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).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 11.558 |
Birthday | 1973-07-04 |
Place of Birth | Okinawa, Japan |
Also Known As | Gakuto Oshiro, Gackt Camui, |
2003
Moon Child
5.69/29
Moon Child follows a group of childhood friends as they advance in a futuristic criminal underworld. Sho feels he is doomed to walk in his idol Kei's...
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Moon Child
2010
Bunraku
5.814/304
In a world with no guns, a mysterious drifter, a bartender and a young samurai plot revenge against a ruthless leader and his army of thugs, headed by...
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Bunraku
2006
Gackt Live Tour 2005 DIABOLOS -Aien no Shi to Seiya no Namida
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Gackt Live Tour 2005 DIABOLOS -Aien no Shi to Seiya no Namida
2003
New Fist of the North Star: The Cursed City
6.222/27
In the 21st century, a nuclear war turned most of the Earth's surface into a desert wasteland, which also resulted in the contamination of the Earth's...
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New Fist of the North Star: The Cursed City
2009
Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker
5.4/9
Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker is the film adaptation of the 2009 Kamen Rider Series Kamen Rider Decade. As Decade is billed as the 10...
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Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker
2014
My Little Nightmare: The Movie
6.7/7
New student Kanji transfers to 6th grade 2 class, where Ayami Mutoi works as the homeroom teacher. Students begin to talk among themselves that they h...
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My Little Nightmare: The Movie
1997
Bel Air ~Kuuhaku no Shunkan no Naka De~ de l'image
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A short film released as a prequel to the Malice Mizer concept album 'Merveilles'.
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Bel Air ~Kuuhaku no Shunkan no Naka De~ de l'image
1998
Malice Mizer: merveilles ~Shuuen to Kisuu~ l'espace
10/2
Two live performances by Malice Mizer combined together into a full experience of the band’s third studio album "merveilles", filmed while on tour in...
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Malice Mizer: merveilles ~Shuuen to Kisuu~ l'espace
1997
Malice Mizer: No Return Voyage "Final" ~one more time~
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A home video release documenting Malice Mizer's last indie live before signing with Columbia, at Shibuya Kokaido on 4/1/1997.
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Malice Mizer: No Return Voyage "Final" ~one more time~
2006
Gackt: The Greatest Filmography 1999-2006: Red
8/1
A harder-edge companion to its ballad-heavy counterpart Blue, the Red collection of music videos by Japanese rock star Gackt Camui includes a dozen tr...
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Gackt: The Greatest Filmography 1999-2006: Red
2006
Gackt: The Greatest Filmography 1999-2006: Blue
8/1
The ballad-heavy companion to the Red DVD release, featuring hits like "Last Song," "Love Letter," and "Kimi Ni Aitakute."
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Gackt: The Greatest Filmography 1999-2006: Blue
2000
Gackt Live Tour 2000 MARS ~Visitor from the Sky: La réminiscence~
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Gackt Live Tour 2000 MARS ~Visitor from the Sky: La réminiscence~ was the first live tour of Gackt, and it was released on VHS on October 4, 2000, and...
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Gackt Live Tour 2000 MARS ~Visitor from the Sky: La réminiscence~
2001
Requiem et Reminiscence (Shuuen to Seijyaku)
0/0
Peaking at 10 on Japan's Oricon video charts, the live concert DVD of Gackt's 2001 tour Requiem et Reminiscence.
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Requiem et Reminiscence (Shuuen to Seijyaku)
2019
Fly me to the Saitama
6.711/19
People from Saitama Prefecture are persecuted and, because of this, they hide the fact that they are from there. In Tokyo, Momomi Hakuhodo is a male h...
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Fly me to the Saitama
2003
Gackt Live Tour 2003: Jougen no Tsuki ~Final Show~
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Filmed during Gackt's Arena Tour that kicked off May 4, 2003. This electrifying concert was the tour's last show at Yokohama Arena.
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Gackt Live Tour 2003: Jougen no Tsuki ~Final Show~
2004
Gackt Live Tour 2004 THE SIXTH DAY & SEVENTH NIGHT ~FINAL~
10/1
Japan's notorius J-pop goth punk star Gackt has produced many best-selling albums and has a devoted fan base, but people still find it difficult to cl...
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Gackt Live Tour 2004 THE SIXTH DAY & SEVENTH NIGHT ~FINAL~
2014
Gackt X Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra -A Splendid Evening of Classic-
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Features GACKT's first concert with an orchestra, "Kareinaru Classic no Yube," in which his songs are newly arranged in classical music style backed b...
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Gackt X Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra -A Splendid Evening of Classic-
2015
Gackt X Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra Part II -A Splendid Evening of Classic-
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Features the concert performed by GACKT and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in the end of 2014. Several of Gackt's most famous hits fully arranged for a...
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Gackt X Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra Part II -A Splendid Evening of Classic-
2017
Karanukan
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Karanukan
2001
Requiem and Reminiscence 〜The End and Silence〜
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Requiem and Reminiscence 〜The End and Silence〜
2023
Fly Me to the Saitama: From Biwa Lake with Love
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People of Saitama Prefecture, who have been persecuted by Tokyoites for a long time, stand up for their freedom. Thanks to Momomi Hakuhodo (Fumi Nikai...
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Fly Me to the Saitama: From Biwa Lake with Love
Fly Me to Saitama: From Biwa Lake with Love
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This is a sequel of “Fly Me to the Saitama”.
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Fly Me to Saitama: From Biwa Lake with Love
2024
もしも徳川家康が総理大臣になったら
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The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Akira Masamune. The story takes place in 2020 during the pandemic when the Prime Minister sudde...
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