Gackt Kamui (?? ??, Kamui Gakuto, born July 4, 1973), known mononymously by his stage name Gackt, is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor, and author. He has been active since 1994, first as the frontman of the short-lived independent band Cains:Feel, then for the now defunct visual kei rock band Malice Mizer, before starting his solo career in 1999. He has released nine studio albums and, with forty-three singles released, holds the male soloist record for most top ten consecutive singles in Japan music history. His single "Returner (Yami no Sh?en)", released on June 20, 2007, was his first and only single to reach the number one spot on the Oricon charts. He became the first Japanese artist to release his music catalog on iTunes in October 2007.Besides the modern entertainment industry, his music has been used as theme songs for various video games, anime films and television series. In addition to his music career Gackt has acted in a few films, including the film he wrote, Moon Child, and his international debut Bunraku, and TV series such as the NHK drama F?rin Kazan. He also performed live in a theatre stage production.
Akumu-chan, Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker, Tempest 3D, Bunraku, Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker, Moon Child, Gackt: The Greatest Filmography:1999-2006: Blue
TV Shows
Furin Kazan, Shiki
Star Sign
Cancer
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Trademark
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Light, baritone voice
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Using facial make-up on and off stage
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Quote
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You can't have everything at once. Like the pockets in your clothes, there's a limit to how much we can have at once. There are times when to put something in your pocket, you have to throw something else away. You have to prioritize those decisions by yourself. There are things that you can't get back once you've thrown them away.
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With each sadness a woman gets more beautiful. I wonder if with each sadness a man gets stronger.
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Rather than be the sun to someone and light up everything around them, I want to be the moon and light the way just a little in front of them when they are lost or uncertain in the darkness, and always be there with them when they look up.
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Fact
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Album release "Diabolos" [September 2005]
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Begins the Asian tour of the Diabolos concert series with a January 15th performance at the Olympic Park in Seoul, Korea. [January 2006]
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Released his sixth and seventh albums together, The Sixth Day and The Seventh Night. Sixth Day is a collection of his Single releases, re-recorded and enhanced, and Seventh Night is an unplugged studio album, meaning an acoustic album of previously released songs. [July 2004]
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Appears with famed 'Kidô senshi Gandamu' creator Yoshiyuki Tomino at the premiere of the new 'Kidô senshi Z Gandam
A New Translation III - Love is the Pulse of the Stars' movie on
February 23rd at the Yurakuchou Marion Asashi Hall in Tokyo. This film marks the end of the collaboration between the two on this project, but both men have expressed admoration for the works of the other, and hope to be able to work on another project in the future. [February 2006]
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Begins 2005 Japan tour on September 23rd at the Toda Bunka Kaikan (Toda City Culture Hall) in Saitama. The tour is to have no less than 36 shows at 28 arenas over the next 3 months. [September 2005]
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Releases his new CD single "Redemption" on January 25th. The single is a tie-in to the new "Dirge of Cerberus - Final Fantasy VII" game, and both the 'A' and 'B' sides are themes from the game. [January 2006]
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Concludes his 2005 Japan Tour "Diabolos" with a historic December 24th Christmas Eve concert in the Tokyo Dome, one of Japan's largest arenas. The sold-out arena in the heart of Tokyo filled with 44,000 fans to celebrate Christmas with Gackt. It is the first time he has ever performed to such a large audience and given such a long concert. [December 2005]
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Lists New York, New York as his favorite city in the world (along with Paris, France). In fact, Gackt met former fellow Gackt Job member Masa in New York just after he went solo from Malice Mizer. Like much of the world, Gackt was stunned and devastated upon hearing of the attack on New York on September 11th, 2001, and in both sympathy to one of his favorite cities and as a plea to the world for peace, he wrote his Christmas ballad '12 Gatsu no Love Song' ('December Love Song') and filmed the music video for it in the recovering city. Enlisting people he found on the streets, he made regular New Yorkers the stars and subjects. The people held up signs and drawings expressing their hopes and asking for peace. At the end of the video, he signed a banner that had been placed near the site of the former World Trade Center, to show his solidarity with the people of the city and to further his appeal for a peaceful world, not just at Christmas, but throughout the years to come.
