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
2026
- Ultraman Teo ... (Music)
- Patlabor EZY: File 1 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Patlabor EZY File 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
- うちの弁護士はまたしても手がかかる ... (Original Music Composer)
- Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Die Graue Hexe - Part 1 ... (Music)
2025
- Umamusume: Cinderella Gray ... (Original Music Composer)
- Candlestick ... (Original Music Composer)
- Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise ... (Original Music Composer)
2024
- Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture ... (Music)
- Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In ... (Original Music Composer)
- 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)
- Kamen Rider Build The Movie: Be The One ... (Music)
- Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!! ... (Original Music Composer)
- Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever ... (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 ... (Mixing Engineer)
- 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)
- Servamp ... (Original Music Composer)
- RE:BORN ... (Original Music Composer)
- Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru ... (Original Music Composer)
- G2.5 ... (Music)
2015
- The Perfect Insider ... (Original Music Composer)
- Burning Flower ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ip Man 3 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ghost Theater ... (Original Music Composer)
- Apocalypse: Stalin ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Next Generation Patlabor: Tokyo War ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ghost Theater ... (Original Music Composer)
- Gamera ... (Original Music Composer)
- THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 7 ... (Music)
2014
- World Trigger ... (Music)
- Barakamon ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Next Generation: Patlabor ... (Original Music Composer)
- Border ... (Music)
- The Perfect Insider ... (Music)
- Nezumi-Kozo, Running Around Edo ... (Original Music Composer)
- Genome Hazard ... (Music)
- Garm Wars: The Last Druid ... (Music)
- Monsterz ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hakuouki: Warrior Spirit of the Blue Sky ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tomcat's Big Adventure ... (Music)
- THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 3 ... (Music)
- THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 6 ... (Music)
- THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 1 ... (Music)
- THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 2 ... (Music)
- THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 5 ... (Music)
- THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 4 ... (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)
- Hakuouki: Wild Dance of Kyoto ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tales from the Dark 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Higurashi: When They Cry - Outbreak ... (Music)
- The Complex ... (Original Music Composer)
2012
- Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger ... (Music)
- Umechan Sensei ... (Music)
- 009 Re:Cyborg ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sadako 3D ... (Original Music Composer)
- NEXT A-Class ... (Music)
2011
- Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler ... (Original Music Composer)
- NHK Special: Unsolved Cases ... (Music)
- Gantz: Perfect Answer ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tsukahara Bokuden ... (Music)
- Towa no Quon 3: The Complicity of Dreams ... (Original Music Composer)
- Towa no Quon 6: Eternal Quon ... (Original Music Composer)
- Towa no Quon 4: The Roaring Anxiety ... (Original Music Composer)
- Towa no Quon 5: The Return of the Invincible ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rabbit Horror ... (Original Music Composer)
- Towa no Quon 1: The Ephemeral Petals ... (Original Music Composer)
- Xi AVANT ... (Music)
- Towa no Quon 2: Dancing Orchid in Chaos ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wild 7 ... (Original Music Composer)
2010
- Gantz ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial ... (Original Music Composer)
- Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost ... (Original Music Composer)
- Chatroom ... (Original Music Composer)
- Steel Frame ... (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)
- The Incite Mill ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ip Man 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Shoka ... (Original Music Composer)
- 28½ ... (Original Music Composer)
- 009: The Reopening ... (Music)
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)
- Assault Girls ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Hovering Blade ... (Original Music Composer)
- Eden of The East Compilation: Air Communication ... (Music)
- Shrill Cries: Reshuffle ... (Music)
2008
- Ip Man ... (Original Music Composer)
- Death Note: L Change the WorLd ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Sky Crawlers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ghost in the Shell 2.0 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Nanase Once More ... (Music)
- The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming ... (Original Music Composer)
- ＮＨＫスペシャル 沸騰都市 ... (Musician)
- Shrill Cries of Summer ... (Original Music Composer)
- 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)
- The Prince of Tennis: The National Tournament ... (Art Direction)
- Death Note ... (Original Music Composer)
- 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
- Otogi Zoshi: The Legend of Magatama ... (Music)
- Ultraman Nexus ... (Music)
- Windy Tales ... (Music)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence ... (Original Music Composer)
- Premonition ... (Music)
- Kibakichi ... (Original Music Composer)
- Kibakichi 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
2003
- Tokyo Vein ... (Music)
2002
- MiniPato ... (Music)
- Dark Water ... (Original Music Composer)
- Patlabor WXIII the Movie ... (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)
- G.R.M.: The Record Of Garm War ... (Music)
- Unloved ... (Original Music Composer)
2000
- Chaos ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ghiblies ... (Music)
- Sleeping Bride ... (Original Music Composer)
1999
- The Woman of S.R.I. ... (Original Music Composer)
- Dai-Guard: Terrestrial Defense Corp. ... (Music)
- Ring 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
- 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)
- Blue Seed Beyond ... (Music)
- Yat, The Space Patrol ... (Original Music Composer)
1995
- Ghost in the Shell ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wild Knights Gulkeeva ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sorcerer Hunters ... (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
- Patlabor: One Day of Noa ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wolf Guy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Talking Head ... (Original Music Composer)
1991
- Luna Varga ... (Music)
- Go Nagai World ... (Music)
- DRAGON FIST ... (Music)
- Ranma 1/2 the Movie: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China ... (Original Music Composer)
- Kekko Kamen ... (Original Music Composer)
- Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops ... (Music)
- Burn Up ... (Music)
- Mermaid Forest ... (Music)
- Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla ... (Original Music Composer)
- Licca: Mysterious Magical Ring ... (Music)
1990
- Samurai Pizza Cats ... (Music)
- Patlabor: The New Files ... (Music)
- Devilman - Volume 2: Demon Bird ... (Music)
- Project A-Ko Versus Battle 1: Grey Side ... (Music)
- MAROKO ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hana no Asuka-gumi! 2: Lonely Cats Battle Royale ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk V ... (Music)
- Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk III ... (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
- Twilight Q ... (Music)
- Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future: Bio Dread Strike Mission ... (Music)
- Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth ... (Music)
- Twilight Q ... (Music)
- The Red Spectacles ... (Original Music Composer)
1971
- Kamen Rider ... (Music)