Kazukiyo Nishikiori

Nishikiori was born in 1965 in Setagaya, Tokyo, and moved to Edogawa, Tokyo when he was two years old due to his father's work. Edogawa is an area known as Shitamachi and is located in the eastern part of Tokyo.{{cite web |title=東山とは「合う」、植草は......。錦織一清が語る、少年隊のすべて |url=https://books.j-cast.com/topics/2023/03/05020608.html |website=j-cast |access-date=2024-11-02 |language=Japanese |date=2023-03-05}} His father worked for a company that printed album cover of phonograph record and his mother was a nurse.{{cite web |title=錦織一清 5年ぶりに俳優として舞台へ「最初は漠然。徐々に気持ちが乗っていった」 |url=https://mezamashi.media/article/15137761 |website=mezamashi media |publisher=Fuji Television Network, Inc. |access-date=2024-11-04 |language=Japanese |date=2022-08-10}} He was sickly and weak, so his father bought records with the company's employee discount and played him a lot of music when he was often absent from school, and his mother raised him to take good care of his health. However, he said his body naturally became stronger as he played freely outside. He was so athletic that when he was a kindergartener he could naturally do backflips while playing in his sister's primary school gym. Therefore, when he was a child, he wanted to become a physical education teacher in the future. In Edogawa, their family initially lived in an apartment without a bath. He loved the local folksy atmosphere and liked to go to the Sentō, a public bath, with his friends, even after his family moved to a rental house with a bath.{{cite web |title=風呂なしの小さなアパートから「少年隊」へ……12歳でジャニーズ入りした錦織一清『少年タイムカプセル』試し読み |url=https://www.bookbang.jp/article/753350 |website=bookbang |publisher=Shinchosha |access-date=2024-11-06 |language=Japanese |date=2023-05-12}} As a child, his father often took him not to amusement parks but to yose, horse racing and Keirin. He enjoyed seeing the many unique adults there. His sister was a fan of Johnny's Four Leaves and Hiromi Go, who were active on TV at the time.{{cite web |title=錦織一清『少年タイムカプセル』試し読み |url=https://kangaeruhito.jp/trial/755709 |publisher=Shinchosha Co. Ltd. |access-date=2024-11-02 |language=Japanese |date=2023-02-28}} In July 1977, when Nishikiori was in the sixth grade, his sister sent his resume to Johnny & Associates and he took the audition. At the time, before the Tanokin Trio broke through, Johnny's was in a slump and only seven or eight people showed up for the audition. Nishikiori had no dance experience, but he danced as he saw fit. However, there was one step he just couldn't do, and when he was frustrated, Johnny Kitagawa appeared and told him "You are a genius." He later said it was the first and last time he had ever been freely praised him by Kitagawa.{{cite web |title=10代で芽生えたプロ意識 |url=https://info.asahi.com/shukatsu/asakyu/nishikiori-1.html |website=asahi.com |publisher=The Asahi Shimbun |access-date=2024-11-03 |language=Japanese}} He passed an audition and joined the Johnny & Associates. Katsuhide Uekusa, a member of Shonentai, later said that when he first met Nishikiori, others introduced him as a genius. Nishikiori did backflips so lightly in front of the onlookers that the others began practising backflips frantically, imitating him.{{cite web |title=少年隊・植草克秀が語る人生の分岐点「古巣とヒガシ（東山紀之）と合宿所、衝撃を受けた天才、少年隊の復活」 |url=https://futabasha-change.com/articles/-/636?page=2 |website=The Change |publisher=Futabasha Publishers Ltd. |access-date=2024-11-02 |language=Japanese |date=2024-02-10}} At the time, Kitagawa knew that he wanted to be a physical education teacher in the future, but he did not specifically tell him to become a celebrity, he just took him to various movies and shows.

