Yoshihide Otomo
Known for: Sound
Born: August 1, 1959
Place of birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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.
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Filmography
99 movies · 16 TV shows, newest first
5.2
Street Kingdom: Make your own sound.
2026
8.0
Rosanjin's Stove
2026
7.8
Hokusai's Daughter
2025
8.0
After the Quake
2025
6.5
I Swear
2025
7.5
After the Quake
2025
9.4
BAUS: The Ship's Voyage Continues
2025
7.0
Escape
2025
NR
Gewalt no Mori - Kare ha Waseda de shinda
2024
7.3
All Lives
2024
6.5
City Hunter
2024
7.0
Goodbye Hoyaman
2023
6.7
Tokumei!
2023
8.0
A Town Without Seasons
2023
7.4
We're Broke, My Lord!
2023
6.1
REVOLUTION+1
2023
7.3
LUPIN ZERO
2022
7.2
The Zen Diary
2022
7.7
Elpis
2022
NR
Whereabouts of Sound
2022
7.4
Inu-Oh
2022
5.2
You've Got A Friend
2022
NR
The Unnameable Dance
2022
5.9
Noise
2022
8.0
Shimobee
2022
NR
Olympiad Tokyo Kasumigaoka Public Apartments
2021
7.0
Backlight
2021
8.0
Whiplash of the Dead
2021
7.7
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
2021
8.0
Keep Rolling
2020
5.5
Beneath the Shadow
2019
NR
Taro the Fool
2019
7.0
When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes
2019
6.0
Magi: The Tensho Boys' Embassy
2019
7.8
Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story
2019
NR
Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
2018
NR
The Fall of Icarus: Narita Stories
2017
2.0
Moon and Thunder
2017
7.0
Izakaya Fuji
2017
NR
Time to Dance
2016
4.8
Artist of Fasting
2016
6.0
Hana-Dama: Phantom
2016
6.2
The Actor
2016
NR
Mother, I've Pretty Much Forgotten Your Face
2016
7.0
Utenai Keikan
2016
7.3
Orange
2015
6.5
Journey to the Shore
2015
5.0
Piece of Cake
2015
NR
Hokusotan 2015 (Action Direct)
2015
8.0
The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories
2014
NR
One for All, All for One
2014
7.0
Asunaro Sanzan Nana Byoushi
2014
6.8
The Long Goodbye
2014
6.2
Hana-Dama
2014
4.4
Passion
2013
8.1
Amachan
2013
5.7
Bozo
2013
5.9
Yellow Elephant
2013
7.8
Suzuki Sensei
2013
NR
Amplified Gesture
2012
NR
OLO, the Boy from Tibet
2012
8.0
Suzuki Sensei
2011
6.3
We Don't Care About Music Anyway
2011
NR
The Town's Children
2011
10.0
Abraxas
2010
5.0
Tokyo Island
2010
8.0
Kaidan Horror Classics
2010
4.9
A Crowd of Three
2010
NR
Le revenant
2010
6.0
Oh, My Buddha!
2009
6.0
Bare Essence of Life
2009
NR
Kikoe
2009
10.0
Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War
2008
NR
Muhlifein
2007
5.6
My Sister, My Love
2007
5.0
Prisoner/Terrorist
2007
4.6
AA
2006
6.5
Angel's Egg
2006
NR
KOCHAB
2006
NR
Dark Room Filled with Light
2006
5.5
Heart, Beating in the Dark
2005
5.7
Rampo Noir
2005
6.2
Canary
2005
7.1
Mind and Body
2004
3.7
Déracine
2004
NR
Nor Noise
2004
6.0
Jump
2003
6.5
Blue
2003
5.5
Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp
2003
8.5
Iden & Tity
2003
7.3
Sorry
2002
NR
Kai-On
2002
4.9
Concent
2002
NR
Scanning of Modulations
2001
10.0
To the Backstreet: The Films Kenji Nakagami Left Out
2001
5.6
Kaza-hana
2001
3.6
Tokyo Elegy
1999
NR
Dead Beat
1999
7.3
Wait and See
1998
6.4
Soft Skin
1998
8.7
Kitchen
1997
6.0
pierce LOVE&HATE
1997NR
TRANSIT ANARCHY
1997
7.2
The Stunt Woman
1996
5.1
Hu-Du-Men
1996
7.2
The Sun Has Ears
1996
NR
Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Tokyo 1995: Unofficial Live Video
1995
7.5
Summer Snow
1995
7.6
Postman
1995
5.8
The Day the Sun Turned Cold
1994
8.0
Evil Dream
1994
7.3
The Blue Kite
1994
NR
ZERO HOUR
1991NR
KICKS
1991NR
EXIT-B9
1990