Kōji Kikkawa

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Kōji was born in Hiroshima and his music career began on February 1, 1984, with "Monica" (later remade in Cantonese sung by Leslie Cheung) and he won eight 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, when it was announced that Complex had disbanded.

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 portrayed Sokichi Narumi/Kamen Rider Skull in the Kamen Rider W franchise from 2009 to 2010, and sung "Nobody's Perfect," Skull's theme.

In 2011, Kōji and Tomoyasu Hotei reunited as Complex for two concerts at the Tokyo Dome to benefit victims of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The duo had not performed together as Complex for almost 21 years.

In 2024, 13 years later, Kikkawa and Hotei reunited again for another Complex benefit concert at the Tokyo Dome, this time to benefit the victims of the 2024 Noto earthquake.

In 2025, Kikkawa formed the unit Ooochie Koochie with Tamio Okuda.[2]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1984 Sukanpin Walk Yuji Tamikawa Lead role
1985 You Gotta Chance Yuji Tamikawa Lead role
1986 Take It Easy Yuji Tamikawa Lead role
1988 Shatterer Koichi Honda Lead role
2000 The City of Lost Souls Fushimi
The Guys from Paradise Kōhei Hayasaka Lead role
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 [3]
Wararaifu!! Shuichi's Dad
Sword of Desperation Hayatonosho Obiya
2012 Rurouni Kenshin Udō Jin-e [4]
2015 Blowing in the Winds of Vietnam Himself [5]
2016 Dangerous Cops: Final 5 Days Kyoichi Garcia [6]
The Top Secret: Murder in Mind Kiyotaka Kainuma [7]
2019 A Town and a Tall Chimney Yoshinosuke Kihara [8]
2023 Kingdom 3: The Flame of Destiny Pang Nuan [9]
2024 Doraemon: Nobita's Earth Symphony Maestro Vento (voice) [10]
Kingdom 4: Return of the Great General Pang Nuan [11]
2025 Trillion Game: The Movie Kazuki Kedōin [12]

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2009 Tenchijin Oda Nobunaga Taiga drama [13]
2010 Kamen Rider W Sokichi Narumi
Sunao ni Narenakute Ryōsuke Nakajima
2013 Yae's Sakura Saigō Takamori Taiga drama [14]
Gifū Dōdō!! Kanetsugu to Keiji Narrator
2015–18 Downtown Rocket Michio Zaizen 2 seasons [15]
2017–18 Guardian of the Spirit Jiguro
2018 Black Lecture Hall's Rokubee Rokubee Montoya Lead role [16]
2019 MAGI Tensho Keno Shonen Shisetsu Oda Nobunaga [13]
2020 Detective Yuri Rintaro Yuri Rintaro Lead role [17]
2022 DCU: Deep Crime Unit Atsushi Nariai [18]
2022–23 Maiagare! Mamoru Ōkōchi Asadora [19]
2023 Trillion Game Kazuki Kedōin [20]
2024 Acma: Game Seiji Oda [21]

Music video

Year Title Notes Ref.
2002 Pandoora

References

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