Kazunobu Mineta
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| Native name | 峯田 和伸 |
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10 December 1977 Yamanobe, Higashimurayama District, Yamagata, Japan |
| Genres | Youth punk |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
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| Years active | 1996– |
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Kazunobu Mineta (峯田 和伸 Mineta Kazunobu, born 10 December 1977, in Yamanobe, Higashimurayama District, Yamagata) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and actor. In 1996 he formed the youth punk band Going Steady and started music activities. He is currently continuing his activities as a member of Ginkgo Boyz. He graduated from Tokyo University of Information Sciences Faculty of Management Information.
Biography
My parents store 500 million electric sales of the dealer Mineta Denki. He graduated from Tateyama Neighbor Primary School, Tateyama Edge Junior High School, Yamagata Civic Commercial High School (he belonged to the soft baseball club and was also in charge of accounting audit at the student council), and Tokyo University of Information Sciences Faculty of Management Information. He is synchronized with composer Akio Izutsu. He made his CD debut in his name in katakana (ミネタカズノブ) playing the Vocal and guitar of the youth punk band Going Steady in 1999. Despite their popularity peak, the band broke up in 2003. In the same year, he participated in solo activities in Elephant Kashimashi's tribute album Hanaotoko as a member of Ginnan Boyz. After that, Ginnan Boyz became his band regime, and Mineta is in charge of vocals and guitar. In 15 January 2005, the band released two albums simultaneously Kimi to Boku no Dai Sanji Sekai Taisen-teki Renai Kakumei and Door.
During his solo career, he starred in the film Iden & Tity as the leading character Nakajima. In 2002 and 2005, he released two books Mayonaka no Futari-goto and Futari-goto co-authored with the Onanie Machine bassist and vocalist Inomar. The DVD version of Futari-goto was also released, and he carries out a wide range of activities as well as music.
On 2005, he got naked during a live performance in the Rock in Japan Festival 2005, and sent out documents.
On 2006, Mineta and guitarist Chin Nakamura, as well as four non-celebrity women recruited from their own blog debut as Binkan Dhōnen-tai. He released the book "Koi to Taikutsu" with his modified blog.
Ginnan Boyz's documentary DVD Bokutachi wa Sekai o Kaeru koto ga dekinai. was released on 11 April 2007. He later appear in the role of a pornographic actor on the film version of Gummy-Chocolate-Pine created by Kenji Ohtsuki.
On the night of 28 July 2007, when he appeared in a concert in Taipei, Taiwan, he took off hid underwear on the stage and showed his lower body and underwent an interrogation by police authorities. According to the Taiwanese newspaper United Daily News the following day, during the demonstration he pulled his pants down to the knees, singing closer to the audience at the stage. The organizer later said that the pants accidentally fell down when crouching, but the police authorities said that they would touch criminal disturbances of criminal law. When Mineta went off to his underwear, a part of the audience got excited and rushed to the stage (that the venue showed a considerable excitement with the call to Ginnan Boyz even after their live concert ended). Afterwards, the document was sent to the public on charges of obscene neglect, paid a fine of 9,000 Taiwanese dollars and returned to Japan on the following day (he informed the local people who wanted the story of the article, not the audience nor stakeholder journalists).
He appeared on Monster Bash, an outdoor festival held in Kagawa Prefecture on 25 August 2007. Minneta became naked just before leaving the stage, and band member Shinya Abiko lowered his head and apologized.
On 24 December 2008, a male fan's genitalia was chewed by another male fan and cried at a collaborative project with Inomar of Onanie Machine who appeared at Ginnan Boyz's Dōtei-tachi no Christmas Eve 2008.
On 20 April 2009, at a preliminary show preview of the film Shikisoku Generation (directed by Tomorowo Taguchi), an interview conducted for a reporter to the performer Asami Usuda with frequent sexual harassment questions such as "free sex faction?" Mineta, who fogged his expression on this, had a curtain to interrogate about twenty minutes and said "how did you hear it?" to the reporter after the interview.[1]
His first starring role in a serial drama was in the Premium Drama Kiseki no Hito of NHK BS Premium in 2016.[2]
| Dates | Title | Role | Network | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr–Jun 2016 | Kiseki no Hito | Ichitaku Kameji | NHK BS Premium | Lead role | [3] |
| Apr 2017 – | Asadora Hiyokko | Muneo Koiwai | NHK |
Music videos
| Year | Artist | Song | Role | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Yuko Ando | "Hone" | Kosuke Kindaichi[4] |
References
- ↑ "監督・キャストが大絶賛！ みうらじゅん自伝映画主演俳優はリアル童貞！？" (in Japanese). Oricon. 21 April 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
- ↑ "銀杏BOYZ・峯田和伸、『恋仲』最終回に出演 民放ドラマ初挑戦" (in Japanese). Oricon. 10 September 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
- ↑ "銀杏BOYZ ・峯田、連ドラ初主演 麻生久美子と13年ぶり共演". Oricon Style (in Japanese). 11 March 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
- ↑ "安藤裕子の新曲MVで峯田和伸が金田一耕助役". Music Natalie (in Japanese). 24 February 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
External links
- Ginnan Boyz official site (in Japanese)
- Kazunobu Mineta no Asayake Nyannyan (in Japanese)
- Kazunobu Mineta no Gabugabu Die Ally (in Japanese)