Kenji Kawai
Born: 1957-04-23 in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Known For: Sound
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.
Filmography
2027
- Patlabor EZY: File 3 ... (Original Music Composer)
2026
- Patlabor EZY: File 1 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ultraman Teo ... (Music)
- The Criminal ... (Original Music Composer)
- Patlabor EZY: File 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Die Graue Hexe - Part 1 ... (Original Music Composer)
- うちの弁護士はまたしても手がかかる ... (Original Music Composer)
- 科捜研の女 ファイナル ... (Original Music Composer)
2025
- Umamusume: Cinderella Gray ... (Original Music Composer)
- Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise ... (Original Music Composer)
- Candlestick ... (Original Music Composer)
2024
- Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In ... (Original Music Composer)
- Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture ... (Music)
- Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture - Act 1 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture - Act 2 ... (Music)
2023
- The Fire Hunter ... (Original Music Composer)
- My Home Hero ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ōoku: The Inner Chambers ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe ... (Original Music Composer)
- Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 1 ... (Music)
- Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2 ... (Music)
2022
- Blood Friends ... (Original Music Composer)
- Toku: Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru ~Setsugetsuka~ Yuki no Maki ... (Original Music Composer)
2021
- Vlad Love ... (Original Music Composer)
- Limbo ... (Original Music Composer)
- Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West ... (Original Music Composer)
- Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the East ... (Music)
2020
- Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity ... (Original Music Composer)
- Remotely Killed ... (Original Music Composer)
2019
- No Guns Life ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ip Man 4: The Finale ... (Original Music Composer)
- Kamen Rider Build NEW WORLD: Kamen Rider Cross-Z ... (Original Music Composer)
- Kamen Rider Build NEW WORLD: Kamen Rider Grease ... (Original Music Composer)
- Shishigari ... (Original Music Composer)
2018
- The Ryuo's Work is Never Done! ... (Original Music Composer)
- Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms ... (Original Music Composer)
- Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!! ... (Original Music Composer)
- Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever ... (Original Music Composer)
- Kamen Rider Build: Be The One ... (Original Music Composer)
- Servamp Movie: Alice in the Garden ... (Music)
2017
- Resident Evil: Vendetta ... (Original Music Composer)
- Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sand Whale and Me ... (Music)
- BORDER The Urge Medical Examiner Mika HIGA ... (Original Music Composer)
- Dawn of the Nazis ... (Original Music Composer)
- BORDER Redemption ... (Original Music Composer)
- Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FINAL: Build & Ex-Aid with Legend Riders ... (Original Music Composer)
2016
- Mob Psycho 100 ... (Original Music Composer)
- JOKER GAME ... (Original Music Composer)
- RE:BORN ... (Original Music Composer)
- Servamp ... (Original Music Composer)
- Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru ... (Original Music Composer)
- 石川五右衛門 ... (Original Music Composer)
- G2.5 ... (Music)
2015
- The Perfect Insider ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ip Man 3 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Burning Flower ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Next Generation Patlabor: Tokyo War ... (Original Music Composer)
- Apocalypse: Stalin ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ghost Theater ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ghost Theater ... (Original Music Composer)
- Gamera ... (Original Music Composer)
- THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 7 ... (Music)
2014
- World Trigger ... (Music)
- Border ... (Music)
- Barakamon ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Next Generation: Patlabor ... (Original Music Composer)
- Garm Wars: The Last Druid ... (Music)
- The Perfect Insider ... (Music)
- Nezumi-Kozo, Running Around Edo ... (Original Music Composer)
- THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 2 ... (Music)
- Monsterz ... (Original Music Composer)
- Genome Hazard ... (Music)
- THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 3 ... (Music)
- Hakuouki: Warrior Spirit of the Blue Sky ... (Original Music Composer)
- THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 6 ... (Music)
- THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 1 ... (Music)
- Shitamachi Bobsleigh ... (Original Music Composer)
- THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 4 ... (Music)
- THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 5 ... (Music)
- Tomcat's Big Adventure ... (Music)
2013
- The Complex: Prologue ... (Original Music Composer)
- Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sadako 3D 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tales from the Dark 1 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tales from the Dark 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hakuouki: Wild Dance of Kyoto ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Complex ... (Original Music Composer)
- Higurashi: When They Cry - Outbreak ... (Music)
2012
- Umechan Sensei ... (Music)
- Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger ... (Music)
- 009 Re:Cyborg ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sadako 3D ... (Original Music Composer)
- NEXT A-Class ... (Music)
2011
- Gantz: Perfect Answer ... (Original Music Composer)
- Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler ... (Original Music Composer)
- Towa no Quon 3: The Complicity of Dreams ... (Original Music Composer)
- NHK Special: Unsolved Cases ... (Music)
- Tsukahara Bokuden ... (Music)
- Towa no Quon 6: Eternal Quon ... (Original Music Composer)
- Towa no Quon 5: The Return of the Invincible ... (Original Music Composer)
- Towa no Quon 1: The Ephemeral Petals ... (Original Music Composer)
- Towa no Quon 4: The Roaring Anxiety ... (Original Music Composer)
