Ken Shimazu
BIOGRAPHY
Ken Shimazu (Japanese: 島津見; born November 19, 1997) is a Japanese actor signed to 1 Carat. He was born in Kameoka, a city in Kyoto Prefecture, and stands 173 cm (5’8″) tall.
Ken began his performing career on stage in 2021, appearing in the production “Give Up Dance!!!” with the theater group Bancho BoysNEXT, before transitioning into television and film work.
His screen credits include a role in NHK’s Drama 10 series Ōoku (2023) and the MBS/TBS drama Ashita, Watashi wa Dareka no Kanojo (2022). In film, he played Rei in TOKYO, I LOVE YOU (2023).
In 2026, Ken joined the cast of the BS Fuji BL drama Fake Fact Lips, based on the manga by Machi Suehiro, playing Riku Mochida as part of the supporting cast surrounding leads Kaito Hori and Yusuke Sato.
Outside of acting, Ken lists cooking, strength training, camping, and language learning among his interests, and speaks conversational English and Chinese alongside his native Japanese.
BLGLFlix editorial view
His page lists cooking, swimming, handball and two foreign languages, and that is not padding.
Ken Shimazu (島津見), born 19 November 1997 in Kameoka, is signed to 1 Carat. He began on stage in 2021 with Bancho Boys NEXT, moved into television with NHK’s Ōoku and MBS and TBS’s Ashita, Watashi wa Dareka no Kanojo, and in 2026 joined the cast of Fake Fact Lips.
Japanese agencies publish a standardised personal data sheet for every performer on the roster: height, hometown, hobbies, special skills, languages. It exists because casting directors use it as a filter, so a listed skill is a professional qualification rather than a piece of colour. Somebody looking for an actor who can swim on camera or hold a conversation in Chinese searches on exactly these fields.
That convention is why Japanese entries in this catalogue carry detail that Thai and Chinese entries do not, and it is worth understanding as a difference in publishing practice rather than as a difference in how interesting anyone is.
His stage beginning is the other thing worth noting. A theatre troupe rather than an agency training programme or a talent contest is a distinctly Japanese route into television, and it usually shows up in how an actor works with an ensemble.
PROFILE DETAILS
- Native Name
- 島津見
- Real Name
- Ken Shimazu
- Nickname
- Ken (島津見, Shimazu Ken)
- Pronouns
- he/him
- Born
- (Age 28)
- Birthplace
- Kameoka, Kyoto, Japan
- Gender
- Male
- Western Zodiac
- Scorpio ♏
- Chinese Zodiac
- Ox 🐂
- Height
- 173 cm (5'8")
- Profession
- Nationality
- Debut
- 2021 — Give Up Dance!!! (2021, stage, with Bancho Boys☆NEXT)
- Agency / Label
- 1 Carat / Ichikaratto (current)
- Years Active
- 2021-present
- Languages
- Japanese (native), English (conversational), Chinese (conversational)
- Skills
- Cooking, Singing, Swimming, Playing Handball, Speaking Chinese, Speaking English
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