Gackt - Until the Last Day

Military Rescue Mission

It took a while to find the right bunch of clips to make this video.
http://www.dvidshub.net  http://www.marines.mil and the movie Four Lions provided a lot of videos clips for me to use.

Enjoy

Military Rescue Operation by melmika1

Gackt at Sendai

On March 1st, GACKT held a surprise live during a graduation ceremony at Tohoku High School Komatsushima Campus in Sendai. (story link here)

GACKT called out to the 247 graduates, “As you leave this place, I want you to become a person who will be able to push the backs of other people. With these feelings, I will gift my song.”

After singing the graduation song, “No ni Saku Hana no You ni“, GACKT expressed, “Dreams aren’t something you see. Dreams are something you fulfill. I am looking forward to your futures! Congratulations on graduating!”

Tohoku High School has a reputation of nurturing athletes, as some of their alumni include professional baseball player Darvish Yu and female golfer Miyazato Ai. The teachers asked GACKT to sing for the ceremony as they felt he would give the graduates the power to step forward.

Gackt, who is a member of YELLOW FRIED CHICKENz, released their new PV for the song また、ここで逢いましょッ (Let's Meet Here Again).

The song is dedicated to victims of 3.11 and was shot in Sendai.

YELLOW FRIED CHICKENz - Mata, Koko de Aimasho PV (FULL) from Masa2 on Vimeo.

Gackt - Until The Last Day

“UNTIL THE LAST DAY” is the theme song for the CG anime film, “Dragon Age -Blood Mage no Seisen-“. The film is based on the popular RPG game, “Dragon Age: Origins“, and is directed by Sori Fumihiko. GACKT, Kuriyama Chiaki, and Tanihara Shosuke provided their voices for the characters in the film.

Arlington National Cemetery

I hope the song and pictures can convey the message of the sacrifice our servicemen have made. These images can be found at the Arlington National Cemetery.

Gackt - Graffiti - full version

GACKT 「Graffiti」Short Ver.

Boryeong Mud Festival 2011

The Boryeong Mud Festival is an annual festival which takes place during the summer in Boryeong, a town around 200 km south of Seoul, South Korea. The first Mud Festival was staged in 1998 and by now the festival attracts over 3 million visitors to Boryeong.

The mud is taken from the Boryeong mud flats, and trucked to the Daecheon beach area, where it is used as the centerpiece of the 'Mud Experience Land'. The mud is considered rich in minerals and used to manufacture cosmetics. The festival was originally conceived as a marketing vehicle for Boryeong mud cosmetics.

Although the festival takes place over a period of around two weeks, it is most famous for its final weekend, which is popular with Korea's western population. The final weekend of the festival usually falls on the second weekend in July.

In 1996 a range of cosmetics was produced using mud from the Boryeong mud flats. The cosmetics were said to be full of minerals, bentonites, and germaniums, all of which occur naturally in the mud from the area.

In order to promote these cosmetics, the Boryeong Mud Festival was conceived. Through this festival, it was hoped people would learn more about the mud and the cosmetics. The festival has become popular with Koreans and western tourists, as well as American Military personnel stationed in the country, and foreign English teachers working in Korea.

For the period of the festival several large attractions are erected in the seafront area of Daecheon. These include a mud pool, mud slides, mud prison and mud skiing competitions. Colored mud is also produced for body painting. A large stage is erected on the beach, which is used for live music, competitions and various other visual attractions.

A small market runs along the seafront selling cosmetics made using the mud from Boryeong. Various health and beauty clinics offer massages, acupuncture and other treatments utilizing the medicinal qualities of the mud.

The festival closes with a large firework display.

CLAMP, GACKT Collaborate on Moon Saga Stage Play, Manga

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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.

Before the play opens, there will be a manga series in a Kodansha manga magazine. The producers are then planning to develop the project into anime, game, film, and other venues.

LUCIE LUKE: [LIVE REPORT] GACKT YELLOW FRIED CHICKENZ WORLD TO...

LUCIE LUKE: [LIVE REPORT] GACKT YELLOW FRIED CHICKENZ WORLD TO...: Revamped, but not too much.

