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吉川晃司 | |
| Born | August 18, 1965 |
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| Years active | 1984–present |
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| Website | www |
Kōji Kikkawa (吉川 晃司, Kikkawa Kōji, born August 18, 1965) is a Japanese musician. His most recent album is 2016's Wild Lips.[1]
Kōji was born in Hiroshima and his music career began on February 1, 1984 with "Monica" (later remade in Cantonese sung by Leslie Cheung) and he won eight music awards in the same year. After taking a short break in 1988, he came back as a lead singer in the band Complex with Tomoyasu Hotei (former guitarist of Boøwy) and "Be My Baby" was released. Complex remained as one of the most popular bands in Japan until 1990.
After "Complex", Kōji released series of hit singles such as "Setsunasa O Korosenai", "Kiss Ni Utarete Nemuritai" and "Boy's Life". Kōji completed a "20th Anniversary Tour" at Budokan on February 1, 2005.
In 2006 he recorded "One World," the theme for the 2006 motion picture Kamen Rider Kabuto: God Speed Love. More recently, he had teamed up with popular Japanese DJ TWINS to release a single "Juicy Jungle". Also, DJ TWINS had released an album with remixes of several of Kōji's previous hits.
With this new sound-disco revisit, Kōji redefined himself like he does year after year. Throughout all his career, it could be considered that Kōji had outgrown from an idol to an artiste that explore the music boundary. He writes his own songs, produced and arranged his own albums and also played most of the instruments in it. He had just released a remix album of his old hits-titled-DISCO K2. In April 2007, a new single "BABY JANE" was released.
He portrays Sokichi Narumi/Kamen Rider Skull for the Kamen Rider W franchise, and sung "Nobody's Perfect," Skull's theme.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1984 | Sukanpin Walk | Yuji Tamikawa | |
| 1988 | Shatterer | Koichi Honda | |
| 2000 | The City of Lost Souls | Fushimi | |
| 2000 | The Guys from Paradise | Kōhei Hayasaka | |
| 2004 | Lady Joker | Shuhei Handa | |
| 2005 | Until the Lights Come Back | Gingi | |
| 2007 | Three for the Road | Seijuro | |
| 2008 | The Glorious Team Batista | Kyoichi Kiryu | |
| 2009 | Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010 | Sokichi Narumi | |
| 2010 | Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W Featuring Skull: Movie War Core | Sokichi Narumi | |
| 2010 | Wararaifu!! | Shuichi's Dad | |
| 2010 | Sword of Desperation | Hayatonosho Obiya | |
| 2012 | Rurouni Kenshin | Udō Jin-e | |
| 2015 | Blowing in the Winds of Vietnam | Himself | |
| 2016 | Saraba Abunai Deka | Kyoichi Garcia | |
| 2016 | Himitsu – Top Secret | Kiyotaka Kainuma | |
| 2019 | A Town and a Tall Chimney | Yoshinosuke Kihara | [2] |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2009 | Tenchijin | Oda Nobunaga | |
| 2010 | Kamen Rider W | Sokichi Narumi | |
| 2010 | Sunao ni Narenakute | Ryōsuke Nakajima | |
| 2013 | Yae no Sakura | Saigō Takamori | |
| 2013 | Gifū Dōdō!! Kanetsugu to Keiji | Narrator | |
| 2015 | Downtown Rocket | Michio Zaizen | |
| 2017–18 | Guardian of the Spirit | Jiguro | |
| 2018 | Kuroshoin no Rokubei | Rokubei | |
| 2018 | Black Lecture Hall's Rokubee | Rokubee Montoya | |
| 2019 | Magi | Oda Nobunaga | |
| 2020 | Detective Yuri Rintaro | Yuri Rintaro | [3] |
Music video
| Year | Title |
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| 2002 | Pandoora |
References
- ^ "Wild Lips". K2 Net Cast: Kikkawa Koji Official Web Site. Axcel Music Entertainment Inc. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
- ^ "キャスト - 映画『ある町の高い煙突』公式サイト". takaientotsu.jp. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
- ^ "志尊淳、吉川晃司とバディに 「由利麟太郎」シリーズを初連ドラ化". mdpr.jp. May 14, 2020. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
External links
- Official site (in Japanese)
- Kōji Kikkawa at IMDb
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- Japanese male film actors
- Japanese male television actors
- Japanese male pop singers
- Japanese male rock singers
- Japanese male singer-songwriters
- Japanese singer-songwriters
- Japanese rock guitarists
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Actors from Hiroshima Prefecture
- Musicians from Hiroshima Prefecture
- 20th-century Japanese guitarists
- 20th-century Japanese male actors
- 20th-century Japanese singers
- 20th-century male singers
- 21st-century Japanese guitarists
- 21st-century Japanese male actors
- 21st-century Japanese singers
- 21st-century male singers