As a trainee, Nishikiori appeared as an actor in an educational film Good-bye My Dog Rocky in 1978. The film was a short film about a boy who lives with and raises a guide dog from puppy to ten months of age before parting with him.{{cite web |title=錦織一清「若い頃の自分は大嫌い…」見てくれよりカッコいい生きざまを選んでいきたい |url=https://wanibooks-newscrunch.com/articles/-/5528 |website=wani-books |access-date=2024-11-05 |language=Japanese |date=2024-10-27}}{{cite web |title=全国フィルム所有施設データベース |url=https://kirokueiga-hozon.jp/bunkashisetsu/search/eigadata/view/10611-00080 |website=Centre for Documentary Film Preservation |access-date=2024-11-03 |language=Japanese}} He said that because he started his career as an actor, he initially wanted to be a film star, as did several senior members of Johnny's.{{cite web |title=年齢はブレーキだろうか |url=https://info.asahi.com/shukatsu/asakyu/nishikiori--4.html |publisher=The Asahi Shimbun |access-date=2024-11-02 |language=Japanese |date=2022}} At Johnny's, he met Noriyuki Higashiyama and Katsuhide Uekusa, who would later form Shonentai. Higashiyama had a shaved head and looked like Masao Ohba, a boxer active at the time, while Uekusa was impressive because his family was wealthy and he had an oilcloth red bag, as if he was already a celebrity. Nishikiori was particularly friendly with Higashiyama and they sometimes went to the movies together. After their time as trainees, he formed Shonentai with Higashiyama and Uekusa in 1982. Initially a back-up dancer for Masahiko Kondo and Toshihiko Tahara. Shonentai appeared on singing shows, singing hit songs by other singers of the time, and even gave concert performances five times a day.{{cite web |author1=Rei Matsunaga |title=少年隊・錦織一清が明かす"下町少年"が『仮面舞踏会』でトップに立った20歳のころ 「俺、頭にスパンコールのバンダナ巻くとか嫌だから！」 |url=https://bunshun.jp/articles/-/54170 |website=bunshun |access-date=2024-11-04 |language=Japanese |date=2022-05-19}} They gradually gained popularity even before their debut. At the time, Kitagawa scolded him for caring only about fashion and appearance, and told him to hone his performing skills more. Prior to their debut, Shonentai were given the opportunity to perform at Bloomingdale's, a department store in New York City. The experience of singing and dancing in front of an audience of different languages and cultures made him determined to further improve his performing skills.{{cite web |title=あの人を訪ねたい 錦織一清 |url=https://ab.jcci.or.jp/article/758/ |website=JCCI Assist Biz |access-date=2024-11-05 |language=Japanese |date=2019-08-01}} At the end of 1984, Nishikiori made a direct appeal to Mary Fujishima, Kitagawa's elder sister, at the 1984 year-end party for Johnny's, asking her to let him make his debut, even if it was on a flexi disc. Then six months later he was informed that their debut had been confirmed.{{cite web |author1=Keiko Ueda |title=錦織一清が語る昭和のジャニーズ「僕が合宿所に通い詰めた理由」 |url=https://gendai.media/articles/-/107657?page=1&imp=0 |website=gendai.media |publisher=Kodansha Co. Ltd. |access-date=2024-11-02 |language=Japanese |date=2023-03-22}}

