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Kenji Kawai

Name in Native Language: "川井 憲次" (Japanese/JA)
Composer / Guitarist | * 04/23/1957 (66) | Shinagawa, Tokyo Prefecture (Japan)
Kenji Kawai (川井 憲次, Kawai Kenji, born April 23, 1957) is a Japanese music composer and arranger. Known as one of the biggest names in the soundtrack world, he has worked on a wide range of mixed media productions, including anime, TV shows, films and video games. Among his credits are Toei's Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever, Tsui Hark's Seven Swords and Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon; Wilson Yip's Ip Man; Mamoru Oshii's films The Red Spectacles, StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops, Ghost in the Shell, Mobile Police Patlabor, The Sky Crawlers and Avalon; the anime adaptations of Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma ½ and Maison Ikkoku; the live-action adaptation of ()
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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.

Most frequent genres for this person: Animation | Action | Drama

Known for these Movies & Shows

In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals. ...

Ghost in the Shell

FSK: 16+ years

2017 | 3.0/5 | 1h 47min
Science Fiction, Drama, Action
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Following the death of his wife, Ip Man travels to San Francisco to ease tensions between the local kung fu masters and his star student, Bruce Lee, while searching for a better future for his son. ...

Ip Man 4: The Finale

FSK: 16+ years

2019 | 3.6/5 | 1h 47min
Action, Drama, History
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A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip that took place in the city of Foshan bet ...

Ip Man

FSK: 18+ years

2008 | 3.9/5 | 1h 46min
Drama, Action, History
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Cyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like cyborgs, which all malfunctioned, killed, then self-destructed afterwards. The brains of the gyno ...

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

FSK: 16+ years

2004 | 3.7/5 | 1h 40min
Animation, Drama, Science Fiction
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Movies with Kenji Kawai as Actor(2)

as Hamburger Tetsu (voice)2006 Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters
as himself1995 Ghost in the Shell: Production Report

Movies with Kenji Kawai as Crew(111)

