Shinji Mizuta

Shinji Mizuta, born in April 1980, spent years as the tsukkomi — the straight man — of the comedy duo Wagyu, and I still think they were among the most technically precise manzai acts Japan has produced. They finished runner-up at the M-1 Grand Prix, the country's biggest comedy competition, three years running. Winning once makes you famous; losing the final three times makes you legendary in a stranger, more haunting way. What feels right to me is that Mizuta trained as a cook before he made his living talking. Cooking and manzai are both about sequence: the correct thing, in the correct order, timed to the second. Since the duo ended he has surfaced as a presenter and back around food, and that patient rhythm of his has survived the change intact.

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Name (English)

Shinji Mizuta

Name (Japanese)

水田信二

Reading

みずた しんじ

Born

April 15, 1980 (age 46)

Occupation

owarai tarento / presenter / cook

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Monkey

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mizuta_shinji/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B4%E7%94%B0%E4%BF%A1%E4%BA%8C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69634767

Tags

• owarai tarento
• presenter
• cook

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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