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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Gekk
| cover = GekkoOnitsukaChihiro.jpg
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| type = single
| artist = Chihiro Onitsuka
| album = Insomnia
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| recorded = 2000
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| producer = Takefumi Haketa
| prev_title = Shine
| prev_year = 2000
| next_title = Cage
| next_year = 2000
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is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter Chihiro Onitsuka from her debut album 'Insomnia' (2000). It was released on August 9, 2000 as the album's second single. The song is mostly known for serving as a theme song to the Japanese television drama series 'Trick'. The single peaked at number eleven on the Oricon Weekly Singles chart and remains as Onitsuka's best-selling single.
Commercial performance
"Gekk" debuted at number thirty on the Oricon Weekly Singles chart and peaked at number eleven, due to the unexpected hit of the television drama series 'Trick'. The single spent thirty-seven weeks within top 100 on the chart and have sold than 561,000 physical copies and 500,000 digital copies in Japan alone.
In January 2014, the song charted at number fifty-eight on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, as the song was used in television commercial for the Japanese film 'Trick The Movie: Last Stage', the last installment of the 'Trick' series.
Music video
The music video was released on June 24, 2011 via Onitsuka's Vevo account. It was directed by Tsuyoshi Inoue and primarily features Onitsuka singing in front of a Christian cross. As of August 2018, it has received over 40 million views.
In popular culture
"Gekk" served as the theme song to the Japanese comedy crime drama television series 'Trick' and later used in the two films based on the series, 'Trick: the Movie' (2002) and 'Trick The Movie: Last Stage' (2014). Also, the song was used as the Japanese theme song to the American science-fiction romance television series 'Journeyman' and used in some Japanese Variety shows.
The song was later covered by the Japanese singer-songwriter Hideaki Tokunaga, on his fourth cover album 'Vocalist 4', which has sold over 250,000 copies.
"Arrow of Pain" served as the theme song to the Japanese road movie 'Glowing Glowing' (2002).
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Charts
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Year-end charts
Certification and sales
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! scope="row" rowspan="2"| Japan (RIAJ)
| Platinum
| 561,000
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| 2Platinum
| 500,000+
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Release history
References
Category:2000 singles
Category:2000 songs
Category:J-pop songs
Category:Rock ballads
Category:Internet memes
Category:Songs written for films
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