Hiroshi Oguchi was born in Kawaguchi Japan, November 28, 1950. He died January 25, 2009, in Tokyo Japan, of cancer.
A high profile Tokyo based conceptual artist, musician and scene maker, Hiroshi Oguchi has for decades been influential in the changing attitudes of Japan's youth. As a drummer he has been in the bands The TemptersThe Tempters were part of Japan's Group Sounds pop music era in the 1960s.Featuring lead vocalist Kenichi Hagiwara, who was also known by the nickname of Shoken, they rivaled The Tigers for the top spot in the Japan rock scene hierarchy...
, PygPYG was a super-group from Japan, made up of members of the most famous bands of the Group Sounds era, The Tempters, The Spiders and The Tigers....
and Vodka CollinsVodka Collins is a Tokyo based Japanese-American rock band, formed in 1971. The core band members are drummer Hiroshi Oguchi , singer-guitarist Alan Merrill, singer-guitarist Hiroshi "Monsieur" Kamayatsu and bassist Take Yokouchi...
, recording many albums. He also owned and ran his own fashion company Practice of Silence. Oguchi has also been an actor in a number of films, including Shōgun, Strange Circus-Plot:School principal Ozawa Gozo rapes his daughter, Mitsuko, after she sees her parents having sex. Her mother Sayuri witnesses the rape. Gozo now rapes both of them as he pleases, while his family is undermined by incest, suicide, and murder... such is the erotic novel wheel-bound novelist Taeko...
(2006), and Silk (2007). He was married to the popular actress Kimie Shingyojiis a popular actress and model in Japan, and she is known as one of the country's most beautiful women. Her best known roles are in the films Eureka, Station To Heaven, Natsumeke No Shokutaku, and Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl....
. They have one son, Gento Oguchi, who is a musician and an artist.
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