Background
Minase Yashiro was born on February 3, 1985 in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
八代みなせ
Minase Yashiro was born on February 3, 1985 in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
She debuted as a gravure (swimsuit) model in 2006, releasing her first Digital Video Disc MINASE Minakuru! February 17, 2006 just after her twenty-first birthday, and by mid-2009 she had issued 10 solo DVDs. Yashiro has appeared on several television programs including Sports eye Entertainment and Sports Programming Network on SkyPerfecTV, Idol Star (アイドルの星) on ENTA!371, Pao Pao on Bachelor of Science Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai, Sabadol! (サバドル!) on television Tokyo and Ranking Kingdom (ランク王国) from Turner Broadcasting System. More recently, she also was on the Turner Broadcasting System show Beach Angels filmed in Okinawa. In addition, she has been featured in such magazines as Weekly Young Jump, Flash Exciting, Monthly Gon and Weekly Asahi Geinō.
In 2007 Yashiro was selected as one of the three winners of the Sanyo Image Girl "Marin-chan o Sagase!" ("Search for Marine-chan!") contest.
The three models are the third generation of the "Mission Marine-Chan" (ミスマリンちゃん, Misu marin-chan) character used for advertising for the Sanyo Bussan company which makes "pachinko" and slot machines. They are also featured in a photo book Mission Marine-chan Umi Monogatari.
Yashiro made her film debut in Noboru Iguchi"s gore-fest The Machine Girl in 2008 playing the lead role of Ami, the girl who goes on a revenge spree with a machine gun for a left arm. The movie was released theatrically and on Digital Video Disc in both Japan and the United States.
According to the Nippon Cinema reviewer, "she plays Ami with 100% conviction - and that really helps sell some of the funny lines she has to deliver with a snarl".
In 2010, Yashiro appeared in Kamen Rider Double Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate as one of the antagonists, Reika Hanehara the Heat Dopant. She reprised her role as Reika Hanehara in the 2011 V-Cinema spinoff Kamen Rider West Returns: Kamen Rider Eternal. Digital Video Disc listing sources:
MINASE Minakuru! (みなくるっ) February 2006
Positive (タオ) May 2006
Shangrila (竹書房) August 2006
Afternoon Breeze (そよ風の中で) December 2006
Doushitemo.
(どうしても・・・) May 2007
Idol One: Shi, a, wa, se! (アイドル・ワン 八代みなせ / し・あ・わ・せ!) July 2007
Minan Chu (みなんChu) October 2007
Minasa Biyori (みなせ日和) February 2008
With (WITH -ウィズ-) January 2009
Pavilion (PAVILION) June 2009.