- Is an original member of the Fundoshi Corps, along with Noboru Iguchi and Yukihiko Yamaguchi.
- Founder of Tokyo-based Nishimura Motion Picture Model Makers Group (Y.K. Nishimura Eizô), originally a special make-up effects company that later became involved in movie production.
- Meatball Machine (2005) became the international breakthrough movie of Yoshihiro Nishimura's career, as a result of the extensive coverage his special make-up effects work on it received from then-independent movie news website Twitch, beginning over a month before its premiere at the now-defunct Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival.
- Became interested in making models when he saw Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope as a child.
- Is an alumnus of Aoyama Gakuin University (AGU) in Shibuya, Tokyo.
- The "true source of virtually all English language" information online relating to him and Noboru Iguchi is Marc Walkow, according to Todd Brown of XYZ Films' movie news website screenanarchy.com.
- Is a member of Nihon Eiga Kantoku Kyôkai a/k/a Directors Guild of Japan (DGJ).
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