who also uses the name Shimiken (しみけん) is a male

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(AV) actor from

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. He is credited with having sex with over 10,000 women in the course of making 10,000 films.

Life and career

Shimizu was born on September 1, 1979 and made his first appearance as a

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model at 18 years old in the July 1998 issue of the Japanese gay men's magazine ''Buddy'' (Badi). His AV career began shortly afterward and by mid-2002 he was reported to have appeared in over 1200 adult videos. Although Shimizu makes homosexual adult movies, like fellow AV actor Yoshiya Minami, he is a popular figure in the gay community. He and Minami appear together in a May, 2003 video from

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, ''Ecstasy: Venture'' (ECSTASY ～危険な香り～), with actresses Hitomi Shina and

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but in an unusual twist for Japanese porn the video box cover features Shimizu and Minami, not the actresses, and seems pointed toward a female (or gay) audience. In an even more male-oriented project from November 2007 produced by Force Entertainment, ''CYBER EXSTASY'', he appears in an anthology along with Japanese AV actor Natuya Togawa. The video excerpts scenes from the actors' heterosexual videos but dwells on the male body. 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. The December 2007 video, produced by

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and prominently displaying Shimizu clad only in briefs on the cover presents him having sex with seven

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s, Chihiro Hara, Mangetsu Sakuragawa, Nene, Kaede Akina, Natsuki Sugisaki,

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and Marin. 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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shimizu, Ken 1979 births Living people Japanese male pornographic film actors Actors in gay pornographic films Japanese bodybuilders Actors from Chiba Prefecture