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
Born	Hiroshima, Japan
Genres	J-pop kayōkyoku rock
Occupation(s)	Singer musician actor
Instruments	guitar
Years active	1984–present
Labels	SMS Records (1984–1988) Toshiba EMI (1989–1996) Polydor (1997–1999) kitty mme (2000) Tokuma Japan (2002–2008) Universal Music Japan (2009–2012) Warner Music Japan (2012–present)
Associated acts	Complex
Website	www.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

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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
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
2002	Pandoora

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.

External links

• Official site (in Japanese)
• Kōji Kikkawa at IMDb