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Kōji Kikkawa (吉川 晃司, Kikkawa Kōji, born August 18, 1965) is a Japanese musician. His most recent album is 2016's Wild Lips.[1]

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Kōji Kikkawa
吉川晃司
Born	(1965-08-18) August 18, 1965 (age 57) Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan
Occupation	Singer musician actor
Years active	1984–present
Musical career
Genres	J-pop kayōkyoku rock
Instrument(s)	Vocals guitar
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)
Musical artist
Website	www.kikkawa.com

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.

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	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		[2]
	Wararaifu!!	Shuichi's Dad
	Sword of Desperation	Hayatonosho Obiya
2012	Rurouni Kenshin	Udō Jin-e
2015	Blowing in the Winds of Vietnam	Himself		[3]
2016	Saraba Abunai Deka	Kyoichi Garcia		[4]
	The Top Secret: Murder in Mind	Kiyotaka Kainuma		[5]
2019	A Town and a Tall Chimney	Yoshinosuke Kihara		[6]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2009	Tenchijin	Oda Nobunaga	Taiga drama
2010	Kamen Rider W	Sokichi Narumi
	Sunao ni Narenakute	Ryōsuke Nakajima
2013	Yae's Sakura	Saigō Takamori	Taiga drama
	Gifū Dōdō!! Kanetsugu to Keiji	Narrator
2015–18	Downtown Rocket	Michio Zaizen	2 seasons	[7]
2017–18	Guardian of the Spirit	Jiguro
2018	Black Lecture Hall's Rokubee	Rokubee Montoya	Lead role	[8]
2019	MAGI Tensho Keno Shonen Shisetsu	Oda Nobunaga
2020	Detective Yuri Rintaro	Yuri Rintaro	Lead role	[9]
2022	DCU: Deep Crime Unit	Atsushi Nariai		[10]
2022–23	Maiagare!	Mamoru Ōkōchi	Asadora	[11]

Music video

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
2002	Pandoora

References

External links

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

Preceded by The Good-Bye, Sayuri Iwai, Yasuko Kuwata	Shinjuku Music Festival for Gold Prize 1984 (with : Yukiko Okada)	Succeeded by Shigeyuki Nakamura, Minako Honda

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