Koji Tamaki
Also Known As: Kôji Tamaki, 玉置 浩二
Biography: Kōji Tamaki (玉置 浩二, Tamaki Kōji, born September 13, 1958) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and actor. He has been well known as frontman of the rock band Anzen Chitai that debuted in 1982 and enjoyed a successful career, particularly during the 1980s. In the 1990s, he also began his career as a solo artist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Japanese vocalists. In 2014, he was ranked first by a panel of 200 experts for the best ever singing voice in Japan. Moreover, in 2021 Koji was voted as the greatest active male Japanese singer, with 190 experts agreeing that he is a "living national treasure of music" and that he portrays an "unparalleled mass of expressiveness and emotion which only seems to get better with age". As a vocalist and a songwriter of the band, Tamaki spawned multiple successful compositions which were mostly co-written by lyricists including Gorō Matsui and Yōsui Inoue, by the time that the group suspended their career in 1993. In 1987, Tamaki released the first solo single "All I Do", and continued his solo career after Anzen Chitai went into hiatus (1993–2001, 2004–2009). Throughout his solo career, he has released 23 singles and over a dozen studio albums. His song "Den-En" released as a single in 1996 became a massive hit, which reached the number-two on the Japanese Oricon charts and sold in excess of 900,000 copies. Tamaki has also been known as an actor who has appeared in seven feature films and numerous television dramas. He has started acting career for the first time on "Prussian Blue no Shozo", the 1986 motion picture he starred. Anzen Chitai returned from a recess and released their new single "Aoi Bara/Wine Red no Kokoro (2010 version)" on March 3, 2010. On his 2012 album Offer Music Box, Tamaki — who composed the original song — covered Yuki Saito's song "Kanashimi yo Konnichi wa", which was used as the first theme song for the anime television series Maison Ikkoku.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Asahikawa, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan
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Birthday: September 13, 1958
Age: 66 years old
Gender: Male
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The Last Bullet
Overview: Set during WWII, an Australian and Japanese soldier play a deadly game of Cat and mouse in a South Pacific Jungle.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-05
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Chocolate cosmos〜恋の思い出、切ない恋心〜
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-08-18
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Anzenchitai 30th Anniversary Concert Tour Encore 'The Saltmoderate Show'
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-27
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安全地帯 IN 甲子園球場 「さよならゲーム」
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-19
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玉置浩二 Concert Tour 2021 故郷楽団～Chocolate cosmos
Overview: Tamaki Koji's singing illuminates the desolate world and wraps people's hearts tenderly. November 22, 2021/Tokyo International Forum
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-02
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Koji Tamaki Live In Zepp Tokyo
Overview: DVD release of footage from Kouji Tamaki's acclamied concert series "Kyo to Iu Kono Hi wo Ikitei Iko" recored at his encore performance at Zepp Tokyo on June 14 (contains different footage from that shown on the Wowow TV broadcase on July 25) Special Features: Special Interview & Performance in OHGA HALL(Karuizawa) (All product details, including availability, images, language(s), special features, and bonus extras, are subject to change without prior notice. Actual item weight may be different from the one indicated above.)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-01
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billboard classics PREMIUM SYMPHONIC CONCERT 2021
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Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-12-08
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The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994
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Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-05-20
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Love Has Fallen
Overview: A man's soul (he is in a coma) must make a lonely woman happy or he will die on Christmas day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-17
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Lost in Time
Overview: A story of friendship between two women, Yae and Kiyoko. Their friendship is tested when artist Yae, who suffers from fatal illness, develops special feelings towards her best friend Kiyoko’s boyfriend Kosuke.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-20
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Many Happy Returns
Overview: Kazuo encounters a religious group travelling around Japan performing "miracles". He discovers they are fakes, but is intrigued by the showmanship of the group, and becomes involved with them. The group is split into two, some members concentrating on spiritual teachings, and the others using the facade of religion to make money. The business faction dismiss the old spiritual master and choose Kazuo to lead their group.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-11-20
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I'm Dandy
Overview: A middle-aged salaryman tries to revitalize his career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-08-12
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Some Kinda Love
Overview: The life of a urban planning official and that of an old fellow student, now project developer, are turned upside down by a chance encounter with a beauty obsessed by UFOs.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-25
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Wild Side
Overview: In four chapters, the film anatomises the chaotic life of a radio agony uncle.who is having simultaneous affairs with a sado-masochistic call-girl and the wife of an aggrieved tour-bus driver
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-10-30
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The Drive
Overview: Kono Takeshi has given up work as an electrician to run a gift-shop business with his partner/mistress Rieko, who's a couple of years older than him. When the company faces bankruptcy Kono wants to quit, but Rieko strings him along with the promise of a large cash investment, the proceeds of a real-estate deal. Her actual plan to raise the money is to kidnap a young woman and demand a ransom for her release. The trouble is, it never occurs to her to keep the victim alive before trying to extort the cash. And when things start to go wrong, Rieko responds by murdering another girl and attempting another ransom scam..
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-26
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Just Two Of Us
Overview: The love that occurs 24 hours after a man and woman in their 20s meet against the backdrop of the bubble period.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-02
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Deadman Inferno
Overview: Hiroya Munakata is the leader of the yakuza group Munakata-gumi. After 10 years since the big fight, Hiroya Munakata's non blood-related younger brother Takashi is released from prison, but Takashi’s daughter, Hyuga says she does not want to meet her father and runs away from home. Hiroya, Takashi and Hiroya’s subordinate Shinya go to Zeni Island where Hyuga is headed to. Something they never expected is waiting for them.
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-16
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安全地帯 ALL TIME BEST「35」~35TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR 2017~LIVE IN 日本武道館
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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Portrait in Prussian Blue
Overview: Fuyuhana, is bullied child at school, because she was not able to speak until recently. This was due to the accidental death of one of her classmates, a few years ago. And now she is haunted by the secrets of the old school.
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-26
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Koji Tamaki '06「PRESENT」Tour Live
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Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2006-06-30
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