Gackt - Military Love Letter (English subtitle)

A slideshow of our servise men and women in love. The song is called 'Love Letter' by Gackt

Gackt Military Homecoming - subtitled

Military Homecoming subtitled by melmika1 Using the song 12gatsu no Love Song by Gackt, to create a slideshow of our servicemen and women coming home.

Okinawan Gekijoban Tempest Movie

Original article here or here

Yukie Nakama

“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. 

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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. 

Gackt as Ghost Rider?

What would a Japanese Ghost Rider look like?

GACKT marches at “Kenshin Festival”

GACKT appeared as a guest for the “Kenshin Festival” that took place on August 20th and 21st at Jouetsu City in Niigata. Original story here.

 The “Kenshin Festival” is held every year to honor the bravery and influence of the warlord, Uesugi Kenshin of the Sengoku Period. On August 20th, GACKT held “GACKT Live Message Ima Koso Tsutaeru ‘Gi no Kokoro’“, and shared his thoughts about the restoration from the Great Tohoku Earthquake saying, “The will to cooperate, that is Bushido (the code of Samurai), and is the ‘heart of righteousness’ that Kenshin conveyed.”

Additionally, on August 21st, GACKT also participated in the “Shutsujin Gyouretsu”. Wearing an armor on a white horse, GACKT Kenshin led about 700 people around the town, and revived theKawanakajima Battle at Kasugayama-jou Shiseki Hiroba.

 GACKT commented, “This Kenshin Festival is different from before, and holds a great meaning. After the disaster, many people recognized that the ‘heart of righteousness’ symbolizes the beauty of Japanese people’s hearts. What is the identity and qualities of Japanese people?”

 He continued, “Instead of the rational ‘which will profit’ way of thinking; the presence and acts of the right at heart, as well as the spiritual strength is what makes Japanese people wonderful. I think we were able to deliver those thoughts. From now on, I want to continue delivering my thoughts as a Japanese, and as a samurai.”

GACKT - Episode.0 Live (with English Lyrics)

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!

Gackt - Bunraku

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.

A Soldiers' Letter - English subtitles

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/


A Soldiers' Letter - English subtitles by melmika1

A Soldiers' Letter

A video I made using Windows Live Movie Maker. The Artist is Gackt. The name of the song is called Suddenly.


A Soldiers Letter by melmika1

GACKT - Episode.0 (Full Version)

[PV] GACKT - Episode.0 (Full Version) [HDTV] by wonderful-life1989

Episode.0 (Words and music by Mathru)

そう俺は夢を掴む者　

Yes, I live to seize my dreams

野望のため刀を赤く染める

With ambitions, I drench my sword in crimson.

戦国の世が世であるから何を犠牲にしても天下を取る

In this world of Sengoku, I’ll take the country no matter what the sacrifice

何もかも省みずに故郷の母にも手紙書けず

No time for regrets, not even time to write to Mother back home

己の未熟さを知り　気付けば体は血に染まった

I learned my own callowness, and before I knew it my body was soaked in blood

残酷な戦の痕　俺たちは破れた人

With scars from the cruel battles

We find ourselves defeated

敗者には救いさえもなく　無情に雨は降り注ぐ

Nothing left for losers, not even salvation

Mercilessly, rain keeps falling down on us

墓標に夢は露と散る

On our tombs, our dreams scatter away like dews

遠く向こうから聴こえてくる優しく悲しい旋律

A gentle and sad melody from afar

少女が何処かで歌ってるようだ

I hear a girl singing from somewhere

透き通った声が響きわたる

Her crystal voice fills the air

ふと涙零れ落ちた

Suddenly I shed a tear

故郷が思い浮かんだ

A vision of home appeared in my mind

歌声が僕に気付かせた

Her singing made me realize...

平穏が一番大切だと

That the most precious thing is peace

もし生まれかわれるなら

If I can be reborn

この声の少女のように

I want to exist like this girl

歌声で人を救えるような存在になりたいと思うんだ

Who has a singing voice that heals

今の俺がそうであるように

Just like I am [being freed] right now

誰かの重荷を外せたなら

If I could free someone from their burden

嗚呼

Oh...