In 2015, Gackt made a cameo appearance in "Origami", a short film by director Cato Ochi. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. In the same year he voiced the characters Uesugi Kenshin and Sengoku Gackt, as well as provided the opening theme song of the mobile game "Sengoku Shura Soul". In early 2016, it was announced that Gackt was to have his first lead role after 14 years in the movie "Karanukan" (2018) directed by . The movie is set at the Yaeyama Islands of Okinawa, and Gackt portrays photographer Hikaru Ooyama who falls in love with a girl, Mami who mysteriously disappears. In the same year he voiced Maten Ruedo in the mobile game "Othellonia", was a voice actor for and provided opening and ending theme songs for the anime "Trickster", and also dubbed the main role played by Tom Hiddleston in the Japanese dub of "". In 2018, it was announced that Gackt will have a co-leading role as 18-year-old student Rei Asami in a live adaptation movie of the 1980s comedy manga , written by . The film was released in early 2019 to critical acclaim, and Gackt was nominated at the 43rd Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.