"Kinku" | ||||
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Single by Akina Nakamori | ||||
from the album Best Akina Memoires | ||||
Language | Japanese | |||
English title | Forbidden Zone | |||
B-side | "Ame no Requiem" | |||
Released | September 7, 1983 | |||
Recorded | 1983 | |||
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Length | 3:48 | |||
Label | Reprise Records | |||
Composer(s) | Haruomi Hosono | |||
Lyricist(s) | Masao Urino | |||
Producer(s) | Yoshiaki Tanaka | |||
Akina Nakamori singles chronology | ||||
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Music videos | ||||
"Kinku" (Live) on YouTube |
"Kinku" (禁区, lit. "Forbidden Zone") is the sixth single by Japanese entertainer Akina Nakamori. Written by Masao Urino and Haruomi Hosono, the single was released on September 7, 1983, by Warner Pioneer through the Reprise label. It was also the third single from her first greatest hits album Best Akina Memoires.[1][2]
Nakamori performed the song on the 34th Kōhaku Uta Gassen, making her debut on NHK's New Year's Eve special.[3] In 2010, she re-recorded the song for the pachinko machine CR Nakamori Akina: Utahime Densetsu ~Koi Moni Dome nara~ (CR中森明菜・歌姫伝説〜恋も二度目なら〜, CR Akina Nakamori: Utahime Legend ~If Love Is For the Second Time~).[4]
"Kinku" became Nakamori's third No. 1 on Oricon's weekly singles chart and sold over 511,000 copies.[5][6]
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arrangement | Length |
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1. | "Kinku" ((禁区, "Forbidden Zone")) | Masao Urino | Haruomi Hosono |
| 3:48 |
2. | "Ame no Requiem" (Ame no Rekuiemu (雨のレクイエム, "Requiem of the Rain")) | Rui Serizawa | Kōji Tamaki | Hagita | 4:43 |
Total length: | 8:31 |
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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3. | "Kinku (Live Version)" ((禁区(LIVE VERSION))) | Urino | Hosono |
Chart (1983)[5] | Peak position |
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Japan (Oricon) | 1 |
Year | Format(s) | Serial number | Label(s) | Ref. |
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1983 | 7inch LP | L-1662 | Warner Pioneer | [9] |
1988 | 8cm CD, CT | 10SL-135, 10L5-4045 | Warner Pioneer | [10] |
1998 | 12cm CD | WPC6-8663 | Warner Pioneer | [11] |
2008 | Digital download | - | Warner Pioneer | [12] |
2014 | Digital download - remaster | - | Warner Pioneer | [13] |