Famous People with Name Minoru

Minoru Kawasaki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minoru Kawasaki: a Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for his low budget, absurdist comedy films.Kawasaki began his career with some self-financed films, including Iko the Earth Patrol Girl, and manga to live action adaptions, before working on Ultraman Tiga. He had his first hit with Calamari Wrestler, a film about a wrestler who becomes a large squid. He followed this up with Executive Koala, featuring a koala office worker who may have murdered his wife, Kabuto-O Beetle, another wrestling movie, this time with a giant stag beetle. In 2006, he released Everyone But Japan Sinks (a parody of Japan Sinks) and Crab Goalkeeper, a movie Kawasaki describes as being like Forrest Gump.

Minoru Shibuya            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minoru Shibuya: was a Japanese film director. He directed 24 films between 1937 and 1966.

Minoru Kojima            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minoru Kojima: was the original guitarist for Japanese Punk group The Mad Capsule Markets. He started Mad in 1985 with vocalist Kyono(which at this time was called Berrie), in an attempt to create "loud, punk music" after becoming "bored" with music played on television and radio. After the release of Mad's debut Humanity(album), Minoru left the band, and was replaced by "Support Guitarist" Ai Ishigaki. In 1991 Minoru started Die in Cries and in 1994 later became a member of The Bloody Imitation Society. Over the years Minoru worked with more bands and even went solo for short time before returning for a to Mad to play on 010's Good Day and playing on the Cistm Konfliqt tour. Minoru still is a full member of mad, and may later re-join if mad begin to make new material again as 2nd support guitarist TORUxxx has now left the band.

Minoru Mukaiya            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minoru Mukaiya: a Japanese musician. He joined the jazz fusion band Casiopea in 1979 as keyboardist.He is also the producer of the train simulator game, Train Simulator and CEO of Ongakukan.

Minoru Iwata            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minoru Iwata: japanese pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers. He is a member of the Japan in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.He was drafted by the Hanshin Tigers out of college. In his debut, Iwata allowed four runs in 3 innings of work and lost his only game in 2006. In 2007 , Iwata was 0-1 and a 5.40 ERA. In 2008 , he was third in voting for the 2008 Central League Rookie of the Year Award, trailing Tetsuya Yamaguchi and Hayato Sakamoto after going 10-10 with a 3.28 ERA and 101 strikeouts.