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We Are X is a 2016 documentary film about the Japanese rock band X Japan and its co-founder, drummer, pianist and leader Yoshiki. Directed by Stephen Kijak, it premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on January 23. The film covers the history of the band, their influence on Japanese music and society, the band's break up in 1997 and ...
Toshimitsu Deyama (Japanese: 出山 利三, Hepburn: Deyama Toshimitsu, born October 10, 1965), known exclusively by his stage name Toshi, [Note 1] is a Japanese singer and songwriter who is the lead vocalist and a co-founder of the rock band X Japan, who rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s and is credited as founders of the visual kei movement.
X Japan headlined all three nights of the Visual Japan Summit on October 14–16, 2016 at Makuhari Messe. [144] The We Are X soundtrack album was released on March 3, 2017. [145] The soundtrack reached No. 4 in its first week in the Oricon Albums Chart, [146] No. 27 in the UK Albums Chart, [147] and No. 1 in the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart. [148]
When X Japan first came to America in the 1980s, they “spoke zero English” and Toshi sang almost entirely in Japanese. “We [knew we were at] a disadvantage, because we were Asian,” Yoshiki ...
The surviving members of X Japan, Yoshiki, guitarist Pata and bassist Heath, reunited with Toshi and made their first public appearance on October 22, 2007, on the rooftop of the shopping center Aqua City in Odaiba, Tokyo, to film a music video for a new song, "I.V.". [6]
Numerous times during a pause in a performance of the track a band member, usually vocalist Toshi, will yell "We are..." and the audience responds with "X!" before the musicians start the last leg of the song. [6] This was used as the title to the 2016 documentary film about the group, We Are X. On November 21, 1993, SME Records released X² ...
We Are X is the 2017 soundtrack album to the documentary film We Are X, containing a compilation of songs by Japanese heavy metal band X Japan. It was released on March 3, 2017 by Sony Music's Legacy Recordings. In the first week of the release of the album it reached No. 4 in Japan's Oricon Albums Chart. [1]
It is the band's last single released under the name X and the last to feature Taiji on bass. The B-side is a live version of " Silent Jealousy ", recorded on November 12, 1991, at Yokohama Arena . Both songs were originally featured on the album Jealousy .