Yoko Kanno
Known for: Sound
Born: March 18, 1963
Place of birth: Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Yoko Kanno (菅野 よう子, Kanno Yōko, born March 18, 1963) is a Japanese composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks of anime films, television series, live-action films, video games, and advertisements. She was born in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop and its live-action adaptation, Darker than Black, Macross Plus, Turn A Gundam, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Kids on the Slope, Genesis of Aquarion and Terror in Resonance, and has worked with the directors Hirokazu Kore-eda, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichirō Watanabe and Shōji Kawamori. Kanno has also composed music for pop artists Maaya Sakamoto and Kyōko Koizumi. She is also a keyboardist, and is the frontwoman for the Seatbelts, who perform many of Kanno's compositions and soundtracks.
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Filmography
42 movies · 26 TV shows, newest first
7.6
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
2023
8.5
SPY x FAMILY
2022
6.5
Cowboy Bebop
2021
NR
Sangokushi 30th Anniversary Concert
2017
8.3
Naotora: The Lady Warlord
2017
7.6
Our Little Sister
2015
7.7
Terror in Resonance
2014
6.4
The World of Kanako
2014
7.5
Space Dandy
2014
8.5
Gochisousan
2013
6.4
Petal Dance
2013
7.0
Ein's Summer Vacation
2012
6.2
Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None
2012
7.7
Kids on the Slope
2012
7.0
Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell
2011
8.5
Maaya Sakamoto 15th Anniversary Live "Gift" at Nippon Budokan
2010
6.0
Surely Someday
2010
5.0
Macross Frontier Galaxy Tour Final in Budokan
2009
6.9
Macross Frontier: The False Songstress
2009
NR
Ring of Gundam
2009
NR
Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist
2009
7.9
Macross Frontier
2008
5.0
Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage
2008
4.4
Genesis of Aquarion: Wings of Genesis
2007
7.5
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
2007
6.5
Genius Party
2007
6.5
Say Hello for Me
2007
7.5
Darker than Black
2007
6.5
The Show Must Go On
2007
6.4
Honey and Clover
2006
7.8
Ōban Star-Racers
2006
7.3
Su-ki-da
2006
7.5
Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven
2006
NR
A Melody for My Father
2005
7.7
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man
2005
5.3
Ashura
2005
6.5
Aquarion
2005
7.5
Mind Game
2004
7.1
Kamikaze Girls
2004
6.0
Memories of Memories
2004
7.8
Wolf's Rain
2003
7.6
Macross Zero
2002
6.2
Woman of Water
2002
7.6
tokyo.sora
2002
8.2
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
2002
6.0
Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly
2002
6.0
Turn A Gundam I: Earth Light
2002
10.0
Tachikoma na hibi
2002
NR
Future Blues
2001
7.7
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
2001
6.5
Earth Maiden Arjuna
2001NR
Seatbelts: Souvenir of Tokyo
2001
6.6
Escaflowne: The Movie
2000
7.4
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
1999
6.9
Turn A Gundam
1999
7.6
Beautiful Sunday
1998
6.4
Brain Powerd
1998
8.5
Cowboy Bebop
1998
6.8
Noiseman Sound Insect
1997
7.4
Happy-Go-Lucky
1997
NR
I Can’t Study
1996
8.1
The Vision of Escaflowne
1996
7.5
Memories
1995
7.0
Macross Plus: The Movie
1995
7.0
Macross 7
1994
7.1
Macross Plus
1994
7.5
Yamato Takeru
1994
4.8
Please Save My Earth
1993