Kenji Kawai
Sound1957Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Known For
Acting History
Future
Patlabor EZY File 3
Original Music Composer
2026
Patlabor EZY File 2
Original Music Composer
Patlabor EZY File 1
Original Music Composer
2025
Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise
Original Music Composer
Candlestick
Original Music Composer
Umamusume: Cinderella Gray
TVOriginal Music Composer
2024
Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture - Act 1
Original Music Composer
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
Original Music Composer
Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture
TVMusic• 12 eps
2023
The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe
Original Music Composer
The Fire Hunter
TVOriginal Music Composer• 20 eps
My Home Hero
TVOriginal Music Composer
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers
TVOriginal Music Composer
2022
Toku: Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru ~Setsugetsuka~ Yuki no Maki
Original Music Composer
Blood Friends
Original Music Composer
2021
Limbo
Original Music Composer
Vlad Love
TVOriginal Music Composer• 12 eps
Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West
TVOriginal Music Composer
2020
The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity
Original Music Composer
Remotely Killed
Original Music Composer
Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW
TVOriginal Music Composer• 39 eps
2019
Ip Man 4: The Finale
Original Music Composer
Kamen Rider Build NEW WORLD: Kamen Rider Cross-Z
Original Music Composer
Kamen Rider Build NEW WORLD: Kamen Rider Grease
Original Music Composer
Shishigari
Original Music Composer
No Guns Life
TVOriginal Music Composer
2018
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Original Music Composer
Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings
Original Music Composer
Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
Original Music Composer
Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever
Original Music Composer
The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!
TVOriginal Music Composer
2017
Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield
Original Music Composer
BORDER Redemption
Original Music Composer
Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FINAL: Build & Ex-Aid with Legend Riders
Original Music Composer
Dawn of the Nazis
Original Music Composer
Resident Evil: Vendetta
Original Music Composer
Sand Whale and Me
TVMixing Engineer• 5 eps
Sand Whale and Me
TVMusic• 5 eps
BORDER The Urge Medical Examiner Mika HIGA
TVOriginal Music Composer
2016
RE:BORN
Original Music Composer
G2.5
Music
JOKER GAME
TVOriginal Music Composer
Servamp
TVOriginal Music Composer
Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru
TVOriginal Music Composer
Mob Psycho 100
TVOriginal Music Composer
2015
Ghost Theater
Original Music Composer
Gamera
Original Music Composer
Ip Man 3
Original Music Composer
Apocalypse: Stalin
TVOriginal Music Composer• 3 eps
The Perfect Insider
TVOriginal Music Composer
Ghost Theater
TVOriginal Music Composer
2014
Hakuouki: Warrior Spirit of the Blue Sky
Original Music Composer
Genome Hazard
Music
Monsterz
Original Music Composer
The Next Generation: Patlabor
TVOriginal Music Composer
World Trigger
TVMusic• 99 eps
Barakamon
TVOriginal Music Composer
Border
TVMusic
The Perfect Insider
TVMusic
Nezumi-Kozo, Running Around Edo
TVOriginal Music Composer
2013
Sadako 3D 2
Original Music Composer
Tales from the Dark 2
Original Music Composer
Hakuouki: Wild Dance of Kyoto
Original Music Composer
Tales from the Dark 1
Original Music Composer
Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon
Original Music Composer
The Complex
Original Music Composer
The Complex: Prologue
TVOriginal Music Composer• 12 eps
2012
009 Re:Cyborg
Original Music Composer
NEXT A-Class
Music
Sadako 3D
Original Music Composer
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger
TVMusic
Umechan Sensei
TVMusic
2011
Towa no Quon 2: Dancing Orchid in Chaos
Original Music Composer
Towa no Quon 3: The Complicity of Dreams
Original Music Composer
Rabbit Horror
Original Music Composer
Towa no Quon 4: The Roaring Anxiety
Original Music Composer
Towa no Quon 5: The Return of the Invincible
Original Music Composer
Towa no Quon 6: Eternal Quon
Original Music Composer
Towa no Quon 1: The Ephemeral Petals
Original Music Composer
