Filmography
Gackt’s introduction in the filmmaking, besides music videos, came in 2001 and 2002 with the two TV documentaries Fly to Madagascar and Hero’s Hero.
In 2003, he worked on the script and starred in his film Moon Child. It was released on April 19 in Japan, and screened on May 13 at the Cannes Film Festival and on April 12, 2004 at Philadelphia Film Festival. He voiced Seiji in the original video animation New Fist of the North Star, for which two of his older songs were used as themes and released as a single. Gackt also assisted as a model, provided the voice, and the motion capture for a main character in the video game Bujingai by Taito Corporation and Red Entertainment.
His next involment was in 2006, with the Final Fantasy VII franchise, for a video game Dirge of Cerberus, where a character Genesis Rhapsodos was modeled and voiced by him, and again in 2007 for a video game Crisis Core. Besides that, Gackt composed and performed two theme songs for the first game, and were released as a single.
In 2007, Gackt played the Sengoku period daimyo Uesugi Kenshin at the NHK Taiga drama Fūrin Kazan, for which received the TV Navi award for best supporting actor in drama category. His only topping single "Returner (Yami no Shūen)" title song was the theme for the TV series. He was also the voice actor in the Japanese version of the French/American animated-live action film Arthur and the Minimoys. In the first part of 2008, he starred in his first international film debut, Bunraku, which was released in 2010. The next year (2009) he appeared as a prisoner on death row in the second episode of the TV series Mr. Brain, and the film Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker.
In 2010, he was the voice actor in several occasions. For the film Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard, the anime series Shiki, his first regular voice cast role, and Tono to Issho, where provided the voice for the previous daimyo, and for the two video games Dragon Nest, for which composed and performed the theme song "Ever", and Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs.. In 2011, he was the voice actor for sequel of Tono to Issho, anime series Supernatural: The Animation (episode 21 first season), and Sket Dance for which also performed its theme "Graffiti", and TV drama Tempest. He is also a voice actor for the animated film Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker.
In 2012, Gackt appeared in the Sengoku Basara television drama Sengoku Basara: Moonlight Party as the games' depiction of warlord Oda Nobunaga. He also performed the series' theme song "Hakuro" (42th single). He will also be seen in a dual role as a Professor of Neurology "Shiki Takashi" & "Yumeoji" (literally translated "Dream Prince) in the upcoming drama "Akumu-chan", which is based on the novel "Yume Chigai" by Onda Riku.
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