GACKT
Actor/Actriz
35
Movies
11
TV Shows
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).
As Actor/Actress
屍鬼
Seishirō Kirishiki (voice)
風林火山
新・北斗の拳
Seiji (voice)
Mr.Brain
Trickster -江戸川乱歩「少年探偵団」より-
Kaijin Nijuu Mensou (voice)
Bunraku
Yoshi
テンペスト
Jyo Teigai
悪夢ちゃん
Shiki Takashi/Yumeoji
Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker
Jôji Yûki
Japan's Got Talent
タイムスパイラル
Shuya Tatsumi
BLUE FIGHT 蒼き若者たちのブレイキングダウン
翔んで埼玉
Rei Asami
新・北斗の拳 - 呪縛の街
Seiji
Gackt Live Tour 上弦の月 最終章 完全版
Self
戦国BASARA -MOONLIGHT PARTY-
Oda Nobunaga
ムーンチャイルド
Sho
もしも徳川家康が総理大臣になったら
Nobunaga Oda
新・暴れん坊将軍
Tokugawa Muneharu
悪夢ちゃん The 夢ovie
Takashi Shiki
翔んで埼玉 ~琵琶湖より愛をこめて~
Moon Saga 義経秘伝
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
MARS 空からの訪問者~回想~特別編
マリスミゼル: Sans Retour Voyage "Derniere" ~encoure une fois~
Self
カーラヌカン
マリスミゼル: merveilles ~終焉と帰趨~ l'espace
Self - Vocals, Piano
ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2016 A 〜M(A)DE IN JAPAN〜
Self
Gackt Live Tour 2004THE SIXTH DAY & SEVENTH NIGHT~FINAL~
Self
マリスミゼル: merveilles ~cinq parallele~
Self
Moon Saga 義経秘伝 Chapter 2
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Behind the Camera
Kamen Rider
Theme Song Performance
機動戦士Ζガンダム A New Translation 星を継ぐ者
Theme Song Performance
Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Double & Decade: Movie War 2010
Theme Song Performance
Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker
Theme Song Performance
機動戦士ZガンダムIII A New Translation 星の鼓動は愛
Theme Song Performance
機動戦士ZガンダムII A New Translation 恋人たち
Theme Song Performance
ムーンチャイルド
Escritor, Compositor
Moon Saga 義経秘伝
Music, Escritor, Director
マリスミゼル: merveilles ~終焉と帰趨~ l'espace
Songs
Gackt Live Tour 2004THE SIXTH DAY & SEVENTH NIGHT~FINAL~
Productor
Moon Saga 義経秘伝 Chapter 2
Music, Escritor, Director
Gackt Live Tour 2002: Kagen no Tsuki ~Seiya no shirabe~
Productor