The two colossi that started rising out of lower Manhattan’s landfill in the mid-sixties looked like the creation of some Howard Roark–like super ... soft-spoken Minoru Yamasaki, who in ...

He met NOA’s then-president Minoru Arakawa, Nintendo boss Hiroshi Yamauchi’s son-in-law. The filmmaker presented a pitch for the Super Mario Bros. movie with illustrations and a rough storyline.