Yoshihide Otomo
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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. 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.
Filmography
- Street Kingdom: Make your own sound. (2026)
- Hokusai's Daughter (2025)
- After the Quake (2025)
- I Swear (2025)
- BAUS: The Ship's Voyage Continues (2025)
- Escape (2025)
- Gewalt no Mori - Kare ha Waseda de shinda (2024)
- All Lives (2024)
- City Hunter (2024)
- Goodbye Hoyaman (2023)
- We're Broke, My Lord! (2023)
- REVOLUTION+1 (2023)
- The Zen Diary (2022)
- Whereabouts of Sound (2022)
- Inu-Oh (2022)
- You've Got A Friend (2022)
- The Unnameable Dance (2022)
- Noise (2022)
- Olympiad Tokyo Kasumigaoka Public Apartments (2021)
- Backlight (2021)
- Whiplash of the Dead (2021)
- We Made a Beautiful Bouquet (2021)
- Keep Rolling (2020)
- Beneath the Shadow (2019)
- Taro the Fool (2019)
- When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes (2019)
- Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu (2018)
- The Fall of Icarus: Narita Stories (2017)
- Moon and Thunder (2017)
- Time to Dance (2016)
- Artist of Fasting (2016)
- Hana-Dama: Phantom (2016)
- The Actor (2016)
- Mother, I've Pretty Much Forgotten Your Face (2016)
- Orange (2015)
- Journey to the Shore (2015)
- Piece of Cake (2015)
- Hokusotan 2015 (Action Direct) (2015)
- The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories (2014)
- One for All, All for One (2014)
- Hana-Dama (2014)
- Passion (2013)
- Bozo (2013)
- Yellow Elephant (2013)
- Suzuki Sensei (2013)
- Amplified Gesture (2012)
- OLO, the Boy from Tibet (2012)
- We Don't Care About Music Anyway (2011)
- The Town's Children (2011)
- Abraxas (2010)
- Tokyo Island (2010)
- A Crowd of Three (2010)
- Le revenant (2010)
- Oh, My Buddha! (2009)
- Bare Essence of Life (2009)
- Kikoe (2009)
- Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War (2008)
- Muhlifein (2007)
- My Sister, My Love (2007)
- Prisoner/Terrorist (2007)
- AA (2006)
- Angel's Egg (2006)
- KOCHAB (2006)
- Dark Room Filled with Light (2006)
- Heart, Beating in the Dark (2005)
- Rampo Noir (2005)
- Canary (2005)
- Mind and Body (2004)
- Déracine (2004)
- Nor Noise (2004)
- Jump (2003)
- Blue (2003)
- Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp (2003)
- Iden & Tity (2003)
- Sorry (2002)
- Kai-On (2002)
- Concent (2002)
- Scanning of Modulations (2001)
- To the Backstreet: The Films Kenji Nakagami Left Out (2001)
- Kaza-hana (2001)
- Tokyo Elegy (1999)
- Dead Beat (1999)
- Wait and See (1998)
- Soft Skin (1998)
- Kitchen (1997)
- pierce LOVE&HATE (1997)
- TRANSIT ANARCHY (1997)
- The Stunt Woman (1996)
- Hu-Du-Men (1996)
- The Sun Has Ears (1996)
- Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Tokyo 1995: Unofficial Live Video (1995)
- Summer Snow (1995)
- Postman (1995)
- The Day the Sun Turned Cold (1994)
- Evil Dream (1994)
- The Blue Kite (1994)
- ZERO HOUR (1991)
- KICKS (1991)
- EXIT-B9 (1990)