Kenji Kawai

male

Born on April 23, 1957 (68 years old)

From 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.

Cast Credits

2008
- Kenji Kawai - Cinema Symphony
  as
  Composer
  2008
- Film director Mamoru Oshii: Turning fantasies into reality
  2008
2006
- Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters
  as
  Hamburger Tetsu (voice)
  2006
2004
- The Making of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
  as
  Self
  2004
1995
- Ghost in the Shell: Production Report
  as
  Self
  1995

Crew Credits

2025
- Kamen Rider Majade with Girls Remix
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2025
- Smith Peaks
  as
  Music
  2025
- Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2025
- Candlestick
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2025
- Umamusume: Cinderella Gray
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2025
2024
- Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture - Act 1
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2024
- Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2024
- Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture - Act 2
  as
  Music
  2024
- Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture
  as
  Music
  2024
2023
- The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2023
- Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part1
  as
  Music
  2023
- Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
  as
  Music
  2023
- The Fire Hunter
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2023
- My Home Hero
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2023
- Ōoku: The Inner Chambers
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2023
2022
- Toku: Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru ~Setsugetsuka~ Yuki no Maki
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2022
- I Can't Stop Biting You
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2022
2021
- Limbo
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2021
- Vlad Love
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2021
- Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2021
- Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the East
  as
  Music
  2021
2020
- The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2020
- Remotely Killed
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2020
- Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2020
2019
- Shishigari
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2019
- Ip Man 4: The Finale
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2019
- Kamen Rider Build NEW WORLD: Kamen Rider Grease
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2019
- Kamen Rider Build NEW WORLD: Kamen Rider Cross-Z
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2019
- No Guns Life
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2019
2018
- Servamp Movie: Alice in the Garden
  as
  Music
  2018
- Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2018
- Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2018
- Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2018
- Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2018
- Kamen Rider Build The Movie: Be The One
  as
  Music
  2018
- The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2018
2017
- Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FINAL: Build & Ex-Aid with Legend Riders
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2017
- Resident Evil: Vendetta
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2017
- Dawn of the Nazis
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2017
- Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield
  as
  Music
  2017
- BORDER Redemption
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2017
- Sand Whale and Me
  as
  Music
  2017
- Sand Whale and Me
  as
  Mixing Engineer
  2017
- BORDER The Urge Medical Examiner Mika HIGA
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2017
2016
- RE:BORN
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2016
- Mob Psycho 100
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2016
- JOKER GAME
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2016
- Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2016
- Servamp
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2016
2015
- The Next Generation Patlabor: Tokyo War
  as
  Music
  2015
- THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー第7章
  as
  Music
  2015
- Ip Man 3
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2015
- Gamera
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2015
- Ghost Theater
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2015
- The Perfect Insider
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2015
- Ghost Theater
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2015
- Apocalypse: Stalin
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2015
2014
- Hakuouki: Warrior Spirit of the Blue Sky
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2014
- Genome Hazard
  as
  Music
  2014
- Garm Wars: The Last Druid
  as
  Music
  2014
- THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー第1章
  as
  Music
  2014
- THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー第2章
  as
  Music
  2014
- THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー第6章
  as
  Music
  2014
- THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー第4章
  as
  Music
  2014
- THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー第3章
  as
  Music
  2014
- THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー第5章
  as
  Music
  2014
- Tomcat's Big Adventure
  as
  Music
  2014
- Monsterz
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2014
- Nezumi-Kozo, Running Around Edo
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2014
- Border
  as
  Music
  2014
- The Perfect Insider
  as
  Music
  2014
- World Trigger
  as
  Music
  2014
- Barakamon
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2014
- The Next Generation: Patlabor
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2014
2013
- Higurashi: When They Cry - Outbreak
  as
  Music
  2013
- Tales from the Dark 2
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2013
- Hakuouki: Wild Dance of Kyoto
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2013
- Sadako 3D 2
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2013
- Tales from the Dark 1
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2013
- Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2013
- The Complex
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2013
- The Complex: Prologue
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2013
2012
- 009 Re:Cyborg
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2012
- NEXT A-Class
  as
  Music
  2012
- Sadako 3D
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2012
- Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger
  as
  Music
  2012
- Umechan Sensei
  as
  Music
  2012
2011
- Towa no Quon 1: The Ephemeral Petals
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2011
- Wild 7
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2011
- Towa no Quon 2: Dancing Orchid in Chaos
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2011
- Gantz: Perfect Answer
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2011
- Xi AVANT
  as
  Music
  2011
- Towa no Quon 3: The Complicity of Dreams
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2011
- Towa no Quon 5: The Return of the Invincible
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2011
- Rabbit Horror
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2011
- Towa no Quon 4: The Roaring Anxiety
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2011
- Towa no Quon 6: Eternal Quon
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2011
- Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2011
- Tsukahara Bokuden
