Yoshihide Otomo

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Yoshihide Otomo

Sound 67 August 1, 1959

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Otomo Yoshihide (大友 良英, Otomo Yoshihide, born 1 August 1959) is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist known for his work in experimental music, free improvisation, and fil…

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City Hunter

City Hunter

6.5 2024 Movie
Amachan

Amachan

8.1 2013 TV Show
Inu-Oh

Inu-Oh

7.4 2022 Movie
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

7.7 2021 Movie
Orange

Orange

7.3 2015 Movie
Journey to the Shore

Journey to the Shore

6.5 2015 Movie
Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story

Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story

7.8 2019 TV Show
The Blue Kite

The Blue Kite

7.2 1994 Movie
LUPIN ZERO

LUPIN ZERO

7.3 2022 TV Show
Blue

Blue

6.5 2003 Movie
A Town Without Seasons

A Town Without Seasons

8.0 2023 TV Show
Rampo Noir

Rampo Noir

5.7 2005 Movie

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Otomo Yoshihide (大友 良英, Otomo Yoshihide, born 1 August 1959) is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist known for his work in experimental music, free improvisation, and film scoring. Emerging in the 1990s as the leader of the experimental group Ground Zero, he became an influential figure in avant-garde and electroacoustic improvisation. Otomo has built an extensive career as a composer for film and television, contributing music to dozens of projects across Asia and beyond. His early film work includes The Blue Kite (1993), The Day the Sun Turned Cold (1994), and Blue (2002), with the reception of his 1994 score helping establish his reputation in cinema. His most widely recognized work is the soundtrack for the NHK television drama Amachan (2013), which became a major commercial success, reaching No. 5 on the Oricon Albums Chart and earning him the Japan Record Award. Beyond music, he is also known for founding Project FUKUSHIMA! following the 2011 earthquake, for which he received the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts in 2012.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    Street Kingdom: Make your own sound.

    Movie Original Music Composer

  2. 2026
    Rosanjin's Stove

    TV show Original Music Composer

  3. 2025
    Hokusai's Daughter

    Movie Original Music Composer

  4. 2025
    After the Quake

    Movie Original Music Composer

  5. 2025
    I Swear

    Movie Original Music Composer

  6. 2025
    After the Quake

    TV show Original Music Composer

  7. 2025
    BAUS: The Ship's Voyage Continues

    Movie Original Music Composer

  8. 2025
    Escape

    Movie Original Music Composer

  9. 2024
    Gewalt no Mori - Kare ha Waseda de shinda

    Movie Original Music Composer

  10. 2024
    All Lives

    Movie Original Music Composer

  11. 2024
    City Hunter

    Movie Original Music Composer

  12. 2023
    Goodbye Hoyaman

    Movie Music

  13. 2023
    Tokumei!

    TV show Original Music Composer

  14. 2023
    A Town Without Seasons

    TV show Original Music Composer

  15. 2023
    We're Broke, My Lord!

    Movie Original Music Composer

  16. 2023
    REVOLUTION+1

    Movie Original Music Composer

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  1. 2022
    LUPIN ZERO

    TV show Original Music Composer

  2. 2022
    The Zen Diary

    Movie Original Music Composer

  3. 2022
    Elpis

    TV show Original Music Composer

  4. 2022
    Whereabouts of Sound

    Movie Self

  5. 2022
    Inu-Oh

    Movie Original Music Composer

  6. 2022
    You've Got A Friend

    Movie Original Music Composer

  7. 2022
    The Unnameable Dance

    Movie Self

  8. 2022
    Noise

    Movie Original Music Composer

  9. 2022
    Shimobee

    TV show Original Music Composer

  10. 2021
    Olympiad Tokyo Kasumigaoka Public Apartments

    Movie Original Music Composer

  11. 2021
    Backlight

    Movie Original Music Composer

  12. 2021
    Whiplash of the Dead

    Movie Original Music Composer

  13. 2021
    We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

    Movie Original Music Composer

  14. 2020
    Keep Rolling

    Movie Original Music Composer

  15. 2019
    Beneath the Shadow

    Movie Original Music Composer

  16. 2019
    Taro the Fool

    Movie Original Music Composer

  17. 2019
    When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes

    Movie Original Music Composer

  18. 2019
    Magi: The Tensho Boys' Embassy

    TV show Original Music Composer

  19. 2019
    Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story

    TV show Original Music Composer

  20. 2018
    Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu

    Movie Original Music Composer

  21. 2017
    The Fall of Icarus: Narita Stories

    Movie Original Music Composer

  22. 2017
    Moon and Thunder

    Movie Original Music Composer

  23. 2017
    Izakaya Fuji

    TV show Original Music Composer

  24. 2016
    Time to Dance

    Movie Music