Yoshihide Otomo

Known for SoundBorn 1959-08-01 (age 66)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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Abraxas

Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War

To the Backstreet: The Films Kenji Nakagami Left Out

BAUS: The Ship's Voyage Continues

Kitchen

A Town Without Seasons

Iden & Tity

Amachan

Rosanjin's Stove

After the Quake

Shimobee

Whiplash of the Dead

Keep Rolling

Hokusai's Daughter

The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories

Suzuki Sensei

Kaidan Horror Classics

Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

Evil Dream

Suzuki Sensei

Elpis

We're Broke, My Lord!

Postman

After the Quake

Inu-Oh

Summer Snow

LUPIN ZERO

Orange

The Zen Diary

Sorry

Wait and See

Escape

The Blue Kite

Goodbye Hoyaman

Backlight

The Stunt Woman

When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes

Izakaya Fuji

The Sun Has Ears

Utenai Keikan

Asunaro Sanzan Nana Byoushi

Mind and Body

The Long Goodbye

All Lives

City Hunter

Journey to the Shore

Blue