Gackt's introduction to filmmaking, in addition to music videos, came in 2001 and 2002 with two TV documentaries. First, he traveled to Madagascar for the TV show then participated in the children's documentary, "Hero's Hero", both aired on NHK. In 2003, he worked on the script and starred in his film, "Moon Child". It was released on April 19 in Japan, and screened on May 13 at the Cannes Film Festival and on April 12, 2004, at Philadelphia Film Festival. He voiced Seiji in the original video animation, "New Fist of the North Star", for which two of his older songs were used as themes and released as a single "". Gackt also assisted as a model and provided the voice and the motion capture for a main character in the video game "Bujingai" by Taito Corporation and Red Entertainment. His next involvement was in 2006, with the "Final Fantasy" franchise, for a video game ', and again in 2007 for a video game ', where the character Genesis Rhapsodos was modeled on, voiced and co-created by Gackt. Besides that, Gackt composed and performed two theme songs for the first game, which were released in the single "Redemption".