Közi (born May 29, 1972) is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and DJ.
He is best known as one of the guitarists for the 1990s visual kei rock band Malice Mizer.
After they went on indefinite hiatus in 2001, he formed the industrial rock duo Eve of Destiny and also started a solo career.
Közi is currently in the bands XA-VAT, ZIZ and Vamquet.
A home video release of the Deep Sanctuary VI Malice Mizer 25th Anniversary special that took place at Toyosu Pit in Tokyo, Japan on September 8th and 9th, 2019. The live concert featured guest appearances from vocalists KAMIJO, Shuji and Hitomi and performances from Mana’s current band Moi dix Mois and Közi’s current band ZIZ.
A silent film retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula starring and soundtracked by Malice Mizer. Jonathan (Klaha), engaged to Cecil (Terumi Nagayoshi) has received a letter from the Earl of Dracula (Yu~ki) who asks him to travel to Transylvania to finalize the purchase of a manor which causes him to push back his wedding, soon after he arrives Dracula imprisons Jonathan and travels to London to meet Cecil. Meanwhile, the resident Vampire in London (Közi) is not happy that Dracula has gone there to hunt and attempts to thwart Dracula's wishes but is prevented by his sister the Nun (Mana) who is a minion of Dracula.
A home video release of a two-day live concert played by Malice Mizer on August 31 & September 1, 2000 at the Nippon Budōkan Hall in Tokyo, Japan — the band’s first performances with lead vocalist Klaha. Malice Mizer performs their fourth studio album, "Bara no Seidou" in its entirety using the gothic cathedral from the album’s cover as an enormous set piece alongside pyrotechnics and a choir of veiled nuns.
Recordings of two live performances by Malice Mizer, edited into a complete concert experience of the visual kei band’s third studio album "merveilles", filmed while on tour in Japan during 1998 at the Nippon Budōkan Hall on April 1 and Yokohama Arena on July 22. The live video features an onstage cathedral set piece, theatrics, costume changes, and skits — performed as openings and endings of songs. The final show of the "merveilles ~Shuuen to Kisuu~" tour held July 22, 1998 at Yokohama Arena, featured in the film, would be lead vocalist Gackt’s last performance with Malice Mizer before his departure from the group in January of 1999 and drummer Kami’s last live show before his sudden passing on June 21, 1999.
A home video release documenting Malice Mizer's last indie live before signing with Columbia, at Shibuya Kokaido on 4/1/1997.