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The astounding Tokyo Dome Christmas Eve show that he performed on December 24th, 2005, is on record as his most expensive to mount and one of the costliest in Japanese concert history. The one-time-only event was estimated by his business partners to have cost ¥500 million (or about $4,296,270), and it took him and his other performers two years to plan and six months to rehearse.
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Contributed a series of advertisements for the popular video game 'Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty' and was rewarded for providing the publicity by having his name put into the game on one of the dog tags the player can collect from enemy soldiers.
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Owns the Tamaly Bar restaurant. The exact location of the restaurant was never publicly announced. The small dining room accommodates about 20 people, and the expensive but extensive menu provides a full 7 course meal with dessert.
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Has worked as a runway model for favorite designer Yoshiyuki Konishi.
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Keeps a massive collection of knives, guns, candle sticks, DVD movies, manga comics, artificial flowers, and skull-shaped interior goods in his house.
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Has been a lifelong fan of the Gundam series.
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Was voted number one in Oricon Magazine's "Sexiest Male Singer" ranking in September, 2005, and "Male Celebrity With Most Ideal Body" in June, 2010.
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He has two pets, a female Maine coon cat named Mei and a male white long haired Chihuahua named Eneru. His female miniature dachshund dog named Belle Constantine Chappy passed away in December of 2007.
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Began classical piano education at age three.
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Was once a member of the famous Japanese band Malice Mizer.
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He prefers candles over electric lights.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sengoku Basara - Moonlight Party
2012
TV Mini-Series
Nobunaga Oda
Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker
2012
Knight Commander (Japanese version, voice)
Gekijouban Tenpesuto 3D
2012
Tenpesuto
2011
TV Series
Jo Teigai
Shiki
2010
TV Series
Seishirou Kirishiki
Bunraku
2010
Yoshi (as Gackt Camui)
Gekijouban Kamen raidâ Dikeido: Ôru raidâ tai Daishokkâ
2009
Jôji Yûki
Mr. Brain
2009
TV Series
Takegami Teijirou
Fûrin kazan
2007
TV Series
Uesugi Kenshin
Kuraishisu koa: Fainaru fantajî VII
2007
Video Game
Genesis (Japanese version, voice)
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
2006
Video Game
Genesis (voice)
Bujingai: The Forsaken City
2003
Video Game
Lau Wong (voice, as Gackt Camui)
New Fist of the North Star
2003
TV Series
Seiji (as Gackt Camui)
Moon Child
2003
Sho
Hero's Hero
2002
TV Short
Gackt, Camui (as Gackt Camui)
Max the Movie
2016
Short
Taimu Supairaru
2014
TV Mini-Series
Akumu Chan the Movie
2014
Takashi Shiki
Akumu chan
2012
TV Mini-Series
Takashi Shiki / Yumeoji
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Kamen Raidâ Batoraido Wô
2013
Video Game performer: "Journey through the Decade"
Sengoku Basara - Moonlight Party
2012
TV Mini-Series performer: "Hakuro" / writer: "Hakuro"
Kamen raidâ x Kamen raidâ W & Dikeido Movie taisen 2010
2009
performer: "Stay the Ride Alive"
Gekijouban Kamen raidâ Dikeido: Ôru raidâ tai Daishokkâ
2009
performer: "The Next Decade"
Kamen raidâ Dikeido
2009
TV Series performer: "Journey through the Decade"
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
2006
