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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1957-04-23 (68 years old)

Place of Birth

Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan

Kenji Kawai

Biography:

Kenji Kawai is a Japanese music composer for video games, television and movies. He has contributed to the musical scores for numerous films from Japan and other Asian countries, working in film genres as diverse as anime, horror, sci-fi and historical epic.

Known For

Acting

2008

2006

2004

1995

Sound

2025

Umamusume: Cinderella Gray as Original Music Composer

2023

The Fire Hunter as Original Music Composer
My Home Hero as Original Music Composer
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers as Original Music Composer

2022

I Can't Stop Biting You as Original Music Composer

2021

Limbo as Original Music Composer
Vlad Love as Original Music Composer
Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West as Original Music Composer

2020

The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity as Original Music Composer
Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW as Original Music Composer

2019

Shishigari as Original Music Composer
Ip Man 4: The Finale as Original Music Composer
No Guns Life as Original Music Composer

2016

RE:BORN as Original Music Composer
Mob Psycho 100 as Original Music Composer
JOKER GAME as Original Music Composer
Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru as Original Music Composer
Servamp as Original Music Composer

2015

Ip Man 3 as Original Music Composer
Gamera as Original Music Composer
The Perfect Insider as Original Music Composer
Ghost Theater as Original Music Composer
Apocalypse: Stalin as Original Music Composer

2013

Tales from the Dark 2 as Original Music Composer
Sadako 3D 2 as Original Music Composer
Hakuouki: Wild Dance of Kyoto as Original Music Composer
Tales from the Dark 1 as Original Music Composer
The Complex: Prologue as Original Music Composer

2012

009 Re:Cyborg as Original Music Composer
NEXT A-Class as Music

2011

Towa no Quon 1: The Ephemeral Petals as Original Music Composer
Wild 7 as Original Music Composer
Towa no Quon 2: Dancing Orchid in Chaos as Original Music Composer
Gantz: Perfect Answer as Original Music Composer
Xi AVANT as Music
Tormented as Original Music Composer
Towa no Quon 3: The Complicity of Dreams as Original Music Composer
Towa no Quon 6: Eternal Quon as Original Music Composer
Towa no Quon 4: The Roaring Anxiety as Original Music Composer
Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler as Original Music Composer

2010

28½ as Music
Shoka as Original Music Composer
Gantz as Original Music Composer
Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial as Original Music Composer
Ip Man 2 as Original Music Composer
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works as Original Music Composer
Chatroom as Original Music Composer
Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost as Original Music Composer
Steel Frame as Original Music Composer

2009

Assault Girls as Original Music Composer
Eden of the East as Original Music Composer

2008

Ip Man as Original Music Composer
The Sky Crawlers as Original Music Composer
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 as Original Music Composer
The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming as Original Music Composer
Death Note: L Change the WorLd as Original Music Composer
Shrill Cries of Summer as Original Music Composer

2007

Kaidan as Original Music Composer

2006

Death Note: The Last Name as Original Music Composer
Reincarnation as Original Music Composer
Trapped Ashes as Original Music Composer
Battle of the Warriors as Original Music Composer
Death Note as Original Music Composer
Running Wild as Original Music Composer
Fate/stay night as Original Music Composer

2005

Seven Swords as Original Music Composer
Inferno as Original Music Composer
Antarctic Journal as Original Music Composer

2002

Dark Water as Original Music Composer
Bloody Mallory as Original Music Composer
Samouraïs as Original Music Composer
Samouraïs as Music

2001

Avalon as Original Music Composer
The Princess Blade as Original Music Composer
Unloved as Original Music Composer

2000

Sleeping Bride as Original Music Composer
Chaos as Original Music Composer
Ghiblies as Music

1999

Ring 2 as Original Music Composer
The Woman of S.R.I. as Original Music Composer

1998

Ring as Original Music Composer

1997

Hyper Police as Music
Vampire Princess Miyu as Original Music Composer

1996

Yat, The Space Patrol as Original Music Composer

1995

Ghost in the Shell as Original Music Composer
Wild Knights Gulkeeva as Original Music Composer
Sorcerer Hunters as Original Music Composer

1993

Patlabor 2: The Movie as Original Music Composer

1992

Talking Head as Music
Patlabor: One Day of Noa as Original Music Composer
Wolf Guy as Original Music Composer

1989

Patlabor: The Movie as Original Music Composer

1988

Vampire Princess Miyu as Music Editor
Star Virgin as Original Music Composer

1971

Kamen Rider as Music

Writing

2005

Open Your Mind as Writer

Crew

2017

Sand Whale and Me as Mixing Engineer

Art