Minase Yashiro

Minase Yashiro was born on February 3, 1985, in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.{{cite web|url=http://www.sanyobussan.co.jp/fan/missmarine/yashiro.html|title=八代みなせ Minase Yashiro|publisher=sanyobussan.co.jp|accessdate=2009-09-11|language=Japanese|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018211921/http://www.sanyobussan.co.jp/fan/missmarine/yashiro.html|archive-date=2007-10-18|url-status=dead}} She debuted as a gravure (swimsuit) model in 2006,{{cite web|url=http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/sexy-japanese-gravure-idol-minase-yashiro-%E5%85%AB%E4%BB%A3%E3%81%BF%E3%81%AA%E3%81%9B/|title=Sexy Japanese gravure idol Minase Yashiro 八代みなせ|publisher=Japan Sugoi|accessdate=2009-09-11|date=July 31, 2007|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824164819/http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/sexy-japanese-gravure-idol-minase-yashiro-%E5%85%AB%E4%BB%A3%E3%81%BF%E3%81%AA%E3%81%9B/|archivedate=August 24, 2007}} releasing her first DVD MINASE Minakuru! February 17, 2006 just after her 21st birthday, and by mid-2009 she had issued 10 solo DVDs.{{cite web|url=http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/list_from_code_banner.html?key=386951|title=Minase Yashiro|publisher=cdjapan.co.jp|accessdate=2009-09-11}}

Yashiro has appeared on several TV programs including Sports eye ESPN on SkyPerfecTV, Idol Star (アイドルの星) on ENTA!371, Pao Pao on BS NHK, Sabadol! (サバドル!) on TV Tokyo and Ranking Kingdom (ランク王国) from TBS. More recently, she also was on the TBS show Beach Angels filmed in Okinawa.{{cite web|url=http://www.tbs.co.jp/tbs-ch/lineup/v1557.html|title=Beach Angels 八代みなせ in 久米島|publisher=tbs.co.jp|accessdate=2009-09-11|language=Japanese}} 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 {{nihongo|"Miss 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 Miss Marine-chan Umi Monogatari.{{cite web|url=http://www.sanyobussan.co.jp/fan/missmarine/|script-title=ja:ミスマリンちゃん|publisher=sanyobussan.co.jp|accessdate=2009-09-11|language=Japanese|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826120742/http://www.sanyobussan.co.jp/fan/missmarine/|archive-date=2009-08-26|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.hlj.com/product/GAK03527|title=Miss Marine-chan Umi Monogatari|publisher=hlj.com]|accessdate=2009-09-11}}

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 DVD in both Japan and the United States.{{cite web|url=http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/sexy-minase-yashiro-stars-in-the-machine-girl-revenge-movie/|title=Sexy Minase Yashiro stars in The Machine Girl revenge movie|publisher=Japan Sugoi|accessdate=2009-09-11|date=May 28, 2008}}{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1050160/|title=Kataude mashin gâru|accessdate=2009-07-28|publisher=IMDb}} 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".{{cite web |url=http://www.nipponcinema.com/db/review/the_machine_girl/|title=The Machine Girl (Kataude Machine Girl) review|accessdate=2009-09-11|publisher=Nippon Cinema|first=Kevin |last=Ouellette|date=June 2, 2008}} 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 W Returns: Kamen Rider Eternal. In 2018, Yashiro appeared in Kamen Rider Zi-O as Kaoru Kinoshita.

DVD listing sources:{{cite web|url=http://www.neowing.co.jp/idol/pickup/profile.html?idol=666|script-title=ja:八代みなせ|publisher=neowing.co.jp|accessdate=2009-09-11|language=Japanese}}

• 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

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• {{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2780824/|title=Minase Yashiro at IMdB|website=IMDb }}
• {{cite web|url=http://ameblo.jp/yashiro-minase/|title=Official Blog|language=Japanese|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602234823/http://ameblo.jp/yashiro-minase/|archivedate=2013-06-02}}
• {{cite web|url=http://spysee.jp/%E5%85%AB%E4%BB%A3%E3%81%BF%E3%81%AA%E3%81%9B|title=八代みなせ (Minase Yashiro at SpySee)|language=Japanese|access-date=2009-09-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090820060257/http://spysee.jp/%E5%85%AB%E4%BB%A3%E3%81%BF%E3%81%AA%E3%81%9B|archive-date=2009-08-20|url-status=dead}}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.dmm.com/mono/dvd/-/list/=/article=actor/id=178927/|title=八代みなせ(やしろみなせ) (Minase Yashiro at DMM)|language=Japanese}}
• {{cite web|url=http://talent.yahoo.co.jp/pf/profile/pp3858|title=八代みなせ（女優・タレント・モデル） (Minase Yashiro at Yahoo! Japan|language=Japanese|access-date=2009-09-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722102724/http://talent.yahoo.co.jp/pf/profile/pp3858|archive-date=2011-07-22|url-status=dead}}

• {{official website|http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/yashiro0minase}}

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