  as
  Music
  2011
- NHKスペシャル未解決事件
  as
  Music
  2011
2010
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: -A Wakening of the Trailblazer-
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2010
- 28½
  as
  Music
  2010
- Shoka
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2010
- Gantz
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2010
- Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2010
- Ip Man 2
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2010
- Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2010
- Chatroom
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2010
- Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2010
- 009: The Reopening
  as
  Music
  2010
- The Incite Mill
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2010
- Steel Frame
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2010
2009
- Shrill Cries: Reshuffle
  as
  Music
  2009
- Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2009
- Assault Girls
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2009
- Eden of The East Compilation: Air Communication
  as
  Music
  2009
- The Hovering Blade
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2009
- Apocalypse: The Second World War
  as
  Music
  2009
- Eden of the East
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2009
2008
- Kenji Kawai - Cinema Symphony
  as
  Music
  2008
- Orochi - Blood
  as
  Music
  2008
- Ip Man
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2008
- The Sky Crawlers
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2008
- Ghost in the Shell 2.0
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2008
- The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2008
- Death Note: L Change the WorLd
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2008
- Shrill Cries of Summer
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2008
- Kenji Kawai - Cinema Symphony
  as
  Writer
  2008
- Nanase Once More
  as
  Music
  2008
- ＮＨＫスペシャル沸騰都市
  as
  Musician
  2008
2007
- The Women of Fast Food
  as
  Music
  2007
- Kaidan
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2007
- Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
  as
  Music
  2007
2006
- Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2006
- Death Note
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2006
- Death Note: The Last Name
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2006
- Trapped Ashes
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2006
- Battle of the Warriors
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2006
- Running Wild
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2006
- Dragon Tiger Gate
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2006
- The Prince of Tennis: The National Tournament
  as
  Art Direction
  2006
- Fate/stay night
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2006
2005
- Seven Swords
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2005
- Inferno
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2005
- Antarctic Journal
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2005
- Reincarnation
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2005
- Open Your Mind
  as
  Music
  2005
- Open Your Mind
  as
  Writer
  2005
- Starship Operators
  as
  Music
  2005
2004
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2004
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
  as
  Music
  2004
- Premonition
  as
  Music
  2004
- Kibakichi
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2004
- Kibakichi 2
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2004
- Windy Tales
  as
  Music
  2004
- Ultraman Nexus
  as
  Music
  2004
- Otogi Zoshi: The Legend of Magatama
  as
  Music
  2004
2003
- Tokyo Vein
  as
  Music
  2003
2002
- Dark Water
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2002
- Bloody Mallory
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2002
- Samouraïs
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2002
- Samouraïs
  as
  Music
  2002
- Patlabor WXIII The Movie
  as
  Music
  2002
- MiniPato
  as
  Music
  2002
2001
- Avalon
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2001
- The Princess Blade
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2001
- Sadistic and Masochistic
  as
  Music
  2001
- Unloved
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2001
2000
- Sleeping Bride
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2000
- Chaos
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2000
- Ghiblies
  as
  Music
  2000
1999
- Ring 2
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1999
- You're Under Arrest: The Motion Picture
  as
  Music
  1999
- The Woman of S.R.I.
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1999
- Dai-Guard: Terrestrial Defense Corp.
  as
  Music
  1999
1998
- Ring
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1998
1997
- Hyper Police
  as
  Music
  1997
- Vampire Princess Miyu
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1997
1996
- Blue Seed Beyond
  as
  Music
  1996
- Yat, The Space Patrol
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1996
1995
- Ghost in the Shell
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1995
- Wild Knights Gulkeeva
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1995
- Sorcerer Hunters
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1995
1994
- The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA
  as
  Music
  1994
- The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA
  as
  Songs
  1994
- Mighty Space Miners
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1994
1993
- Patlabor 2: The Movie
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1993
1992
- Talking Head
  as
  Music
  1992
- Patlabor: One Day of Noa
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1992
- Wolf Guy
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1992
1991
- Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1991
- no image
  I am Devilman, the Devil!
  as
  Music
  1991
- Ranma 1/2 the Movie: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1991
- Burn Up
  as
  Music
  1991
- Mermaid Forest
  as
  Music
  1991
- DRAGON FIST
  as
  Music
  1991
- Kekko Kamen
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1991
- Licca: Mysterious Magical Ring
  as
  Music
  1991
- Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops
  as
  Music
  1991
- Luna Varga
  as
  Music
  1991
1990
- MAROKO
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1990
- Devilman - Volume 2: Demon Bird
  as
  Music
  1990
- Hana no Asuka-gumi! 2: Lonely Cats Battle Royale
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1990
- Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk III
  as
  Music
  1990
- Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk V
  as
  Music
  1990
- Project A-Ko Versus Battle 1: Grey Side
  as
  Music
  1990
- Samurai Pizza Cats
  as
  Music
  1990
- Patlabor: The New Files
  as
  Music
  1990
1989
- All That Gundam
  as
  Music
  1989
- Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk II
  as
  Music
  1989
- Patlabor: The Movie
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1989
- Patlabor: The TV Series
  as
  Music
  1989
1988
- One Pound Gospel
  as
  Music
  1988
- Vampire Princess Miyu
  as
  Music Editor
  1988
- Star Virgin
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1988
- Patlabor: The Mobile Police
  as
  Music
  1988
- Vampire Princess Miyu
  as
  Music
  1988
1987
- The Red Spectacles
  as
  Music
  1987
- Twilight Q
  as
  Music
  1987
- Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth
  as
  Music
  1987
- Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future: Bio Dread Strike Mission - Skill Level 2
  as
  Music
  1987
- Twilight Q
  as
  Music
  1987
1971
- Kamen Rider
  as
  Music
  1971

