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Japanese multi-hyphenate Noritake Kinashi (木梨 憲武, Kinashi Noritake, born 9 March 1962 in Chitosedai, Setagaya, Tokyo) has spread his skills across movies, music, comedy, and visual art. After forming the comedy duo Tunnels Takaaki Ishibashi in 1980, the pair created the pop group Yaen and released a wealth of material from 1998 to 2001. The following year, he appeared in the film Ryōma no Tsuma to sono Otto to Aijin and went on to contribute to a string of other movies and TV shows. He has also enjoyed a fruitful career as a painter, having staged his first solo exhibition in 2013, and has appeared in animated films including 2003's Finding Nemo, voicing the Japanese Marlin, and 2016's Finding Dory, also as the same character. In 2019, he marked the start of his solo singing with the debut EP Kinashi Funk -Nori Nori No-ri- and launched his own label Kinashi Records. 2022 saw the release of a new single, "One Night Carnival" and album 木梨ミュージック コネクション最終章 ～御年60周年記念盤～.
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