Kōji Kikkawa

Kōji Kikkawa (吉川 晃司, Kikkawa Kōji, born August 18, 1965 in Hiroshima) is a Japanese musician. His most recent album is 2016's Wild Lips.[1]

Kōji Kikkawa
吉川晃司
BornHiroshima, Japan
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • musician
  • actor
Instrumentsguitar
Years active1984–present
Labels
Associated actsComplex
Websitewww.kikkawa.com

His music career began on February 1, 1984 with "Monica" (later remade in Cantonese sung by Leslie Cheung) and he won 8 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

YearTitleRoleNotes
1984Sukanpin WalkYuji Tamikawa
1988ShattererKoichi Honda
2000The City of Lost SoulsFushimi
2000The Guys from ParadiseKōhei Hayasaka
2004Lady JokerShuhei Handa
2005Until the Lights Come BackGingi
2007Three for the RoadSeijuro
2008The Glorious Team BatistaKyoichi Kiryu
2009Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010Sokichi Narumi
2010Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W Featuring Skull: Movie War CoreSokichi Narumi
2010Wararaifu!!Shuichi's Dad
2010Sword of DesperationHayatonosho Obiya
2012Rurouni KenshinUdō Jin-e
2015Blowing in the Winds of VietnamHimself
2016Saraba Abunai DekaKyoichi Garcia
2016Himitsu – Top SecretKiyotaka Kainuma
2019A Town and a Tall ChimneyYoshinosuke Kihara[2]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2009TenchijinOda Nobunaga
2010Kamen Rider WSokichi Narumi
2010Sunao ni NarenakuteRyōsuke Nakajima
2013Yae no SakuraSaigō Takamori
2013Gifū Dōdō!! Kanetsugu to KeijiNarrator
2015Downtown RocketMichio Zaizen
2017–18Guardian of the SpiritJiguro
2018Kuroshoin no RokubeiRokubei
2018Black Lecture Hall's RokubeeRokubee Montoya
2019MagiOda Nobunaga
2020Detective Yuri RintaroYuri Rintaro[3]

Music video

YearTitle
2002Pandoora

References

  1. "Wild Lips". K2 Net Cast: Kikkawa Koji Official Web Site. Axcel Music Entertainment Inc. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  2. "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.
  3. "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.
Preceded by
The Good-Bye, Sayuri Iwai, Yasuko Kuwata
Shinjuku Music Festival for Gold Prize
1984 (with : Yukiko Okada)
Succeeded by
Shigeyuki Nakamura, Minako Honda
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