Buck-Tick Zone

Notes

A few videos have more than one version. "Uta" and "Kodo" each are singles with a video but then another video is available as part of the Six/Nine conceptual videos. As part of the bonus feature of some Buck-Tick video releases, there are alternative versions of other music videos but the differences are not as noticeable, simply another edit. One of these would be "Aku No Hana".

As Buck-Tick tends to work with the same people when recording albums, so do they with videos. For example, Tomoko Fujikane has mostly worked as a producer (Sabbat live videos and Six/Nine videos) but also directed the "Sabbat" music video.

Buck-Tick first worked with Wataru Hayashi (Whoop) when they made the videos for "Pleasure Land" and "Aku No Hana" and would go on to make several videos with him as well as work with his company on live videos.

Suguru Takeuchi began his directoral career with "Dizzy Moon".

Music video directors who have won awards (not for Buck-Tick videos though): Suguru Takeuchi (2000 Best Director, Space Shower MVA), Yasuyuki Yamaguchi (2006 Best Director, Space Shower MVA).

Notes (repeat from releases)

Most of these music videos are available as a compilation video that was released officially. The notes I wrote for those official compilation videos that pertain to individual music videos is being copied here for the sake of being comprehensive.

Taken from More Sexual!!!!!:
"My Eyes & Your Eyes" is not a music video itself, rather b-roll footage during the credits.

"Sexual XXXXX!" and "Dream or Truth" was filmed at the Chateau O. Kamiya. "Illusion" was filmed at a studio by Tokyo Tower.

Taken from Seventh Heaven:
The influence of Bauhaus is undeniable in the "Physical Neurose" video. It is reminiscent of the video Bauhaus made for their cover of "Telegram Sam" in 1980.

Taken from Aku No Hana:
The video for "National Media Boys" features Russian on the screen: Alexan(der?), and lyrics phonetically spelled, not translated, "oh", "lalala", "insanity boy".

"I Love Lucy" is written on one of the dolls in the "Love Me" video.

The video for "Pleasure Land" consists of nature clips and does not feature Buck-Tick.

Taken from each video collection it already appears in:
In the video for "Uta", Atsushi hints of being a madam, Hisashi is Kurt Cobain, Hide is Lenny Kravitz, U-ta is no one in particular, and Toll mimics the Beatles.

Taken from Picture Product:
Please note that "Loop Mark II" is not technically a video as the credits roll while the song is played, making it similar to "My Eyes & Your Eyes" except no footage is shown, just graphics.

Taken from Singles on Digital Video Disc:
Atsushi's nails in "Romance" are fake and he had great difficulty functioning with fake nails, such as Hide had to help him eat.

Music Video Director Count

Buck-Tick videos
Wataru Hayashi: 27
Tomoo Noda: 5
Hiroki Yamaguchi: 4
Yuichi Araya: 3
Ichiziku Sakurai: 3
Sojira Otsubo: 3
Shintaro Ehara: 2
Atsuo Imai: 2
Tsuyoshi Inoue: 2
Tomomi Iriya: 2
Hirotaka Takada: 2
Muramatsu Yasumune: 2
Tomoko Fujikane: 1.5
Korehisa Fukuda: 1
Tomo Furukawa: 1
Kenjiro Harigai: 1
Tetsuo Inoue: 1
Yuichiro Iwaki: 1
Kensaku Kakimoto: 1
Osamu Kanemura: 1
Osamu Moriya: 1
Sojiro Ohtsubo: 1
Kanji Suto: 1
Suguru Takeuchi: 1
Hidenobu Tanabe: 1
Yasuyuki Yamaguchi: 1
Masaya Yamamoto: 1
Fumihide Anami: 0.5 (joint collaboration)
Shoichi David Haruyama: 0.5 (joint collaboration)
Haruji Nakamori: 0.5 (joint collaboration)
Yuko Sakurai: 0.5 (joint collaboration)
Fujimaru Totsuka: 0.5 (joint collaboration)
unknown: 7

Solo and side project videos:
Yuichiro Iwaki: 5
Tetsuro Takeuchi: 2
Wataru Hayashi: 1
Naoko Miyokawa: 1
Jiei Mogi: 1
Daisuke Shimada: 1
Hiroki Yamaguchi: 1
Yoshihiko Takewaki: 0.5
Zakuro: 0.5
Unknown: 2

Music Video Trivia

Bits of random trivia where the videos are listed in chronological order.

Videos featuring only Atsushi:
Misshitsu

Videos not featuring any member of Buck-Tick:
Pleasure Land, Loop, Somewhere Nowhere, Loop Mark II

Videos featuring clips of previous Buck-Tick videos:
My Eyes & Your Eyes (because it's a b-roll footage video), Itoshi No Rock Star