Video Game arranger: "Redemption", "Longing" - as Gackt.C / lyrics: "Redemption", "Longing" - as Gackt.C / performer: "Redemption", "Longing" - as Gackt / writer: "Redemption", "Longing" - as Gackt.C
New Fist of the North Star
TV Series lyrics - 3 episodes, 2003 - 2004 music - 3 episodes, 2003 - 2004 performer - 3 episodes, 2003 - 2004
Moon Child
2003
performer: "Orenji no Taiyou" / writer: "Orenji no Taiyou"
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Best of the Best I: 40th Birthday
2014
Video documentary
Best of the Best I: Xtasy
2014
Video documentary
Gackt Live Tour 2005: Diabolos - Aien no Shi to Seiya no Namida
2006
Video documentary as Gackt Camui
Gackt Live Tour 2004: The Sixth Day and Seventh Night - Final
2004
Video documentary as Gackt Camui
Gackt Live Tour 2003: Jougen no Tsuki - Saishu-Shou
2003
Video documentary
Gackt live tour 2001: Requiem et réminiscence
2001
Video documentary as Gackt Camui
Gackt Live Tour 2000: Mars sora kara no houmonsha/Visitor from the Sky - La réminiscence
2000
Video documentary as Gackt Camui
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Best of the Best I: 40th Birthday
2014
Video documentary producer
Best of the Best I: Xtasy
2014
Video documentary producer
Gackt Live Tour 2005: Diabolos - Aien no Shi to Seiya no Namida
2006
Video documentary total concert producer - as Gackt Camui
Gackt Live Tour 2004: The Sixth Day and Seventh Night - Final
2004
Video documentary total concert producer - as Gackt Camui
Gackt Live Tour 2003: Jougen no Tsuki - Saishu-Shou
2003
Video documentary total concert producer
Gackt live tour 2001: Requiem et réminiscence
2001
Video documentary total concert producer - as Gackt Camui
Gackt Live Tour 2000: Mars sora kara no houmonsha/Visitor from the Sky - La réminiscence
2000
Video documentary total concert producer - as Gackt Camui
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Tengoku wa mada tôku
2008
music producer
Kidô senshi Z Gandamu II: Koibito tachi
2005
music arranger: "Metamorphoze" and "Mind Forest" - as Gackt Camui
Kidô senshi Z Gandamu: Hoshi o tsugu mono
2004
music arranger: "Kimi Ga Matteiru Kara {Since You Are Waiting} and "Metamorphoze" - as Gackt Camui
Moon Child
2003
composer: end song "Oranji no Taiyou" - as Gackt Camui
Texhnolyze
2003
TV Series music arranger: "Tsuki no Uta {Song of the Moon}" - as Gackt Camui
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Moon Child
2003
written by
Hero's Hero
2002
TV Short as Gackt Camui
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Yoshiki Symphonic Concert 2002 with Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra Featuring Violet UK
2005
Video documentary special thanks - as Gackt Camui
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Best of the Best I: 40th Birthday
2014
Video documentary
Himself (Vocals, Piano, Guitar)
Best of the Best I: Xtasy
2014
Video documentary
Himself (Vocals, Piano, Guitar)
Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ
2002-2012
TV Series
Himself
Tetsuko no heya
2010
TV Series
Himself
Bokura no jidai
2010
TV Series
Himself
Dai 58 kai NHK Kôhaku uta gassen
2007
TV Special
Himself (as Gackt Camui)
Gackt Live Tour 2005: Diabolos - Aien no Shi to Seiya no Namida
2006
Video documentary
Himself - Vocals / Piano / Guitar on 'Mirror' / ... (as Gackt Camui)
Geinôjin kakuzuke check! 2012
2005
TV Series
Himself
Gackt Live Tour 2004: The Sixth Day and Seventh Night - Final
2004
Video documentary
Himself (Vocals, Piano, Shami-sen, Guitar on "Mirror") (as Gackt Camui)
Gackt Live Tour 2003: Jougen no Tsuki - Saishu-Shou
2003
Video documentary
Himself (Vocals, Piano)
Gackt live tour 2001: Requiem et réminiscence
2001
Video documentary
Himself (Vocals, Piano, Guitar on "Mirror") (as Gackt Camui)
Dômoto kyôdai
2001
TV Series
Himself
Gackt Live Tour 2000: Mars sora kara no houmonsha/Visitor from the Sky - La réminiscence
$500,000
