Kenji Shibasaki

Born: 1955-08-10 in Saitama, Japan

Known For: Sound

Biography

Born 1955 in Saitama, Japan, Kenji Shibasaki (柴崎憲治) is a sound effects engineer and President of Tokyo-based sound effects firm Arquebuse, which he co-founded with film director Takashi Miike in 1997. He has received numerous awards, including the 44th Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Sound Recording for Fukushima 50.

Filmography

2026

The Samurai and the Prisoner ... (Sound Effects)
Yamaguchi-kun Isn't So Bad ... (Sound Effects)
Service Oath ... (Sound Effects)
Seppuku: The Sun Goes Down ... (Sound Effects)

2025

Re/Member: The Last Night ... (Sound Effects)
The Final Piece ... (Sound Effects)
Suicide Notes Laid on the Table ... (Sound Effects)
Romantic Killer ... (Sound Effects)
Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope ... (Sound Effects)
Tamago ... (Sound Effects)

2024

11 Rebels ... (Sound Effects)
The Queen of Villains ... (Sound Effects)
Cloud ... (Sound Effects)
Angry Squad: The Civil Servant and the Seven Swindlers ... (Sound Effects)
The Yin Yang Master Zero ... (Sound Designer)
Broken Rage ... (Sound Effects)
Bushido ... (Sound Effects)
Gold Boy‎ ... (Sound Effects)
i ai ... (Sound Effects)
Brush of the God ... (Sound Effects)

2023

Blue Giant ... (Supervising Sound Effects Editor)
Tokyo Revengers 2 Part 2: Bloody Halloween - Final Battle ... (Sound Effects)
Kubi ... (Sound Designer)
Jigen Daisuke ... (Sound Designer)
Bad Lands ... (Sound Effects)
Masked Hearts ... (Sound Effects)

2022

Kamen Rider Black Sun ... (Sound Effects)
The Wandering Moon ... (Sound Effects)
Lesson in Murder ... (Sound Effects)
The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn ... (Sound Effects)

2021

RESIDENT EVIL: Infinite Darkness ... (Sound Designer)
Tokyo Revengers ... (Sound Effects)
Last of the Wolves ... (Sound Effects)
The Sun Stands Still ... (Sound Effects)
A Madder Red ... (Sound Effects)
HOKUSAI ... (Sound Effects)
Arc ... (Sound Effects)
Photograph of Memories ... (Sound Effects)

2020

Ju-On: Origins ... (Sound Effects)
Fukushima 50 ... (Sound Designer)
Crazy Samurai Musashi ... (Sound Effects)
Grand Blue ... (Sound Effects)
Signal 100 ... (Sound Effects)
Bela: Humanoid Monster ... (Sound Effects)
It Stopped Raining ... (Sound Effects)
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! ... (Sound Effects)
Independence of Japan ... (Sound Effects)

2019

Toshimaen: Haunted Park ... (Sound Effects)
Mio on the Shore ... (Sound Editor)
Fruits Delivery Service ... (Sound Effects)
To the Ends of the Earth ... (Sound Designer)
The World of Machida-kun ... (Sound Effects)

2018

Mirai ... (Sound Effects)
The Blood of Wolves ... (Sound Effects)
Killing for the Prosecution ... (Sound Effects)
Over Drive ... (Sound Effects)
Last Winter, We Parted ... (Sound Effects)
Sunny ... (Sound Effects)

2017

Resident Evil: Vendetta ... (Sound Designer)
CODE:MIRAGE ... (Sound Effects)
Outrage Coda ... (Sound Effects)
Sekigahara ... (Sound Effects)
Dawn of the Felines ... (Sound Effects)
Yurigokoro ... (Sound Effects)
The Anthem of the Heart ... (Sound Effects)
Sand Whale and Me ... (Sound Effects)
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue ... (Sound Effects)
Innocent Curse ... (Sound Effects)
Spark ... (Sound Effects)
Foreboding ... (Sound Effects Editor)

2016

In This Corner of the World ... (Sound Effects)
Twisted Justice ... (Sound Effects)
While the Women Are Sleeping ... (Sound Effects)
Good Morning Show ... (Sound Effects)

2015

125 Years Memory ... (Sound Designer)
Ju-on: The Final Curse ... (Sound Effects)
Grasshopper ... (Sound Effects)
The Next Generation Patlabor: Tokyo War ... (Sound Effects)
Ghost Theater ... (Sound Effects)
Kakekomi ... (Sound Effects)
UNFAIR: the end ... (Sound Effects)
The Lion Standing in the Wind ... (Sound Effects)
This Country's Sky ... (Sound Effects)

2014

As the Gods Will ... (Sound Effects)
Close Range Love ... (Sound Effects)
Crows Explode ... (Sound Effects)
Lupin the 3rd ... (Sound Effects)
Ju-on: The Beginning of the End ... (Sound Effects)
Kiki's Delivery Service ... (Sound Designer)
Monsterz ... (Sound Director)
Over Your Dead Body ... (Supervising Sound Editor)

