In April 2015 , Yoshiki was a guest speaker and performer at the New Economy Summit ( NES ) . In July , he performed at the Hyper Japan Festival in London , together with Toshi . Yoshiki performed with a string quartet at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival . The '' We Are X '' film , a documentary on X Japan and Yoshiki , premiered at Sundance and was selected for the World Cinema Documentary Competition . In November 2016 , he won the '' Asian Icon Award '' at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards in Tokyo . In 2016 , he embarked on another classical world tour , with performances in Tokyo and Osaka , and a Hong Kong show that had to be cancelled due to the promoter 's mistake and rescheduled as a free concert on December 30
2016 Sundance Film Festival
2016 Sundance Film Festival
Yoshiki (musician)