The manga creator quartet CLAMP drafted the Moon Saga
Yoshitsune Hiden (Moon Saga: The Secret of Yoshitsune) stage play with singer
Gackt in the lead role, and the play will run in Tokyo, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and
Osaka between July 15 and August 26 of next year.
Gackt will play the title role of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, a
general who was critical to the Genpei War that inspired the literary classic
Heike Monogatari (Tale of the Heike). The play's version of Yoshitsune will
possess strange powers.
“Gekijoban Tempest 3D” is scheduled to open in theaters on January 28, 2012
The NHK historical drama “Tempest” is going to get a 3-D
movie in theaters next year. Nakama Yukie will remain in the starring role,
along with fellow cast members such as Tanihara Shosuke, Tsukamoto Takashi,
Takaoka Saki, GACKT, and Okuda Eiji. Amuro Namie’s song “Tempest” will be the theme song.
The Tempest, based on a 2008 best-seller novel with the same title authored by Ikegami Eiichi. The Tempest sets in the period towards the end of Ryukyu Kingdom dynasty (a kingdom that ruled most Okinawa islands from the 15th to 19th century). Nakama Yukie will be playing the leading character, Mazuru, a common young girl in the kingdom who feels unfairness treatment towards women. She feel it is unfair that woman cannot complete their study.
Gackt
And so, taking advantage of the disappearance of her step brother, she disguises as man named Son Neion, and passed the exam to be the royal govenrment's official. Yamamoto Koji will be playing the role of Mazuru's love interest, whom Mazuru will have a forbidden romance with. Namase Katsuhisa will be playing the role of Son Neion's enemy in the royal palace. The drama series currently airs on NHK BS-Premium and will end on September 18. The movie is reported to be a two-and-a-half-hour edit of
the drama series, with no plans for new footage to be shot.
A Japanese show called Coming Soon!! interviewed Gackt. Afterwards he sang a condense version of his new song "Episode.0".
English Lyrics:
Yes, I am one who seizes their dreams, I stain my sword red for my ambitions Because this is a world of warring states, I will take the earth no matter what I have to sacrifice1
I reflected on nothing, I wrote no letters even to my mother in my hometown When I came to know my own immaturity, my body was stained in blood
The scars of a cruel battle We are the defeated There is not even salvation for the vanquished The rain pours down heartlessly
Our dreams scatter as dew on our gravestones
As I head far away, the sound comes to me A gentle, sad melody
It's like a young girl is singing somewhere A crystal clear voice resounds
Suddenly, my tears welled up and fell Thoughts of my hometown floated up That voice made me realise that peace is most important
If I can be reborn like the girl who sang with that voice I want to become someone who can save people with my song
If I were able to take someone's burdens away as mine are taken now, Ah!
Bunraku is an upcoming 2011 computer-animated live action
fantasy that revolves around a "Man with No Name" stock character
known as 'The Drifter'. Directed by Guy Moshe from his own script, the title of
the film is based on a 400-year-old form of Japanese Puppet Theater, a style of
storytelling that uses 4-foot (1.2 m)-tall puppets with highly detailed heads,
each operated by several puppeteers who blend into the background wearing black
robes and hoods.
This classic tale is re-imagined in an entirely fresh visual
context, set in a unique world that mixes skewed reality with shadow-play
fantasy. The world of Bunraku is fantasy and reality, Samurai and Western all
combined.
The casting of the Japanese rock star came as a surprise
even to him. Although Gackt Camui has starred in Japanese television drama and
feature films, Bunraku is his first acting experience in an
international-flavored movie to date. The involvement of the Japanese artist
was officially announced on April 23, 2008. Gackt came to the attention of
director Guy Moshe through his role in the 2007 television historic drama Fūrin
Kazan, a year-long series produced by NHK. In this series, he portrayed the
heroic warlord Uesugi Kenshin, winning him accolades, not only for his acting
performance, but also for the single Returner ~Yami no Shūen~ and the video for
the same that were inspired by his role. Moshe went to Japan to entice Gackt to
join the project.
I fixed the subtitles but I found out that I miss-spelled the word farewell in the video. In all a pretty good video on trying to get more people to write and send care packages to our servicemen serving so far away from home. http://www.uso.org/ http://www.productsforgood.com/