2013

Detective in the Bar ... (Sound Effects)
Shield of Straw ... (Sound Effects)
Magical Sisters Yoyo & Nene ... (Sound Effects)
Ask This of Rikyu ... (Sound Effects)
Penance ... (Sound Effects)
The Complex ... (Sound Effects)
Reunion ... (Sound Effects)
The Devil's Path ... (Sound Effects)
A Boy Called H ... (Sound Effects)
Beautiful New Bay Area Project ... (Foley Artist)
Far Away, So Close ... (Sound Effects)

2012

Beyond Outrage ... (Sound Designer)
Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack ... (Sound Effects)
Lesson of the Evil ... (Sound Effects)
Sadako 3D ... (Sound Effects)
Always: Sunset on Third Street '64 ... (Sound Effects)
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home ... (Sound Effects)
Chronicle of My Mother ... (Sound Effects)

2011

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai ... (Sound Effects)
Dendera ... (Sound Effects)
Princess Toyotomi ... (Sound Effects)
UNFAIR: the answer ... (Sound Effects)
Cheers From Heaven ... (Sound Effects)
The Echo of Astro Boy's Footsteps as Self

2010

13 Assassins ... (Sound Effects)
Outrage ... (Sound Effects Editor)
Space Battleship Yamato ... (Sound Effects)
The Incite Mill ... (Sound Effects)
Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City ... (Sound Effects)
Surely Someday ... (Sound Effects)
The Sylvian Experiments ... (Sound Effects)

2009

Yatterman ... (Sound Effects Editor)
A Midsummer Night's Dream ... (Sound Effects)
The Unbroken ... (Sound Effects)
Ballad ... (Sound Effects)
Tajomaru: Avenging Blade ... (Sound Effects)
Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster ... (Sound Effects)
Nobody To Watch Over Me ... (Sound Effects)
Toad's Oil ... (Sound Effects)

2008

K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces ... (Sound Effects)
Achilles and the Tortoise ... (Sound Effects Editor)
The Most Beautiful Night In The World ... (Sound Effects)
Chesuto! ... (Sound Effects)
Climber's High ... (Sound Effects)
The Homeless Student ... (Sound Effects)

2007

Crows Zero ... (Sound Effects)
Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 ... (Sound Effects Designer)
Kaidan ... (Sound Effects)
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven ... (Sound Effects)

2005

The Great Yokai War ... (Sound Effects)
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade ... (Sound Effects)
Samurai Commando Mission 1549 ... (Sound Effects)
Azumi 2: Death or Love ... (Sound Effects)
Year One in the North ... (Sound Effects)
Madamada Abunai Deka ... (Sound Effects)

2004

Godzilla: Final Wars ... (Sound Effects)
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World ... (Sound Effects)
Zebraman ... (Sound Effects)
The Tesseract ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Tokyo: Level One ... (Sound Effects)

2003

Zatoichi ... (Sound Effects)
Worst by Chance ... (Sound Effects)
Ju-on: The Grudge 2 ... (Foley Supervisor)
Gun Crazy 4: Requiem for a Bodyguard ... (Sound Effects)
Battle Royale II: Requiem ... (Sound Effects)
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. ... (Sound Effects)
Aragami ... (Sound Effects Editor)
The Negotiator ... (Sound Effects)

2002

Ju-on: The Grudge ... (Sound Effects)
Dark Water ... (Sound Effects)
Shangri-La ... (Sound Effects Editor)
The Choice of Hercules ... (Sound Effects)

2001

Visitor Q ... (Sound Effects)
Inugami ... (Sound Effects)
Love Ghost ... (Sound Effects)
A True Record: The Last Sōkaiya ... (Sound Effects)

2000

Battle Royale ... (Sound Effects)
Audition ... (Sound Effects Editor)
Brother ... (Supervising Sound Editor)

1999

Ring 2 ... (Sound Effects)
Taboo ... (Sound Effects Editor)
Gemini ... (Sound)
Jubaku: Spellbound ... (Sound Effects)
Revenge ... (Sound Effects)

1998

Bullet Ballet ... (Sound Effects Editor)
Andromedia ... (Sound Effects)

1997

Bounce Ko Gals ... (Sound Effects)
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood ... (Sound Effects)

1996

Shall We Dance? ... (Sound Effects)
Door III ... (Foley Artist)

1995

Tokyo Fist ... (Sound Designer)
August in the Water ... (Sound Effects Editor)
Trouble-Shooters ... (Sound)

1994

Kiriko ... (Sound Effects Editor)

1990

Cyber City Oedo 808 ... (Sound Effects)
Tuff Part I - Origin ... (Sound Effects)

1984

Galactic Patrol Lensman ... (Sound Effects)