
GACKT
Known for ActingBorn 1973-07-04 (age 52)Okinawa, Japan
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).Read more
Movies & web series
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Sengoku Basara - Moonlight Party
2012 · Series
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Gackt Live Tour 2000 MARS ~Visitor from the Sky: La réminiscence~
2000 · Movie
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MALICE MIZER: merveilles ~Shuuen to Kisuu~ l'espace
1998 · Movie
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New Abarenbō Shōgun
2025 · Movie
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Gackt Live Tour 2004 THE SIXTH DAY & SEVENTH NIGHT ~FINAL~
2004 · Movie
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MALICE MIZER: No Return Voyage "Final" ~one more time~
1997 · Movie
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Japan's Got Talent
2023 · Series
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MOON SAGA - Mysteries of Yoshitsune I
2012 · Movie
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Shiki
2010 · Series
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Gackt: The Greatest Filmography 1999-2006: Blue
2006 · Movie
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Gackt: The Greatest Filmography 1999-2006: Red
2006 · Movie
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Samurai Banners
2007 · Series
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MR.BRAIN
2009 · Series
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Time Spiral
2014 · Series
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My Little Nightmare
2012 · Series
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Fly Me to the Saitama
2019 · Movie
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My Little Nightmare: The Movie
2014 · Movie
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation I: Heirs to the Stars
2005 · Movie
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Trickster
2016 · Series
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Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010
2009 · Movie
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Fly Me to the Saitama: From Biwa Lake with Love
2023 · Movie
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation II: Lovers
2005 · Movie
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Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker
2009 · Movie
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New Fist of the North Star: The Cursed City
2003 · Movie
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation III: Love is the Pulse of the Stars
2006 · Movie
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Kamen Rider
1971 · Series
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Bunraku
2010 · Movie
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Moon Child
2003 · Movie
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
2006 · Movie
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New Fist of the North Star
2003 · Series
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The Tempest
2011 · Series
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What If Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa Was to Become the Prime Minister
2024 · Movie
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Blazing Fists
2025 · Movie
The Consultant
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The Consultant
2026 · Series

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GACKT 20th ANNIVERSARY LIVE TOUR 2020 KHAOS
2020 · Movie

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Karanukan
2017 · Movie

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ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2016 A 〜M(A)DE IN JAPAN〜
2016 · Movie

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Gackt X Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra Part II -A Splendid Evening of Classic-
2015 · Movie
MOON SAGA (Special Edition) -A Hot Blooded School Tale-
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MOON SAGA (Special Edition) -A Hot Blooded School Tale-
2015 · Movie

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Gackt X Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra -A Splendid Evening of Classic-
2014 · Movie

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MOON SAGA - Mysteries of Yoshitsune 2
2014 · Movie

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Gackt Live Tour 2003: Jougen no Tsuki ~Final Show~
2003 · Movie

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Gackt Live Tour 2002: Kagen no Tsuki ~Seiya no shirabe~
2003 · Movie

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Requiem and Reminiscence 〜The End and Silence〜
2001 · Movie

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Requiem et Reminiscence (Shuuen to Seijyaku)
2001 · Movie
裸にしたい男
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裸にしたい男
2001 · Series

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MALICE MIZER: merveilles ~cinq parallele~
1999 · Movie

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MALICE MIZER: Bel Air ~Kuuhaku no Toki no Naka de~ de l'image
1997 · Movie