On December 12, 1985, Shonentai made their record debut with Kamen Butokai.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jiji.com/jc/g?cid=6747|title=Single song ranking that comes to mind when you hear the name Shonentai| publisher=Jiji.com|accessdate=2021-10-05}} Nishikori has a well-balanced combination of singing, dancing, and acting abilities, and Kitagawa described him as "a masterpiece of Johnny's."{{cite web |title=演出家・錦織一清さんの世界観がダジャレで溢れている理由とは？著書で初めて明かされたユニークな演出論に注目！ |url=https://lee.hpplus.jp/column/2574881/ |website=LEE |publisher=Shueisha |access-date=2024-11-07 |language=Japanese |date=2023-03-12}} He was also the leader of Shonentai because he was older and had a longer performing career than the other members. After his debut, he began to appear on television singing shows, and when he wore flamboyant costumes, such as sequined elastic wrapped around his head, he sometimes worried that he might lose friends if his local friends saw this.{{cite web |title=少年隊・錦織一清が明かす"下町少年"が『仮面舞踏会』でトップに立った20歳のころ 「俺、頭にスパンコールのバンダナ巻くとか嫌だから！」 |url=https://bunshun.jp/articles/-/54170 |website=bunshun |access-date=2024-11-02 |language=Japanese |date=2020-05-19}} Their debut song "Kamen Butokai" is said to have been reworked many times before its completion,{{cite web |title=少年隊・錦織一清が明かす"下町少年"が『仮面舞踏会』でトップに立った20歳のころ 「俺、頭にスパンコールのバンダナ巻くとか嫌だから！」 |url=https://bunshun.jp/articles/54170?page=2 |website=bunshun |access-date=2024-11-06 |language=Japanese |date=2022-05-19}} and the phrase "Tonight ya ya ya... tear" at the beginning of the song was invented by Nishikiori. He was known for coming up with different ideas when working on new songs. It has no particular meaning,{{cite web |title=植草克秀 デビュー曲「仮面舞踏会」秘話 実は大人ウケを狙った？ |url=https://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2019/06/13/kiji/20190613s00041000173000c.html |website=sponichi |access-date=2024-11-05 |language=Japanese |date=2019-06-13}} but was adopted as a catchy phrase that was pleasant to the ear.{{cite web |title=錦織一清 『少年隊』の命名秘話 ジャニーさんの狙い「聞き間違えるからいいじゃない」 |url=https://news.ntv.co.jp/category/culture/67d54ea278334cf58be5abc4c433d30a |website=Nippon TV |access-date=2024-11-05 |language=Japanese |date=2023-03-01}} The phrase "Wakachiko" in their second single "Decameron Densetsu" (The Legend of Decameron) also has no particular meaning, but he liked Japanese band called Spectrum at the time, and was inspired by their debut song, in which they say "Wacchikon" during the interlude.{{cite web |title=錦織一清が語る少年隊名曲秘話 |url=https://www.joqr.co.jp/qr/article/75774/ |website=joqr.co.jp |publisher=Nippon Cultural Broadcasting Inc |access-date=2024-11-05 |language=Japanese |date=2022-12-22}} Nishikiori is currently known for telling amusing stories and jokes, but according to him, he was not an interesting person at the time of his debut and was scolded by Kitagawa, who said, “Your stage banter is not fun. In order to entertain the audience not only with cool singing and dancing, but also with talk, he says he honed his talk skills by referring to Kenji Sawada, who was a popular with his singing and talking at the time.{{cite web |title=錦織一清「少年隊のニッキを"お笑い担当"にしたのはジャニー喜多川さんの教育」〜 10月18日「くにまるジャパン極」 |url=https://www.joqr.co.jp/qr/article/28209/ |website=joqr.co.jp |access-date=2024-11-04 |language=Japanese |date=2021-10-18}} Later, he became known for telling jokes in interviews.{{cite web |title=錦織一清が語る、ジャニー喜多川さんとつかこうへいさんへの思い|url=https://xtrend.nikkei.com/atcl/contents/18/00640/00007/ |website=xtrend.nikkei.com |access-date=2024-11-07 |language=Japanese |date=2022-12-19}}

After his debut, he worked as an individual actor in parallel with his group activities as Shonentai. In 1988, he played a boxer in the lead role of Golden Boy, a play that originated in the United States. His co-stars were all stars, including veteran actors Isao Bito and Tokuma Nishioka, so he was under a lot of pressure.{{cite web |title=どんな人間か人は見抜く |url=https://info.asahi.com/shukatsu/asakyu/nishikiori--2.html |website=asahi.com |access-date=2024-11-03 |language=Japanese}} In the TV series, he played the lead role for the first time in 1988 in In the Night Sky After the Bath. As Shonentai became popular, he began to work on more and more movies and TV series, but he says he preferred working in the play rehearsal hall with the cast and crew on the stage work to working on a film, where the actors are often shot separately, and he thought that might be his true calling. Then, in 1995, he began to concentrate on theater work when he began working as a theatre director parallel to appear as an actor in the musical Playzone by Shonentai.

