Kenji Kawai

69, from Shinagawa, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

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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.

Timeline

2027Future projects

  • Poster for Patlabor EZY File 3

    Original Music Composer

2026Aged 69

2025Aged 68

  • Poster for Candlestick

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise

    Original Music Composer

2024Aged 67

  • Poster for Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture - Act 1

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture - Act 2

    Music

2023Aged 66

  • Poster for Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 1

    Music

  • Poster for Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2

    Music

  • Poster for The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe

    Original Music Composer

2022Aged 65

  • Poster for Blood Friends

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Toku: Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru ~Setsugetsuka~ Yuki no Maki

    Original Music Composer

2021Aged 64

  • Poster for Limbo

    Original Music Composer

2020Aged 63

  • Poster for Remotely Killed

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity

    Original Music Composer

2019Aged 62

  • Poster for Kamen Rider Build NEW WORLD: Kamen Rider Cross-Z

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Kamen Rider Build NEW WORLD: Kamen Rider Grease

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Shishigari

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Ip Man 4: The Finale

    Original Music Composer

2018Aged 61

  • Poster for Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

    Mixing Engineer

  • Poster for Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Servamp Movie: Alice in the Garden

    Music

  • Poster for Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Kamen Rider Build: Be The One

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever

    Original Music Composer

2017Aged 60

  • Poster for Dawn of the Nazis

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Resident Evil: Vendetta

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for BORDER Redemption

    Original Music Composer

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

    Original Music Composer

2016Aged 59

  • Poster for G2.5

    Music

  • Poster for RE:BORN

    Original Music Composer

2015Aged 58

  • Poster for THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 7

    Music

  • Poster for The Next Generation Patlabor: Tokyo War

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Gamera

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Ghost Theater

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Ip Man 3

    Original Music Composer

2014Aged 57

  • Poster for Genome Hazard

    Music

  • Poster for Hakuouki: Warrior Spirit of the Blue Sky

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 1

    Music

  • Poster for Monsterz

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 2

    Music

  • Poster for THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 3

    Music

  • Poster for THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 4

    Music

  • Poster for THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 5

    Music

  • Poster for Garm Wars: The Last Druid

    Music

  • Poster for THE NEXT GENERATION Patlabor: Chapter 6

    Music

  • Poster for Tomcat's Big Adventure

    Music

2013Aged 56

  • Poster for The Complex

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Tales from the Dark 1

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Higurashi: When They Cry - Outbreak

    Music

  • Poster for Hakuouki: Wild Dance of Kyoto

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Sadako 3D 2

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Tales from the Dark 2

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon

    Original Music Composer

2012Aged 55

  • Poster for Sadako 3D

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for 009 Re:Cyborg

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for NEXT A-Class

    Music

2011Aged 54

  • Poster for Xi AVANT

    Music

  • Poster for Gantz: Perfect Answer

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Towa no Quon 1: The Ephemeral Petals

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Towa no Quon 2: Dancing Orchid in Chaos

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Towa no Quon 3: The Complicity of Dreams

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Rabbit Horror

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Towa no Quon 4: The Roaring Anxiety

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Towa no Quon 5: The Return of the Invincible

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Towa no Quon 6: Eternal Quon

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Wild 7

    Original Music Composer

2010Aged 53

  • Poster for Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Shoka

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Ip Man 2

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for ランデブー！

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for 28½

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Chatroom

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: -A Wakening of the Trailblazer-

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for 009: The Reopening

    Music

  • Poster for The Incite Mill

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Gantz

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial

    Original Music Composer

2009Aged 52

  • Poster for Shrill Cries: Reshuffle

    Music

  • Poster for Rain Fall

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Eden of The East Compilation: Air Communication

    Music

  • Poster for The Hovering Blade

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Assault Girls

    Original Music Composer

2008Aged 51

  • Poster for Kenji Kawai - Cinema Symphony

    Composer

  • Poster for Film director Mamoru Oshii: Turning fantasies into reality

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Death Note: L Change the WorLd

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Shrill Cries of Summer

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Ghost in the Shell 2.0

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for The Sky Crawlers

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Orochi - Blood

    Music

  • Poster for The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Ip Man

    Original Music Composer

2007Aged 50

  • Poster for Kaidan

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for The Women of Fast Food

    Music

2006Aged 49

  • Poster for Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters

    Hamburger Tetsu (voice)

  • Poster for Running Wild

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Death Note

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Dragon Tiger Gate

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Trapped Ashes

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Death Note: The Last Name

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Battle of the Warriors

    Original Music Composer

2005Aged 48

  • Poster for Antarctic Journal

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Open Your Mind

    Writer

  • Poster for Seven Swords

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Reincarnation

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Inferno

    Original Music Composer

2004Aged 47

  • Poster for Kibakichi

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

    Music

  • Poster for Kibakichi 2

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Premonition

    Music

2003Aged 46

  • Poster for Tokyo Vein

    Music

2002Aged 45

  • Poster for Dark Water

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Patlabor WXIII the Movie

    Music

  • Poster for Samouraïs

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Bloody Mallory

    Original Music Composer

2001Aged 44

  • Poster for Avalon

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Sadistic and Masochistic

    Music

  • Poster for G.R.M.: The Record Of Garm War

    Music

  • Poster for Unloved

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for The Princess Blade

    Original Music Composer

2000Aged 43

  • Poster for Sleeping Bride

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Ghiblies

    Music

  • Poster for Chaos

    Original Music Composer

1999Aged 42

  • Poster for Ring 2

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for You're Under Arrest: The Motion Picture

    Music

1998Aged 41

  • Poster for Ring

    Original Music Composer

1995Aged 38

  • Poster for Ghost in the Shell

    Original Music Composer

1994Aged 37

  • Poster for The Irresponsible Captain Tylor: Tylor's War

    Music

1993Aged 36

  • Poster for Patlabor 2: The Movie

    Original Music Composer

1992Aged 35

  • Poster for Patlabor: One Day of Noa

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Talking Head

    Original Music Composer

1991Aged 34

  • Poster for DRAGON FIST

    Music

  • Poster for Burn Up

    Music

  • Poster for Kekko Kamen

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops

    Music

  • Poster for Mikadroid

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Mermaid Forest

    Music

  • Poster for Licca: Mysterious Magical Ring

    Music

  • Poster for Ranma 1/2 the Movie: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China

    Original Music Composer

1990Aged 33

  • Poster for Devilman - Volume 2: Demon Bird

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for MAROKO

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk III

    Music

  • Poster for Hana no Asuka-gumi! 2: Lonely Cats Battle Royale

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Project A-Ko Versus Battle 1: Grey Side

    Music

  • Poster for Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk V

    Music

1989Aged 32

  • Poster for All That Gundam

    Music

  • Poster for Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk II

    Music

  • Poster for Patlabor: The Movie

    Original Music Composer

1988Aged 31

  • Poster for Star Virgin

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Vampire Princess Miyu

    Music Editor

  • Poster for One Pound Gospel

    Original Music Composer

1987Aged 30

  • Poster for Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future: Bio Dread Strike Mission

    Music

  • Poster for The Red Spectacles

    Original Music Composer

  • Poster for Twilight Q

    Music

  • Poster for Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth

    Original Music Composer

Year unknown

  • Poster for 哪吒传奇·龙与地下铁

    Music

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