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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Kazuki Tomokawa
Person · male · Japan · Akita Prefecture · born 1950
Japanese singer-songwriter (1950-)
Also known as 友川和樹
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1950s
Biography
English biography65 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371034774
Biography
Tenji Nozoki (及位典司; born February 16, 1950), best known by the stage name Kazuki Tomokawa (友川 かずき), is a prolific Japanese musician, active in the Japanese music scene since the early 1970s. His music has been used in the films of cult directors Takashi Miike and Kōji Wakamatsu, and he also appears in person in Miike's Izo (2004).
Japanese poet Satoru Nozoki is his brother.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 7 | 44.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Kazuki Tomokawa head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 7 | 44.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kazuki_Tomokawa_Bootleg_Theater_Los_Angeles.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q360256genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q360256seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuki_Tomokawabiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuki_Tomokawa
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Japanese singers
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Downatgreengables · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q360256 · MusicBrainz: 20fbdf88-0d01-48c5-add8-310a43c9eb3a
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