Nishikiori said that he has two mentors, and that his mentor in show creation and his starting point as a director was Johnny Kitagawa. And in theatre direction, he said he was strongly influenced by Kohei Tsuka.{{cite web |title=錦織一清 2人の師匠に導かれアイドルから演劇人 つかこうへいさん＆ジャニーさんに薫陶受けた演出家の道 |url=https://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2024/07/21/kiji/20240720s00041000365000c.html |website=sponichi |access-date=2024-11-05 |language=Japanese |date=2024-07-21}} They both said they always watched the actors offstage and gave detailed instructions to them, which was common to both of them. Kitagawa was not concerned with reality in his stage productions and always pursued entertainment, and said, "I am the one who creates the fads," and he never followed the trends. The plays he created in this way were always interesting and never out of date. This way of thinking had a strong influence on Nishikiori.{{cite web |title=錦織一清単独インタビュー |url=https://www.entax.news/post/202212122130.html |website=entax |access-date=2024-11-05 |language=Japanese |date=2022-12-12}} Nishikiori first became interested in Kohei Tsuka when he was in high school and read one of Tsuka's books and he saw the film Fall Guy, one of Tsuka's best-known works. He awakened his interest in theater, and he staged and directed this theatre production at his high school's school festival.{{cite web |author1=Rei Matsunaga |title=「世間的には僕があまり仕事してない感じに映ってたかも（笑）」 ジャニーズ退所から1年半、演出家・錦織一清が"今が一番幸せ"と語る理由 |url=https://bunshun.jp/articles/-/54172?page=2 |website=bunshun |access-date=2024-11-05 |language=Japanese |date=2022-05-19}} Tsuka's this theatre production had been performed since 1980, and Nishikiori played the lead role of Ginshiro in 1999, and again in 2000 and 2006. During this time, he was under the tutelage of Tsuka and was deeply influenced by him. Nishikiori is said to have been recognized by Tsuka as "the second generation of director Kohei Tsuka," and after Tsuka's death, he was hired as the first person from outside the company to direct and teach workshops at Tsuka's theater company, Kita-ku AKT Stage in 2016.{{cite web |title=錦織一清つかイズム継承へ！演技講師オファーされ演出担当も |url=https://www.sanspo.com/article/20160308-U5WQCLB3QFIMXPRNLZHLIRCHFM/ |website=sanspo |access-date=2024-11-05 |language=Japanese |date=2016-03-08}} Nishikiori directed the musical productions Ode to Joy and Setouchi Koshinkyoku at the Botchan Theatre, Tōon city, Ehime Prefecture, for two consecutive years starting in 2018. Although the Botchan Theater is a small regional theater in Shikoku, it is the only theater in Japan that stages self-produced musicals for a full year, and has attracted a total of 900,000 people since its opening in 2006. In 2018, Ode to Joy won the Family Musical Award at the 2018 All About Musical Awards. This production was performed again at the Bocchan Theater as well as in Tokyo in 2019.{{cite web |title=坊っちゃん劇場ミュージカル「よろこびのうた」東京公演、「第九」の精神を次世代に |url=https://natalie.mu/stage/news/309910 |website=natalie |access-date=2024-11-04 |language=Japanese |date=2018-11-28}}

