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{{Infobox song

| name = Kinku

| cover = Akina Nakamori - Kinku.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Akina Nakamori

| album = Best Akina Memoires

| language = Japanese

| English_title = Forbidden Zone

| B-side = Ame no Requiem

| released =

| recorded = 1983

| studio =

| genre =

| length = 3:48

| label = Reprise Records

| composer = Haruomi Hosono

| lyricist = Masao Urino

| producer = Yoshiaki Tanaka

| prev_title = Twilight (Ygure Dayori)

| prev_year = 1983

| next_title = Kita Wing

| next_year = 1984

| misc =

}}

is the sixth single by Japanese entertainer Akina Nakamori. Written by Masao Urino and Haruomi Hosono, the single was released on September 7, 1983, by Warner Pioneer through the Reprise label. It was also the third single from her first greatest hits album 'Best Akina Memoires'.

Background



Nakamori performed the song on the 34th 'Khaku Uta Gassen', making her debut on NHK's New Year's Eve special. In 2010, she re-recorded the song for the pachinko machine .

Chart performance



"Kinku" became Nakamori's third No. 1 on Oricon's weekly singles chart and sold over 511,000 copies.

Track listing



Charts



Cover versions



* Pai Bing-bing covered the song on her 1984 album 'Zuxn dngyng jnq' (). Her version is a mix of Taiwanese, Mandarin, and Japanese.

* Hong Kong singer Sara Lee covered the song in Cantonese as "Lin'i rxin" (, "Love Hotline") on her 1985 album 'Gobi llru' (, 'Farewell to Li Lirui').

* Leslie Cheung covered the song in Cantonese as "D y c" (, "The First Time") on his 1985 album 'Wi ni zhngqng' (, 'My Love for You'). He also covered it in Mandarin as "Biq mngyn" (, "Betrayal of Fate") on his 1986 Taiwan album 'Yngxing bns dngnin qng' (, 'The True Nature of the Hero') and Mandarin-language Hong Kong album 'im' (, 'Love').

* Morio Agata covered the song on his 1993 cover album 'Imitation Gold'.

References




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