- Businessman
- YouTuber
- restauranteur
Career
Born on September 1, 1979, and made his first appearance as a gravure model at 18 years old in the July 1998 issue of the Japanese gay men's magazine Buddy. His AV career began shortly afterward and by mid-2002 he was reported to have appeared in over 1,200 adult videos.[4][5]
Another possible example of the Japanese AV industry's new interest in women viewers is shown in the 2008 Adult Video Grandprix contest where Shimizu's video Shimiken's Private 7 FUCK (しみけんのプライベート7FUCK) won the Best Miscellaneous Video award.[6] The December 2007 video, produced by IdeaPocket and prominently displaying Shimizu clad only in briefs on the cover presents him having sex with seven AV idols: Chihiro Hara, Mangetsu Sakuragawa, Nene, Kaede Akina, Natsuki Sugisaki, Yua Aida and Marin.[7] A second volume in the series, Shimiken's Private 7 FUCK 2 (しみけんのプライベート7FUCK 2), which also portrays his physique on the video box front cover, was released in August 2008.[8]
On January 1, 2011, Shimizu changed his stage name to "ShimiKen" after receiving a phone call from his father telling him not to appear in adult videos under his real name.[9]
In 2016, he opened a restaurant in Tokyo that served "poo-flavored curry".[10]
In 2019, he was featured in an extensive interview published in The Chosun Ilbo. That same year, he launched a YouTube channel targeting Korean viewers called "ShimiKen TV".[11] Since many Koreans found the name “ShimiKen” difficult to pronounce, he also adopted a Korean name, Shim Ik-hyun (also written as Shimi-kyung).[11]
In October 2023, ShimiKen retired from being a pornographic actor, followed by the enactment of the AV Act for the Prevention and Relief of Victims of AV Appearances.[12]