On December 31, 2020, he left Johnny & Associates and became freelancer.{{cite web |title=錦織一清 |url=https://music.tower.jp/artist/detail/2001802945 |website=Tower Record Japan |access-date=2024-11-07 |language=Japanese |date=2023}} Since then, he has been active as a theater director and an actor. The major reason he left Johnny's was the death of Johnny Kitagawa in July 2019.{{cite web |title=「少年隊」の2人がジャニーズ退所の真相と心境を改めて語る 錦織「口裏合わせて辞めたわけじゃ…」 |url=https://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2023/04/26/kiji/20230426s00041000526000c.html |website=sponichi |access-date=2024-11-04 |language=Japanese |date=2023-04-26}}{{cite web |title=Japanese entertainment tycoon Johnny Kitagawa dies at 87 |url=https://apnews.com/arts-and-entertainment-music-general-news-e48460bc36cc4038a741bfa9b6095e85 |website=AP News |access-date=2024-11-04 |date=July 10, 2019}} Kitagawa, whom he had been able to consult about anything about his work, had passed away, and the company became a very large company with several hundred people, unlike when Nishikiori was young and it was a small company with a few dozen people. He preferred to continue working in the field, so he was not interested in working as an office executive like Hideaki Takizawa or Yoshihiko Inohara, who were being talked about at the time. He said that since he was almost 60 years old, he wanted to be independent and do what he wanted to do. Nishikiori also compared this big company to a ship and said that as a crew member of this big ship, when he wondered if there would be room for him in the future, he decided to quit thinking that there would not be.{{cite web |title=錦織一清が明かす「ジャニーズ事務所を辞めたホントの理由」「ジャニーさんを送る会で感じたこと」 |url=https://www.dailyshincho.jp/article/2023/02021102/?all=1&page=2 |website=daily sincho |publisher=Shinchosha |access-date=2024-11-04 |language=Japanese |date=2023-02-02}} Although they did not discuss it, Katsuhide Uekusa, another member of Shonentai, also left the Johnny's at the same time, triggered by Kitagawa's death. In September 2021, he and Uekusa launched the YouTube channel "Nicky and Kacchanel",{{cite web |title=少年隊の錦織一清と植草克秀がYouTubeチャンネルとTwitterを開設 ファン歓喜「盆と正月」「凄い楽しみ」 |url=https://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/331143 |website=chunichi |access-date=2024-11-04 |language=Japanese |date=2021-09-16}} and the following year, they held a dinner theater.{{cite web |author1=Takashi Usui |title=錦織一清と植草克秀『ふたりのSHOW&TIME』密着ルポ【#1】実力・個性・絆が発揮されまくるステージは圧巻！ |url=https://fumufumunews.jp/articles/-/23137 |website=fumufumu news |publisher=Shufu to seikatsu sha Co,Ltd. |access-date=2024-11-08 |language=Japanese |date=2022-10-18}} In April 2021, Nishikiori launched his official fan club, Uncle Cinnamon Club, and in 2022, he founded Uncle Cinamon Inc.{{cite web |title=少年隊・錦織一清57歳がいま振り返る、あのときジャニー喜多川氏が考えていたこと |url=https://nikkan-spa.jp/1896084 |website=SPA! |access-date=2024-11-03 |language=Japanese |date=2023-03-22}} The reason why it is Cinnamon is because in Japanese, Cinnamon is also called Nikki, which is similar to his nickname.{{cite web |title=まさかのオヤジギャグ 少年隊・錦織一清のファンクラブ名に注目「センス好き」 |url=https://www.j-cast.com/2021/04/30410671.html |website=j-cast |access-date=2024-11-07 |language=Japanese |date=2021-04-30}} In 2022, Nishikiori acted for the first time in five years in Salaryman Night Fever, a play he wrote and directed. The reason for focusing on office workers was that when he used to perform in Yurakucho about 20 years ago, the audience was mostly women, and his old local friend asked him, "Is there any theater that we can go see more casually?"{{cite web |title=大阪公演に向けて、錦織一清が「サラリーマンナイトフィーバー」執筆秘話語る |url=https://lp.p.pia.jp/article/news/246294/index.html |website=pia |access-date=2024-11-07 |language=Japanese |date=2022-09-22}} After COVID-19 pandemic, he also became interested in contributing to society. He said he wanted to create a production that would cheer up office workers of his age who commute on crowded trains every day, are made sarcastic remarks by their bosses, and are kept at a distance by their daughters when they go home. In an interview with 2023, Nishikiori had been working in show business and doing the singing and dancing he loved, but after he turned 40, he was not sure if it was contributing to society, and considered retiring from his job. However, after the COVID-19 pandemic, he said that seeing Wahaha Honpo, a comedy troupe, doing their best to make the audience laugh made him decide that this was the only thing he could do, and that he would continue to do this work.{{cite web |title=少年隊・錦織一清「自分のことをアイドルと考えたことがない」 |url=https://www.lmaga.jp/news/2023/04/636914/ |website=Keihanshin Lmagazine Co.,Ltd. |access-date=2024-11-02 |language=Japanese |date=2023-04-21}} He said he became independent after his idol days and wanted to compete as a theater director in a place where no one knew who he was, and that he is now closer to his original self when he lived Shitamachi and before he entered show business.

