Yoshihide Otomo
Sound
1959-08-01 · 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.
Filmography
Street Kingdom: Make your own sound.
2026 · Movie
Rosanjin's Stove
2026 · Series
Hokusai's Daughter
2025 · Movie
After the Quake
2025 · Movie
I Swear
2025 · Movie
After the Quake
2025 · Series
BAUS: The Ship's Voyage Continues
2025 · Movie
Escape
2025 · Movie
Gewalt no Mori - Kare ha Waseda de shinda
2024 · Movie
All Lives
2024 · Movie
City Hunter
2024 · Movie
Goodbye Hoyaman
2023 · Movie
Tokumei!
2023 · Series
A Town Without Seasons
2023 · Series
We're Broke, My Lord!
2023 · Movie
REVOLUTION+1
2023 · Movie
LUPIN ZERO
2022 · Series
The Zen Diary
2022 · Movie
Elpis
2022 · Series
Whereabouts of Sound
2022 · Movie
Inu-Oh
2022 · Movie
You've Got A Friend
2022 · Movie
The Unnameable Dance
2022 · Movie
Noise
2022 · Movie
Shimobee
2022 · Series
Olympiad Tokyo Kasumigaoka Public Apartments
2021 · Movie
Backlight
2021 · Movie
Whiplash of the Dead
2021 · Movie
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
2021 · Movie
Keep Rolling
2020 · Movie
Beneath the Shadow
2019 · Movie
Taro the Fool
2019 · Movie
When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes
2019 · Movie
Magi: The Tensho Boys' Embassy
2019 · Series
Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story
2019 · Series
Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
2018 · Movie
The Fall of Icarus: Narita Stories
2017 · Movie
Moon and Thunder
2017 · Movie
Izakaya Fuji
2017 · Series
Time to Dance
2016 · Movie
Artist of Fasting
2016 · Movie
Hana-Dama: Phantom
2016 · Movie
The Actor
2016 · Movie
Mother, I've Pretty Much Forgotten Your Face
2016 · Movie
Utenai Keikan
2016 · Series
Orange
2015 · Movie
Journey to the Shore
2015 · Movie
Piece of Cake
2015 · Movie
Hokusotan 2015 (Action Direct)
2015 · Movie
The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories
2014 · Movie
One for All, All for One
2014 · Movie
Asunaro Sanzan Nana Byoushi
2014 · Series
The Long Goodbye
2014 · Series
Hana-Dama
2014 · Movie
Passion
2013 · Movie
Amachan
2013 · Series
Bozo
2013 · Movie
Yellow Elephant
2013 · Movie
Suzuki Sensei
2013 · Movie
Amplified Gesture
2012 · Movie
OLO, the Boy from Tibet
2012 · Movie
Suzuki Sensei
2011 · Series
The Town's Children
2011 · Movie
We Don't Care About Music Anyway
2011 · Movie
Abraxas
2010 · Movie
Tokyo Island
2010 · Movie
Kaidan Horror Classics
2010 · Series
A Crowd of Three
2010 · Movie
Le revenant
2010 · Movie
Oh, My Buddha!
2009 · Movie
Bare Essence of Life
2009 · Movie
Kikoe
2009 · Movie
Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War
2008 · Movie
Muhlifein
2007 · Movie
My Sister, My Love
2007 · Movie
Prisoner/Terrorist
2007 · Movie
AA
2006 · Movie
Angel's Egg
2006 · Movie
KOCHAB
2006 · Movie
Dark Room Filled with Light
2006 · Movie
Heart, Beating in the Dark
2005 · Movie
Rampo Noir
2005 · Movie
Canary
2005 · Movie
Mind and Body
2004 · Movie
Déracine
2004 · Movie
Nor Noise
2004 · Movie
Jump
2003 · Movie
Blue
2003 · Movie
Iden & Tity
2003 · Movie
Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp
2003 · Movie
Sorry
2002 · Movie
Kai-On
2002 · Movie
Concent
2002 · Movie
Scanning of Modulations
2001 · Movie
To the Backstreet: The Films Kenji Nakagami Left Out
2001 · Movie
Kaza-hana
2001 · Movie
Tokyo Elegy
1999 · Movie
Dead Beat
1999 · Movie
Wait and See
1998 · Movie
Soft Skin
1998 · Movie
Kitchen
1997 · Movie
pierce LOVE&HATE
1997 · Movie
TRANSIT ANARCHY
1997 · Movie
The Stunt Woman
1996 · Movie
Hu-Du-Men
1996 · Movie
The Sun Has Ears
1996 · Movie
Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Tokyo 1995: Unofficial Live Video
1995 · Movie
Summer Snow
1995 · Movie
Postman
1995 · Movie
The Day the Sun Turned Cold
1994 · Movie
Evil Dream
1994 · Movie
The Blue Kite
1994 · Movie
KICKS
1991 · Movie
ZERO HOUR
1991 · Movie
EXIT-B9
1990 · Movie