Kenji Kawai

Biography

Cast Credits

Kenji Kawai - Cinema Symphony

Film director Mamoru Oshii: Turning fantasies into reality

Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters

The Making of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Ghost in the Shell: Production Report

Crew Credits

Kamen Rider Majade with Girls Remix

Smith Peaks

Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise

Candlestick

Umamusume: Cinderella Gray

Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture - Act 1

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture - Act 2

Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture

The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe

Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part1

Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2

The Fire Hunter

My Home Hero

Ōoku: The Inner Chambers

Toku: Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru ~Setsugetsuka~ Yuki no Maki

I Can't Stop Biting You

Limbo

Vlad Love

Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West

Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the East

The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity

Remotely Killed

Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW

Shishigari

Ip Man 4: The Finale

Kamen Rider Build NEW WORLD: Kamen Rider Grease

Kamen Rider Build NEW WORLD: Kamen Rider Cross-Z

No Guns Life

Servamp Movie: Alice in the Garden

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings

Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever

Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!

Kamen Rider Build The Movie: Be The One

The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!

Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FINAL: Build & Ex-Aid with Legend Riders

Resident Evil: Vendetta

Dawn of the Nazis

Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield

BORDER Redemption

Sand Whale and Me

Sand Whale and Me

BORDER The Urge Medical Examiner Mika HIGA

RE:BORN

Mob Psycho 100

JOKER GAME

Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru

Servamp

The Next Generation Patlabor: Tokyo War

THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第7章

Ip Man 3

Gamera

Ghost Theater

The Perfect Insider

Ghost Theater

Apocalypse: Stalin

Hakuouki: Warrior Spirit of the Blue Sky

Genome Hazard

Garm Wars: The Last Druid

THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第1章

THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第2章

THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第6章

THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第4章

THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第3章

THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第5章

Tomcat's Big Adventure

Monsterz

Nezumi-Kozo, Running Around Edo

Border

The Perfect Insider

THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー第7章

THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー第1章

THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー第2章

THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー第6章

THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー第4章

THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー第3章

THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー第5章

NHKスペシャル未解決事件

ＮＨＫスペシャル沸騰都市