Known For
Sound
Born
Aug 01, 1959
Place of Birth
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Credits
115 titles
Yoshihide Otomo
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Street Kingdom: Make your own sound.
Original Music Composer
Rosanjin's Stove
Original Music Composer
Hokusai's Daughter
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After the Quake
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I Swear
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After the Quake
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BAUS: The Ship's Voyage Continues
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Escape
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Gewalt no Mori - Kare ha Waseda de shinda
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All Lives
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City Hunter
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Goodbye Hoyaman
Music
Tokumei!
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A Town Without Seasons
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We're Broke, My Lord!
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REVOLUTION+1
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LUPIN ZERO
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The Zen Diary
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Elpis
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Whereabouts of Sound
Self
Inu-Oh
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You've Got A Friend
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The Unnameable Dance
Self
Noise
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Shimobee
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Olympiad Tokyo Kasumigaoka Public Apartments
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Backlight
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Whiplash of the Dead
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We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
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Keep Rolling
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Beneath the Shadow
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Taro the Fool
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When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes
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Magi: The Tensho Boys' Embassy
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Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story
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Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
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The Fall of Icarus: Narita Stories
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Moon and Thunder
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Izakaya Fuji
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Time to Dance
Music
Hana-Dama: Phantom
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Artist of Fasting
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The Actor
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Mother, I've Pretty Much Forgotten Your Face
Self
Utenai Keikan
Music
Orange
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Journey to the Shore
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Piece of Cake
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Hokusotan 2015 (Action Direct)
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The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories
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