In 2007, Gackt played the Sengoku-period "daimyō" Uesugi Kenshin in the NHK Taiga drama, "Fūrin Kazan", for which he was nominated for the TV Navi award as best-supporting actor in a drama category. His only chart-topping single, "Returner (Yami no Shūen)", was the theme for the TV series. Gackt recalls that Kenshin was always portrayed as a very tough man. Thus his vision, which presented him clean-shaven and with long hair, received harsh criticism, but Ken Ogata expressed his approval and supported Gackt's work in the drama. In the same year Gackt was a voice actor in the Japanese dub of the French animated-live action film, "Arthur and the Minimoys". In 2008, Gackt was filming in Romania for his first international film debut, "Bunraku", which was released in 2010. The next year he appeared as a prisoner on death row in the second episode of the TV series, "Mr. Brain", and the film "".