Yoshihide Otomo
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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Films (100)
Almost Home
2026 · Original Music Composer
Street Kingdom: Make your own sound.
2026 · Original Music Composer
Hokusai's Daughter
2025 · Original Music Composer
Après le tremblement de terre
2025 · Original Music Composer
I Swear
2025 · Original Music Composer
BAUS: The Ship's Voyage Continues
2025 · Original Music Composer
Escape
2025 · Original Music Composer
Gewalt no Mori - Kare ha Waseda de shinda
2024 · Original Music Composer
All Lives
2024 · Original Music Composer
Nicky Larson
2024 · Original Music Composer
Goodbye Hoyaman
2023 · Music
We're Broke, My Lord!
2023 · Original Music Composer
REVOLUTION+1
2023 · Original Music Composer
The Zen Diary
2022 · Original Music Composer
Whereabouts of Sound
2022 · Self
Inu-Oh
2022 · Heike Spirit (voice), Original Music Composer
You've Got A Friend
2022 · Original Music Composer
The Unnameable Dance
2022 · Self
Noise
2022 · Original Music Composer
Olympiad Tokyo Kasumigaoka Public Apartments
2021 · Original Music Composer
Backlight
2021 · Original Music Composer
Whiplash of the Dead
2021 · Original Music Composer
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
2021 · Original Music Composer
Keep Rolling
2020 · Original Music Composer
Beneath the Shadow
2019 · Original Music Composer
Taro the Fool
2019 · Original Music Composer
When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes
2019 · Original Music Composer
Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
2018 · Original Music Composer
The Fall of Icarus: Narita Stories
2017 · Original Music Composer
Moon and Thunder
2017 · Original Music Composer
Time to Dance
2016 · Music
Artist of Fasting
2016 · Original Music Composer
Hana-Dama: Phantom
2016 · Original Music Composer
The Actor
2016 · Original Music Composer
Mother, I've Pretty Much Forgotten Your Face
2016 · Self
Orange
2015 · Original Music Composer
Vers l'autre rive
2015 · Original Music Composer
Piece of Cake
2015 · Original Music Composer
Hokusotan 2015 (Action Direct)
2015 · Original Music Composer
The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories
2014 · Original Music Composer
One for All, All for One
2014 · Original Music Composer
Hana-Dama: The Origins
2014 · Original Music Composer
Passion
2013 · Original Music Composer
Bozo
2013 · Music
Yellow Elephant
2013 · Original Music Composer
Suzuki Sensei
2013 · Original Music Composer
Amplified Gesture
2012 · Self
OLO, the Boy from Tibet
2012 · Music
We Don't Care About Music Anyway
2011 · Self
The Town's Children
2011 · Music
Abraxas
2010 · Music
Tokyo Island
2010 · Original Music Composer
A Crowd of Three
2010 · Music
Le revenant
2010 · Music
Oh, My Buddha!
2009 · Music
Bare Essence of Life
2009 · Music
Kikoe
2009 · Self
Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War
2008 · Music
Muhlifein
2007 · Himself
Boku wa imouto ni koi wo suru
2007 · Original Music Composer
Prisoner/Terrorist
2007 · Original Music Composer
AA
2006 · Self
Angel's Egg
2006 · Music
KOCHAB
2006 · Music
Dark Room Filled with Light
2006 · Sound
Heart, Beating in the Dark
2005 · Music
Rampo Noir
2005 · Original Music Composer
Canary
2005 · Music
Mind and Body
2004 · Original Music Composer
Déracine
2004 · Original Music Composer
Nor Noise
2004 · Self
Jump
2003 · Music
Blue
2003 · Music
Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp
2003 · Music
Iden & Tity
2003 · Original Music Composer
Sorry
2002 · Original Music Composer
Kai-On
2002 · Music
Concent
2002 · Original Music Composer
Scanning of Modulations
2001 · Music
To the Backstreet: The Films Kenji Nakagami Left Out
2001 · Music
Kazahana
2001 · Original Music Composer
Tokyo Elegy
1999 · Music
Dead Beat
1999 · Original Music Composer
Wait and See
1998 · Music
Soft Skin
1998 · Original Music Composer
Kitchen
1997 · Original Music Composer
pierce LOVE&HATE
1997 · Original Music Composer
TRANSIT ANARCHY
1997 · Music
Stunt woman
1996 · Original Music Composer
Hu-Du-Men
1996 · Original Music Composer
The Sun Has Ears
1996 · Music
Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Tokyo 1995: Unofficial Live Video
1995
Neige d'été
1995 · Original Music Composer
Postman
1995 · Original Music Composer
The Day the Sun Turned Cold
1994 · Original Music Composer
Evil Dream
1994 · Original Music Composer
Le Cerf-volant bleu
1994 · Music
KICKS
1991 · Music
ZERO HOUR
1991 · Music
EXIT-B9
1990 · Music
Séries (16)
Rosanjin's Stove
2026 · Original Music Composer
After the Quake
2025 · Original Music Composer
Tokumei!
2023 · Original Music Composer
A Town Without Seasons
2023 · Original Music Composer
Lupin Zero
2022 · Original Music Composer
Elpis
2022 · Original Music Composer
Shimobee
2022 · Original Music Composer
Magi: The Tensho Boys' Embassy
2019 · Original Music Composer
Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story
2019 · Original Music Composer
Izakaya Fuji
2017 · Original Music Composer
Utenai Keikan
2016 · Music
Asunaro Sanzan Nana Byoushi
2014 · Original Music Composer
The Long Goodbye
2014 · Original Music Composer
Amachan
2013 · Original Music Composer
Suzuki Sensei
2011 · Original Music Composer
Kaidan Horror Classics
2010 · Music