 He has also expressed admiration for the Pop Art movement, citing Andy Warhol as "my biggest influence, visually, historically, and stylistically".Shimomura's paintings often take stereotypical American images of Asians – glowering, buck-toothed wartime "Japs", Fu Manchu, subservient geishas, martial artists – and skewer them through over-the-top exaggeration or juxtaposition with images of idealized American society.Pop culture icons such as Mickey Mouse, Coca-Cola, and Pikachu appear incongruously in bright, flat-perspective landscapes, sometimes with absurdly altered portraits of Shimomura himself.