Yoshihide Otomo
Sound
- Born
- August 1, 1959 (age 67) · 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.
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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
City Hunter
April 24, 2024
Inu-Oh
May 28, 2022
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
January 29, 2021
Orange
December 12, 2015
Journey to the Shore
September 30, 2015
The Blue Kite
February 2, 1994
Blue
March 29, 2003
Rampo Noir
May 11, 2005
My Sister, My Love
June 6, 2007
Summer Snow
May 4, 1995
Kaza-hana
January 27, 2001
The Stunt Woman
October 10, 1996
Behind the camera89
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- 2023