About
Kenji Kawai
Overview
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 |
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| 2008 | Film director Mamoru Oshii: Turning fantasies into reality | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2008 | Kenji Kawai - Cinema Symphony | Actor | Composer | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters | Actor | Hamburger Tetsu (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2004 | The Making of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 1995 | Ghost in the Shell: Production Report | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
Writing |
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| 2008 | Kenji Kawai - Cinema Symphony | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2005 | Open Your Mind | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
Sound |
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| 2024 | Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture | Sound | Music | 71 Good |
| 2024 | Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture Act 2 | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture Act 1 | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In | Sound | Original Music Composer | 61 Fair |
| 2023 | The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2023 | Ōoku: The Inner Chambers | Sound | Original Music Composer | 72 Good |
| 2023 | Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2 | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2023 | My Home Hero | Sound | Original Music Composer | 70 Good |
| 2023 | Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part1 | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2023 | The Fire Hunter | Sound | Original Music Composer | 67 Fair |
| 2022 | Toku: Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru ~Setsugetsuka~ Yuki no Maki | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2022 | I Can't Stop Biting You | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
| 2021 | Limbo | Sound | Original Music Composer | 62 Fair |
| 2021 | Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West | Sound | Original Music Composer | 70 Good |
| 2021 | Vlad Love | Sound | Original Music Composer | 67 Fair |
| 2020 | The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity | Sound | Original Music Composer | 63 Fair |
| 2020 | Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW | Sound | Original Music Composer | 72 Good |
| 2020 | Remotely Killed | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Ip Man 4: The Finale | Sound | Original Music Composer | 70 Good |
| 2019 | No Guns Life | Sound | Original Music Composer | 68 Fair |
| 2019 | Shishigari | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
| 2018 | Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FOREVER | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Kamen Rider Build The Movie: Be The One | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Servamp Movie: Alice in the Garden | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 2018 | Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!! | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms | Sound | Original Music Composer | 71 Good |
| 2018 | The Ryuo's Work is Never Done! | Sound | Original Music Composer | 67 Fair |
| 2017 | Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FINAL: Build & Ex-Aid with Legend Riders | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 2017 | Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield | Sound | Music | 60 Fair |
| 2017 | Resident Evil: Vendetta | Sound | Original Music Composer | 65 Fair |
| 2017 | Sand Whale and Me | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 2017 | Dawn of the Nazis | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru | Sound | Original Music Composer | 69 Fair |
| 2016 | RE:BORN | Sound | Original Music Composer | 62 Fair |
| 2016 | Mob Psycho 100 | Sound | Original Music Composer | 84 Very good |
| 2016 | Servamp | Sound | Original Music Composer | 77 Good |
| 2016 | JOKER GAME | Sound | Original Music Composer | 68 Fair |
| 2015 | Ip Man 3 | Sound | Original Music Composer | 67 Fair |
| 2015 | Apocalypse: Stalin | Sound | Original Music Composer | 70 Good |
| 2015 | The Perfect Insider | Sound | Original Music Composer | 68 Fair |
| 2015 | Gamera | Sound | Original Music Composer | 60 Fair |
| 2015 | The Next Generation Patlabor: Tokyo War | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2015 | THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第7章 | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Ghost Theater | Sound | Original Music Composer | 68 Fair |
| 2014 | Tomcat's Big Adventure | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 2014 | THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第6章 | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Garm Wars: The Last Druid | Sound | Music | 57 Average |
| 2014 | The Perfect Insider | Sound | Music | 70 Good |
| 2014 | THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第5章 | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2014 | THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第4章 | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2014 | THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第3章 | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Barakamon | Sound | Original Music Composer | 77 Good |
| 2014 | THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第2章 | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Border | Sound | Music | 69 Fair |
| 2014 | THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第1章 | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Hakuouki: Warrior Spirit of the Blue Sky | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2014 | The Next Generation: Patlabor | Sound | Original Music Composer | 69 Fair |
| 2014 | Genome Hazard | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Nezumi-Kozo, Running Around Edo | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
| 2013 | Tales From The Dark 2 | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 2013 | Sadako 3D 2 | Sound | Original Music Composer | 57 Average |
| 2013 | Hakuouki: Wild Dance of Kyoto | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 2013 | Higurashi: When They Cry - Kaku: Outbreak | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Tales From The Dark 1 | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 2013 | The Complex: Prologue | Sound | Original Music Composer | 68 Fair |
| 2012 | NEXT A-Class | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 2012 | 009 Re:Cyborg | Sound | Original Music Composer | 61 Fair |
| 2012 | Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger | Sound | Music | 72 Good |
| 2012 | Umechan Sensei | Sound | Music | 70 Good |
| 2011 | Wild 7 | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Tsukahara Bokuden | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 2011 | Towa no Quon 6: Eternal Quon | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler | Sound | Original Music Composer | 71 Good |
| 2011 | Towa no Quon 5: The Return of the Invincible | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Towa no Quon 4: The Roaring Anxiety | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Tormented | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 2011 | Towa no Quon 3: The Complicity of Dreams | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Towa no Quon 2: Dancing Orchid in Chaos | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Towa no Quon | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 2011 | Towa no Quon 1: The Ephemeral Petals | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Gantz: Perfect Answer | Sound | Original Music Composer | 61 Fair |
| 2011 | Xi AVANT | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 2010 | Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works | Sound | Original Music Composer | 60 Fair |
| 2010 | Gantz | Sound | Original Music Composer | 61 Fair |
