Demon Kakka

Demon Kakka is the longest-running piece of committed performance art in Japanese entertainment, and I mean that admiringly. The record says he was born in 1962; he maintains he is over a hundred thousand years old, being a demon. He has held that character since fronting the heavy metal band Seikima-II in the 1980s, went solo in 1990, and has since worked as an actor, film director and songwriter. The part that still amazes me is the sumo commentary. He turns up in full demonic makeup and delivers analysis more literate and better argued than most of the sport's own pundits. The Waseda education is clearly in there somewhere. Staying in costume for forty years while being taken seriously on serious subjects is far harder than it looks.

Name (English)

Demon Kakka

Name (Japanese)

デーモン閣下

Reading

でーもん閣下

Born

November 10, 1962 (age 63)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Tiger

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

singer / film director / actor / tarento / composer

University

Waseda University

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.demon-kogure.jp/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E9%96%A3%E4%B8%8B

Tags

• Tokyo
• singer
• film director
• actor

Last updated

2026-07-26

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.