Gackt
Gakuto Oshiro (born July 4, 1973) best known by his mononymous stage name Gackt is a Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor. Gackt’s father was a music teacher, and his mother also a teacher. He is the second of three children, with an older sister and younger brother. His musical education began early, and he started learning classical music theory and piano from the age of three. After exposure to rock music during his teenage years he practiced electric guitar and drums intensely. In the early 1990s he was working as a sound technician and studio drummer, but by the mid-'90s he had begun his career as a singer. He spent a short time in the independent band Cains:Feel before moving on to the visual kei rock band Malice Mizer. With Gackt as vocalist, lyricist, and composer, they rose to fame within the visual kei genre. In 1999 he parted ways with the band and launched his solo career, debuting with the EP Mizérable. He has since released nine studio albums, eight compilation albums, and forty-four singles. He has toured extensively within Japan and also throughout Asia and Europe. With an illustrious career spanning over 15 years, and forty-three consecutive singles ranked in the top ten of the Oricon music charts, he holds the title of the most successful male soloist in Japanese music history. A hallmark of his productions has been the use of all-encompassing, conceptual, and sometimes abstract themes, "Moon" and "Requiem et Reminiscence", to develop a series of related songs, concerts, movies, books or theatre play. To describe this idea he combined the words visual, live (concert), and alive to form the term "Visualive". It references the evocative and immersive experience he strives to create for his audiences. In addition to his music career, Gackt has undertaken various film and television acting roles. He wrote and starred in his first cinematic production Moon Child (2003), which screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003, and the Philadelphia Film Festival in 2004. In 2007 he received a TV Navi award for best supporting actor in a drama, for his portrayal of the powerful feudal leader Kenshin Uesugi in NHK's The Trusted Confidant (2007). One of Gackt's most notable performances was as the samurai protagonist Yoshi in the Guy Moshe film Bunraku (2010), where he costarred alongside Josh Hartnett, Woody Harrelson, Ron Perlman and Demi Moore. His depiction of the unnerving eunuch Jo Teigai in NHK's TV drama Tempest (2011) was brought to movie screens the following year in Gekijouban Tenpesuto 3D (2012). Gackt's numerous voice acting credits include animated films, such as Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker (2012), and video games, with two from the popular Final Fantasy VII series; Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (2006)and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (2007) among others. In his stage play debut Nemuri Kyoshiro Burahikae (2010), Gackt was cast as the leading character. He later expanded his theater credentials by resuming his "Moon" concept and writing, producing, composing and starring in Moon Saga - Yoshitsune Hiden (2012). He has since announced a sequel scheduled to begin in August 2014 entitled Moon Saga - Yoshitsune Hiden - Chapter 2 (2014).
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Bunraku
as YoshiIn a world with no guns, a mysterious drifter, a bartender and a young samurai plot revenge...
Movie pageBlue Fight
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as Oda NobunagaThe film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Akira Masamune. The story takes place in...
Movie pageMoon Child
as ShoMoon Child follows a group of childhood friends as they advance in a futuristic criminal...
Movie pageFly me to the Saitama
as Rei AsamiPeople from Saitama Prefecture are persecuted and, because of this, they hide the fact that they...
Movie pageMy Little Nightmare: The Movie
as Takashi ShikiNew student Kanji transfers to 6th grade 2 class, where Ayami Mutoi works as the homeroom...
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as HeroA silent short film released as a prequel to the Malice Mizer’s third studio album merveilles,...
Movie pageMOON SAGA - Mysteries of Yoshitsune I
as Minamoto no YoshitsuneThe theatre play is set in the late Heian (794–1185) and early Kamakura period (1185–1333) in...
Movie pageMOON SAGA - Mysteries of Yoshitsune 2
as Minamoto no YoshitsuneThe story begins from March in year 1184 2 months after the final scene in the first play. The...
Movie pageMALICE MIZER: merveilles ~Shuuen to Kisuu~ l'espace
as Self - Vocals, PianoRecordings of two live performances by Malice Mizer edited into a complete concert experience of...
Movie pageGackt Live Tour 2003: Jougen no Tsuki ~Final Show~
as SelfFilmed during Gackt's Arena Tour that kicked off May 4, 2003. This electrifying concert was the...
Movie pageFly Me to Saitama: From Biwa Lake with Love
as ReiThis is a sequel of “Fly Me to the Saitama”.
Movie pageGackt Live Tour 2000 MARS ~Visitor from the Sky: La réminiscence~
as uncreditedGackt Live Tour 2000 MARS ~Visitor from the Sky: La réminiscence~ was the first live tour of...
Movie pageGackt Live Tour 2004 THE SIXTH DAY & SEVENTH NIGHT ~FINAL~
as SelfJapan's notorius J-pop goth punk star Gackt has produced many best-selling albums and has a...
Movie pageMALICE MIZER: No Return Voyage "Final" ~one more time~
as SelfA home video release documenting Malice Mizer's last indie live before signing with Columbia, at...
Movie pageGackt X Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra Part II -A Splendid Evening of Classic-
as SelfFeatures the concert performed by GACKT and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in the end of 2014....
Movie pageRequiem et Reminiscence (Shuuen to Seijyaku)
as uncreditedPeaking at 10 on Japan's Oricon video charts, the live concert DVD of Gackt's 2001 tour Requiem...
Movie pageGackt: The Greatest Filmography 1999-2006: Blue
as uncreditedThe ballad-heavy companion to the Red DVD release, featuring hits like "Last Song," "Love...
Movie pageGackt: The Greatest Filmography 1999-2006: Red
as uncreditedA harder-edge companion to its ballad-heavy counterpart Blue, the Red collection of music videos...
Movie pageGackt X Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra -A Splendid Evening of Classic-
as SelfFeatures GACKT's first concert with an orchestra, "Kareinaru Classic no Yube," in which his...
Movie pageMALICE MIZER: merveilles ~cinq parallele~
as SelfA home video release of five Malice Mizer music videos from their third studio album "merveilles".
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TV Show pageShiki
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TV Show pageMy Little Nightmare
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TV Show pageTime Spiral
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TV Show pageTrickster
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TV Show pageMR.BRAIN
as uncreditedRyusuke Tsukumo is a quirky, yet brilliant neuroscientist working for the National Research...
TV Show pageThe Tempest
as Jyo TeigaiSet in the Ryukyu Kingdom during the latter days of the Tokugawa shogunate, a woman takes the...
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