| 2010 | 009: The Reopening | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Cyborg 009: The Reopening | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 2010 | Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: -A Wakening of the Trailblazer- | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Chatroom | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2010 | 28½ | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 2010 | Steel Frame | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
| 2010 | Ip Man 2 | Sound | Original Music Composer | 71 Good |
| 2010 | Shoka | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost | Sound | Original Music Composer | 60 Fair |
| 2009 | Assault Girls | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 2009 | Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden | Sound | Original Music Composer | 60 Fair |
| 2009 | The Hovering Blade | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 2009 | Apocalypse: The Second World War | Sound | Music | 77 Good |
| 2009 | Shrill Cries: Reshuffle | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Eden of the East | Sound | Original Music Composer | 70 Good |
| 2008 | Ip Man | Sound | Original Music Composer | 75 Good |
| 2008 | The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2008 | Nanase Once More | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 2008 | Orochi - Blood | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2008 | The Sky Crawlers | Sound | Original Music Composer | 60 Fair |
| 2008 | Ghost in the Shell 2.0 | Sound | Original Music Composer | 65 Fair |
| 2008 | ＮＨＫスペシャル 沸騰都市 | Sound | Musician | N/A N/A |
| 2008 | Shrill Cries of Summer | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 2008 | Kenji Kawai - Cinema Symphony | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2008 | Death Note: L Change the World | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2007 | The Women of Fast Food | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2007 | Kaidan | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2007 | Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Special: Nekogoroshi-hen | Sound | Sound | N/A N/A |
| 2007 | Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit | Sound | Music | 73 Good |
| 2006 | Battle of the Warriors | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Death Note: The Last Name | Sound | Original Music Composer | 64 Fair |
| 2006 | Trapped Ashes | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 2006 | Death Note | Sound | Original Music Composer | 65 Fair |
| 2006 | Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Running Wild | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Reincarnation | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Fate/stay night | Sound | Original Music Composer | 72 Good |
| 2005 | Inferno | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2005 | Seven Swords | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2005 | Open Your Mind | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 2005 | Antarctic Journal | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2005 | Starship Operators | Sound | Music | 69 Fair |
| 2004 | Premonition | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Ultraman Nexus | Sound | Music | 73 Good |
| 2004 | Windy Tales | Sound | Music | 69 Fair |
| 2004 | Otogi Zoshi: The Legend of Magatama | Sound | Music | 70 Good |
| 2004 | Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence | Sound | Original Music Composer | 67 Fair |
| 2004 | Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence | Sound | Music | 67 Fair |
| 2002 | Bloody Mallory | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 2002 | Samouraïs | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 2002 | Samouraïs | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 2002 | WXIII: Patlabor The Movie 3 | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2002 | MiniPato: Mobile Police Patlabor Minimum | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 2002 | Dark Water | Sound | Original Music Composer | 63 Fair |
| 2001 | The Princess Blade | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 2001 | Unloved | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Sadistic and Masochistic | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Avalon | Sound | Original Music Composer | 61 Fair |
| 2000 | Chaos | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Ghiblies | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 2000 | Sleeping Bride | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1999 | Dai-Guard: Terrestrial Defense Corp. | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 1999 | You're Under Arrest: The Motion Picture | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1999 | Ring 2 | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Ring | Sound | Original Music Composer | 67 Fair |
| 1997 | Vampire Princess Miyu | Sound | Original Music Composer | 69 Fair |
| 1997 | Hyper Police | Sound | Music | 69 Fair |
| 1996 | Blue Seed Beyond | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 1995 | Ghost in the Shell | Sound | Original Music Composer | 76 Good |
| 1995 | Sorcerer Hunters | Sound | Original Music Composer | 68 Fair |
| 1995 | Wild Knights Gulkeeva | Sound | Original Music Composer | 70 Good |
| 1994 | Mighty Space Miners | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
| 1994 | The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA | Sound | Songs | 70 Good |
| 1994 | The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA | Sound | Music | 70 Good |
| 1993 | Ranma ½ OAV | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 1993 | Patlabor 2: The Movie | Sound | Original Music Composer | 61 Fair |
| 1992 | Wolf Guy | Sound | Original Music Composer | 69 Fair |
| 1992 | Talking Head | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1992 | Patlabor: One Day of Noa | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
| 1991 | Ranma ½: The Movie — The Battle of Nekonron: The Fight to Break the Rules! | Sound | Original Music Composer | 61 Fair |
| 1991 | Licca: Mysterious Magical Ring | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Mermaid Forest | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1991 | Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Kekko Kamen | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Burn Up | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1991 | DRAGON FIST | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 1991 | Luna Varga | Sound | Music | 69 Fair |
| 1991 | I am Devilman, the Devil! | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1990 | Patlabor: The New Files | Sound | Music | 71 Good |
| 1990 | Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk V | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Project A-Ko Versus Battle 1: Grey Side | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Hana no Asuka-gumi! 2: Lonely Cats Battle Royale | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk III | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1990 | MAROKO | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Devilman - Volume 2: Demon Bird | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Samurai Pizza Cats | Sound | Music | 76 Good |
| 1989 | Patlabor: The TV Series | Sound | Music | 70 Good |
| 1989 | Patlabor: The Movie | Sound | Music | 61 Fair |
| 1989 | Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk II | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1989 | All That Gundam | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 1988 | One Pound Gospel | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1988 | Vampire Princess Miyu | Sound | Music Editor | 59 Average |
| 1988 | Vampire Princess Miyu | Sound | Music | 69 Fair |
| 1988 | Star Virgin | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1988 | Patlabor: The Mobile Police | Sound | Music | 70 Good |
| 1987 | Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1987 | Twilight Q | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1987 | Twilight Q | Sound | Music | 69 Fair |
| 1987 | The Red Spectacles | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
Art |
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| 2006 | Tennis no Ouji-sama: Zenkoku Taikai Hen | Art | Art Direction | 70 Good |
Crew |
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| 2017 | Sand Whale and Me | Crew | Mixing Engineer | N/A N/A |