Gantz: Perfect Answer
Original Music Composer
Wild 7
Original Music Composer
Xi AVANT
Music
Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler
TVOriginal Music Composer
Tsukahara Bokuden
TVMusic
NHK Special: Unsolved Cases
TVMusic
2010
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: -A Wakening of the Trailblazer-
Original Music Composer
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
Original Music Composer
Shoka
Original Music Composer
Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost
Original Music Composer
The Incite Mill
Original Music Composer
28½
Original Music Composer
Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial
Original Music Composer
Chatroom
Original Music Composer
Ip Man 2
Original Music Composer
Gantz
Original Music Composer
009: The Reopening
Music
Steel Frame
TVOriginal Music Composer
2009
Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden
Original Music Composer
Assault Girls
Original Music Composer
The Hovering Blade
Original Music Composer
Apocalypse: The Second World War
TVMusic• 6 eps
Eden of the East
TVOriginal Music Composer• 11 eps
2008
Kenji Kawai - Cinema Symphony
as Composer
The Sky Crawlers
Original Music Composer
Ip Man
Original Music Composer
Orochi - Blood
Music
Death Note: L Change the WorLd
Original Music Composer
The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming
Original Music Composer
Shrill Cries of Summer
Original Music Composer
Ghost in the Shell 2.0
Original Music Composer
ＮＨＫスペシャル 沸騰都市
TVMusician
Nanase Once More
TVMusic
2007
Kaidan
Original Music Composer
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
TVMusic• 26 eps
2006
Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters
as Hamburger Tetsu (voice)
Trapped Ashes
Original Music Composer
Battle of the Warriors
Original Music Composer
Dragon Tiger Gate
Original Music Composer
Death Note
Original Music Composer
Running Wild
Original Music Composer
Death Note: The Last Name
Original Music Composer
Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters
Original Music Composer
The Woman of S.R.I.
TVOriginal Music Composer• 41 eps
The Prince of Tennis: The National Tournament
TVArt Direction• 26 eps
Higurashi: When They Cry
TVOriginal Music Composer
Fate/stay night
TVOriginal Music Composer
2005
Reincarnation
Original Music Composer
Antarctic Journal
Original Music Composer
Open Your Mind
Music
Open Your Mind
Writer
Seven Swords
Original Music Composer
Inferno
Original Music Composer
Starship Operators
TVMusic
2004
Premonition
Music
Kibakichi
Original Music Composer
Kibakichi 2
Original Music Composer
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Original Music Composer
Windy Tales
TVMusic
Ultraman Nexus
TVMusic
2003
Tokyo Vein
Music
2002
Dark Water
Original Music Composer
Samouraïs
Original Music Composer
Samouraïs
Music
Bloody Mallory
Original Music Composer
MiniPato
TVMusic
2001
The Princess Blade
Original Music Composer
Unloved
Original Music Composer
Avalon
Original Music Composer
2000
1999
Ring 2
Original Music Composer
1998
Ring
Original Music Composer
1997
Hyper Police
TVMusic
Vampire Princess Miyu
TVOriginal Music Composer
1996
Hime-chan's Ribbon
TVOriginal Music Composer
Yat, The Space Patrol
TVOriginal Music Composer
Blue Seed Beyond
TVMusic
1995
Ghost in the Shell
Original Music Composer
Wild Knights Gulkeeva
TVOriginal Music Composer• 26 eps
Sorcerer Hunters
TVOriginal Music Composer• 26 eps
1994
The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA
TVMusic• 10 eps
The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA
TVSongs• 10 eps
Mighty Space Miners
TVOriginal Music Composer
1993
Patlabor 2: The Movie
Original Music Composer
1992
1991
オレは悪魔だデビルマン!
Music
Ranma 1/2 the Movie: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China
Original Music Composer
Burn Up
Music
Mermaid Forest
Music
Kekko Kamen
Original Music Composer
DRAGON FIST
Music
Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla
Original Music Composer
Luna Varga
TVMusic
Go Nagai World
TVMusic
1990
MAROKO
Original Music Composer
Hana no Asuka-gumi! 2: Lonely Cats Battle Royale
Original Music Composer
Patlabor: The New Files
TVMusic
Samurai Pizza Cats
TVMusic
1989
1988
Vampire Princess Miyu
Music Editor
One Pound Gospel
Music
Star Virgin
Original Music Composer
Vampire Princess Miyu
TVMusic
Patlabor: The Mobile Police
TVOriginal Music Composer
1971
Kamen Rider
TVMusic