Since leaving the Johnny's, Nishikiori has been freely performing music without being restricted to a group. In 2021, he began his solo music career, launching the independent label Uncle Cinamon Records and his new single Cafe Uncle Cinnamon and Song for you were released simultaneously on October 29, 2021. This was his first solo release in about 27 years, and the first since he left the institute.{{cite web |title=錦織一清がジャニーズ事務所退所後初のソロ作品リリース、プロデューサーはNONA REEVES西寺郷太 |url=https://natalie.mu/music/news/445880 |website=natalie |access-date=2024-11-04 |language=Japanese |date=2021-09-19}} In 2022, he and Uekusa held a dinner theater in Tokyo and Osaka, where they entertained the audience with songs from the Shonentai era and a talk mixed with jokes between the two.{{cite web |author1=Takashi Usui |title=錦織一清と植草克秀『ふたりのSHOW&TIME』密着ルポ【#2】確かに感じられたふたり、そして"3人"のつながり |url=https://fumufumunews.jp/articles/-/23138 |website=fumufumu news |publisher=Shufu to seikatsusha Co.Ltd. |access-date=2024-11-08 |language=Japanese |date=2022-10-20}} In 2023, he launched a new project "Funky Diamond 18 (Funky Diamond One Eight)" with Papaya Suzuki, a classmate of his high school,{{cite web |title=パパイヤ鈴木「すごいニシキ見て」錦織一清とFunkyDiamond18結成 ７月新アルバム |url=https://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/202306150001068.html |website=nikkansports |access-date=2024-11-04 |language=Japanese |date=2023-06-15}} and released a mini album Primemax on July 12, followed by a nationwide live tour Live Tour 2023 Primemax in four cities throughout Japan.{{cite web |title=Funky Diamond 18 LIVE TOUR 2023 PRIMEMAX 公演情報！！ |url=https://unclecinnamon.com/news/14218 |website=Uncle Cinamon |access-date=2024-11-04 |language=Japanese |date=2023-05-09}}

In October 2023, Nishikiori said about Johnny Kitagawa's sexual abuse scandal led to the closure of Johnny & Associates, as one who was once in the company, he expressed that while he finds Kitagawa's sexual abuse disappointing, he still considers Kitagawa to be his own mentor. He said that if the public would allow it, he would like to carry on only the good things he received from him in the future.{{cite web |title=錦織一清、旧ジャニーズの性加害問題に初言及 東山紀之について「意を決したと思う。追い込まれていたんじゃないかな」 |url=https://www.sanspo.com/article/20231030-SRGIJUFZ2NLGRAPBJGPGTYYVBI/ |website=sanspo |access-date=2024-11-07 |language=Japanese |date=2023-10-30}}

• Kazukiyo Nishikiori dinner show (2000 Tokyo, Osaka)

• Kazukiyo Nishikiori and Katsuhide Uekusa presents their show & time "Song for you" (2022 Tokyo, Osaka)

• Funky Diamond 18 Live Tour 2023 "Primemax" (2023 Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo, Fukuoka){{cite web |title=Funky Diamond 18 LIVE TOUR 2023 PRIMEMAX 公演情報！！ |url=https://unclecinnamon.com/news/14218 |website=Uncle cinnamon |access-date=2024-11-08 |language=Japanese |date=2023-05-09}}

• Kazukiyo Nishikiori's Directing Theory (2022, Nikkei BP) {{ISBN|978-4-296-20139-6}}{{cite web |title=錦織一清｜初めて「表現のメソッド」を明かす待望の著作『錦織一清 演出論』11月25日発売 |url=https://tower.jp/article/feature_item/2022/10/28/3005?srsltid=AfmBOorMwzJELYgtaflHsaLKyIpG5GmJzmI8KEYZkIKv9q1_7x7wz2RB |website=Tower Record Japan |access-date=2024-11-04 |language=Japanese |date=2022-10-28}}
• Boy's Time Capsule (2023, Shinchosha) {{ISBN2|978-4-103-54931-4}}{{cite web |title=少年隊のニッキこと錦織一清、初の自叙伝『少年タイムカプセル』が発売当日に重版決定！ あらたに本人からのコメントも届きました！ |url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000915.000047877.html |website=PR Times |access-date=2024-11-04 |language=Japanese |date=2023-03-03}}
• First autobiography

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