Videos featuring people other than members of Buck-Tick (however partial):
Sexual XXXXX! (old foreign risqué photos, crew member in still photo?), Physical Neurose (high school girls, masked people), Victims of Love (masked man and woman), ...In Heaven... (foreign girl, masked people, unmasked women), Maboroshi No Miyako (archive footage of Morocco), Misty Blue (foreign woman), Sabbat (masked women), MAD (woman), Angelic Conversation (archive footage), Jupiter (foreign woman), Dress (foreign woman), Uta (crew members visible), Mienai Mono Wo Miyou To Suru Gokai    Subete Gokai Da (Six/Nine version) (crew member visible), Candy (woman), Sasayaki (girl, foreign woman), 21st Cherry Boy (foreign women), Gensou No Hana (foreign woman), Romance (various performers), Kagerou (foreign woman), Alice in Wonder Underground (foreign girl, man), Heaven (foreign woman), Galaxy (foreign girl?), Dokudanjou Beauty (foreign woman and men), Kuchizuke (foreign woman), Climax Together (fans in audience), Datenshi (crew members visible; stock footage has people)

Videos filmed entirely in black and white (no tinting or monochromatic schemes):
Loop, Somewhere Nowhere, Mienai Mono Wo Miyou To Suru Gokai    Subete Gokai Da, Loop Mark II

Videos filmed with a camera panning 360 degrees:
Jupiter, Galaxy

Videos set entirely outdoors:
Dream or Truth, Illusion, Kyokutou Yori Ai Wo Komete, Kuchizuke

Videos set in a recording studio:
Glamorous

Videos set to look like their rehearsal space:
Bishuu Love, Igniter, Ophelia

Videos where all the members sing in unison at some point:
National Media Boys, The World is Yours

Videos where all the members hold hands and walk around in a circle:
Rakuen (Inori Negai)

Videos where the members have painted face (other than the usual make-up):
Physical Neurose, Die, Mienai Mono Wo Miyou To Suru Gokai    Subete Gokai Da, Bran-New Lover, Gensou No Hana (Atsushi), Galaxy

Videos where members never play an instrument:
Love Me, Kiss Me Good-Bye, Love Letter, Kodo, Rakuen (Inori Negai), Aikawarazu No "Are" No Katamari Ga Nosabaru Hedo No Soko No Fuki Damari, Misshitsu, Trans

Videos where the members are arranged in a circle to play their instruments
Bishuu Love

Videos where Atsushi is writhing on a bed and then falls off:
Victims of Love, MAD

Videos where liquid falls on the members:
Sasayaki (goo), 21st Cherry Boy (milk on Hisashi)

Videos where women remove their underwear:
...In Heaven...

Videos with animals:
Love Me (dead bird prepared for cooking), Pleasure Land (various), Misty Blue (cat, birds), Angelic Conversation (various), Candy (dog), Miu (snake), Kagerou (mouse), Alice in Wonder Underground (rabbit, snakes), Datenshi (stock footage has animals)

Videos with image of Atsushi being projected onto Atsushi:
Misshitsu, Miu

Videos with religions imagery:
Misty Blue (Christianity), Jupiter (Christianity), Heaven (Christianity)

Videos with members smoking:
Victims of Love (Atsushi), Misty Blue (Atsushi), Sabbat (Atsushi, Hisashi, Toll), Love Letter (Atsushi, Hisashi, Hide), Kimi No Vanilla (Atsushi), Aikawarazu No "Are" No Katamari Ga Nosabaru Hedo No Soko No Fuki Damari (Atsushi), Itoshi No Rock Star (Atsushi), Glamorous (Hide), Kagerou (Atsushi poses with pipe)

Videos with candles, fire or fireworks (not related to smoking):
Physical Neurose, ...In Heaven..., National Media Boys, Maboroshi No Miyako, Sabbat, Kyokutou Yori Ai Wo Komete, Romance, Kagerou, Kuchizuke, Kogoeru

Videos with someone tied up in some manner:
MAD (Atsushi), Misshitsu (Atsushi), Sasayaki (Atsushi), Bran-New Lover (Atsushi), Trans (Hide is in a cage)

Videos with members not wearing shoes:
Victims of Love (Atsushi), MAD (Atsushi)

Videos with members wearing sunglasses:
Physical Neurose (U-ta), Love Letter (Hisashi), Kimi No Vanilla (Hide, Toll), Kagiri Naku Nezumi (Hide), Aikawarazu No "Are" No Katamari Ga Nosabaru Hedo No Soko No Fuki Damari (Atsushi), Itoshi No Rock Star (Atsushi), Mienai Mono Wo Miyou To Suru Gokai    Subete Gokai Da (Hisashi), Herione (Toll), Glamorous (Atsushi)

Videos with members dressed in costume:
National Media Boys (trenchcoat theme), Jupiter (Middle Eastern theme), Uta (dressed as famous foreign musicians), Bran-New Lover (futurism theme), Miu (American Old West theme), Kyokutou Yori Ai Wo Komete (reminiscent of "A Clockwork Orange"), Alice in Wonder Underground ("Donnie Darko"-esque rabbit masks), Heaven (members all in white)

Videos with members shirtless:
none

Videos with some sort of nudity:
Sexual XXXXX! (female), Victims of Love (female), Kiss Me Good-Bye (unidentified male but somehow I always thought it was Hisashi)

Videos with someone wielding a knife or sharp object:
...In Heaven... (extra), Maboroshi No Miyako (Atsushi), MAD (Atsushi), Alice in Wonder Underground (extra)

Videos with stop-motion animation:
Empty Girl (photo cut-outs), Love Me (various objects), Alice in Wonder Underground (various objects)

Videos with Tokyo Tower visible:
Illusion, Rendezvous