- Towa no Quon 2: Dancing Orchid in Chaos ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wild 7 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rabbit Horror ... (Original Music Composer)
- Xi AVANT ... (Music)
2010
- Gantz ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial ... (Original Music Composer)
- Chatroom ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: -A Wakening of the Trailblazer- ... (Original Music Composer)
- Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Incite Mill ... (Original Music Composer)
- ランデブー！ ... (Original Music Composer)
- Steel Frame ... (Original Music Composer)
- 009: The Reopening ... (Music)
- Ip Man 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
- 28½ ... (Original Music Composer)
- Shoka ... (Original Music Composer)
2009
- Eden of the East ... (Original Music Composer)
- Apocalypse: The Second World War ... (Music)
- Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden ... (Original Music Composer)
- Eden of The East Compilation: Air Communication ... (Music)
- Assault Girls ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Hovering Blade ... (Original Music Composer)
- Shrill Cries: Reshuffle ... (Music)
2008
- Death Note: L Change the WorLd ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ip Man ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ghost in the Shell 2.0 ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Sky Crawlers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Nanase Once More ... (Music)
- The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming ... (Original Music Composer)
- Shrill Cries of Summer ... (Original Music Composer)
- ＮＨＫスペシャル 沸騰都市 ... (Musician)
- Film director Mamoru Oshii: Turning fantasies into reality
- Orochi - Blood ... (Music)
- Kenji Kawai - Cinema Symphony as Composer
2007
- Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit ... (Music)
- Kaidan ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Women of Fast Food ... (Music)
2006
- Higurashi: When They Cry ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fate/stay night ... (Original Music Composer)
- Death Note ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Prince of Tennis: The National Tournament ... (Art Direction)
- Dragon Tiger Gate ... (Original Music Composer)
- Death Note: The Last Name ... (Original Music Composer)
- Battle of the Warriors ... (Original Music Composer)
- Trapped Ashes ... (Original Music Composer)
- Running Wild ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters as Hamburger Tetsu (voice)
2005
- Starship Operators ... (Music)
- Seven Swords ... (Original Music Composer)
- Reincarnation ... (Original Music Composer)
- Antarctic Journal ... (Original Music Composer)
- Open Your Mind ... (Music)
- Inferno ... (Original Music Composer)
2004
- Ultraman Nexus ... (Music)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence ... (Original Music Composer)
- Otogi Zoshi: The Legend of Magatama ... (Music)
- Windy Tales ... (Music)
- Premonition ... (Music)
- Kibakichi ... (Original Music Composer)
- Kibakichi 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
2003
- Tokyo Vein ... (Music)
2002
- Dark Water ... (Original Music Composer)
- Patlabor WXIII the Movie ... (Music)
- MiniPato ... (Music)
- Bloody Mallory ... (Original Music Composer)
- Samouraïs ... (Original Music Composer)
2001
- Avalon ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Princess Blade ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sadistic and Masochistic ... (Music)
- Unloved ... (Original Music Composer)
- G.R.M.: The Record Of Garm War ... (Music)
2000
- Chaos ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ghiblies ... (Music)
- Sleeping Bride ... (Original Music Composer)
1999
- The Woman of S.R.I. ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ring 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Dai-Guard: Terrestrial Defense Corp. ... (Music)
- You're Under Arrest: The Motion Picture ... (Music)
1998
- Ring ... (Original Music Composer)
1997
- Hyper Police ... (Music)
- Vampire Princess Miyu ... (Original Music Composer)
1996
- Hime-chan's Ribbon ... (Original Music Composer)
- Yat, The Space Patrol ... (Original Music Composer)
- Blue Seed Beyond ... (Music)
1995
- Ghost in the Shell ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sorcerer Hunters ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wild Knights Gulkeeva ... (Original Music Composer)
1994
- Blue Seed ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA ... (Music)
- Mighty Space Miners ... (Original Music Composer)
1993
- Patlabor 2: The Movie ... (Original Music Composer)
1992
- Talking Head ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wolf Guy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Patlabor: One Day of Noa ... (Original Music Composer)
1991
- Kekko Kamen ... (Original Music Composer)
- Go Nagai World ... (Music)
- Ranma 1/2 the Movie: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China ... (Original Music Composer)
- Luna Varga ... (Music)
- Mermaid Forest ... (Music)
- Burn Up ... (Music)
- DRAGON FIST ... (Music)
- Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops ... (Music)
- Mikadroid ... (Original Music Composer)
- Licca: Mysterious Magical Ring ... (Music)
1990
- Samurai Pizza Cats ... (Music)
- Patlabor: The New Files ... (Music)
- Devilman - Volume 2: Demon Bird ... (Music)
- MAROKO ... (Original Music Composer)
- Project A-Ko Versus Battle 1: Grey Side ... (Music)
- Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk III ... (Music)
- Hana no Asuka-gumi! 2: Lonely Cats Battle Royale ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk V ... (Music)
1989
- Patlabor: The TV Series ... (Music)
- Patlabor: The Movie ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk II ... (Music)
- All That Gundam ... (Music)
1988
- Patlabor: Early Days ... (Original Music Composer)
- Vampire Princess Miyu ... (Music)
- One Pound Gospel ... (Original Music Composer)
- Star Virgin ... (Original Music Composer)
- Vampire Princess Miyu ... (Music Editor)
1987
- The Red Spectacles ... (Original Music Composer)
- Twilight Q ... (Music)
- Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth ... (Music)
- Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future: Bio Dread Strike Mission ... (Music)
- Twilight Q ... (Music)
1971
- Kamen Rider ... (Music)