Sound/Original Music Composer2023 The Birth of Kitarou: Mystery of GeGeGe
Sound/Music2023 Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part1
Sound/Original Music Composer2022 I Can't Stop Biting You
Sound/Original Music Composer2021 Limbo
Sound/Original Music Composer2020 The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity
Sound/Original Music Composer2019 Ip Man 4: The Finale
Sound/Music2018 Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
Sound/Music2018 Kamen Rider: Heisei Generations Forever
Sound/Music2018 Servamp Movie: Alice in the Garden
Sound/Music2018 Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings
Sound/Original Music Composer2018 Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Sound/Music2018 Kamen Rider Build The Movie: Be The One
Sound/Music2017 Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield
Sound/Music2017 Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FINAL: Build & Ex-Aid with Legend Riders
Sound/Music2017 Resident Evil: Vendetta
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 RE:BORN
Sound/Original Music Composer2015 Gamera
Sound/Music2015 The Next Generation -Patlabor- Tokyo War Director's Cut
Sound/Music2015 The Next Generation Patlabor: Tokyo War
Sound/Music2015 Ip Man 3
Sound/Music2014 Tomcat's Big Adventure
Sound/Music2014 Genome Hazard
Sound/Music2014 Garm Wars: The Last Druid
Sound/Original Music Composer2014 Hakuouki: Warrior Spirit of the Blue Sky
Sound/Music2013 Sadako 3D 2
Sound/Music2013 Hakuouki: Wild Dance of Kyoto
Sound/Original Music Composer2013 Tales From The Dark 1
Sound/Music2013 Higurashi: When They Cry - Kaku: Outbreak
Sound/Music2013 Tales From The Dark 2
Sound/Music2012 NEXT A-Class
Sound/Original Music Composer2012 009 Re:Cyborg
Sound/Music2011 Xi AVANT
Sound/Music2011 Towa no Quon 6: Eternal Quon
Sound/Music2011 Tormented
Sound/Music2011 Towa no Quon 4: The Roaring Anxiety
Sound/Original Music Composer2011 Towa no Quon 2: Dancing Orchid in Chaos
Sound/Music2011 Towa no Quon 5: The Return of the Invincible
Sound/Original Music Composer2011 Towa no Quon 1: The Ephemeral Petals
Sound/Music2011 Towa no Quon 3: The Complicity of Dreams
Sound/Original Music Composer2011 Wild 7
Sound/Original Music Composer2011 Gantz: Perfect Answer
Sound/Original Music Composer2010 Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
Sound/Original Music Composer2010 Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial
Sound/Original Music Composer2010 Ip Man 2
Sound/Original Music Composer2010 Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost
Sound/Original Music Composer2010 Gantz
Sound/Original Music Composer2010 Mobile Suit Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer
Sound/Music2010 28½
Sound/Original Music Composer2010 Chatroom
Sound/Music2010 009: The Reopening
Sound/Original Music Composer2009 Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden
Sound/Music2009 Shrill Cries: Reshuffle
Sound/Music2009 Assault Girls
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 L: change the WorLd
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 Ghost in the Shell 2.0
Sound/Music2008 Orochi - Blood
Sound/Music2008 Shrill Cries of Summer
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 The Sky Crawlers
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 Ip Man
Sound/Original Music Composer2007 Kaidan
Sound/Music2007 The Women of Fast Food
Sound/Music2006 Trapped Ashes
Sound/Original Music Composer2006 Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters
Sound/Music2006 Death Note: The Last Name
Sound/Music2006 Death Note
Sound/Music2006 Battle of the Warriors
Sound/Original Music Composer2006 Running Wild
Sound/Original Music Composer2005 Inferno
Sound/Music2005 Open Your Mind
Writing/Writer2005 Open Your Mind
Sound/Original Music Composer2005 Seven Swords
Sound/Music2005 Reincarnation
Sound/Music2005 Antarctic Journal
Sound/Original Music Composer2004 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Sound/Music2004 Premonition
Sound/Original Music Composer2002 Dark Water
Sound/Music2002 WXIII: Patlabor The Movie 3
Sound/Music2002 Samouraïs
Sound/Original Music Composer2001 Unloved
Sound/Original Music Composer2001 The Princess Blade
Sound/Original Music Composer2001 Avalon
Sound/Music2001 Sadistic and Masochistic
Sound/Original Music Composer2000 Chaos
Sound/Music2000 Ghiblies
Sound/Original Music Composer2000 Sleeping Bride
Sound/Original Music Composer1999 Ring 2
Sound/Music1999 You're Under Arrest: The Movie
Sound/Music1998 Ring
Sound/Original Music Composer1995 Ghost in the Shell
Sound/Music1995 Iczer Girl: Iczelion
Sound/Music1994 Mighty Space Miners
Sound/Original Music Composer1993 Patlabor 2: The Movie
Sound/Music1992 Talking Head
Sound/Music1991 Burn Up
Sound/Music1991 I am Devilman, the Devil!
Sound/Music1991 Licca: Mysterious Magical Ring
Sound/Original Music Composer1991 Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla
Sound/Original Music Composer1991 Kekko Kamen
Sound/Original Music Composer1991 Ranma ½: The Movie — The Battle of Nekonron: The Fight to Break the Rules!
Sound/Music1991 Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops
Sound/Music1991 Mermaid Forest
Sound/Music1990 Project A-Ko Versus Battle 1: Grey Side
Sound/Original Music Composer1990 MAROKO
Sound/Music1989 All That Gundam
Sound/Music1989 Patlabor: The Movie
Sound/Original Music Composer1988 Star Virgin
Sound/Music1988 One Pound Gospel
Sound/Music Editor1988 Vampire Princess Miyu
Sound/Music1987 Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth
Sound/Music1987 The Red Spectacles
Sound/Music1987 Twilight Q

TV Shows/Series with Kenji Kawai as Crew(46)

Sound/Original Music Composer2023 The Fire Hunter
Sound/Original Music Composer2023 My Home Hero
Sound/Original Music Composer2023 Ōoku: The Inner Chambers
Sound/Original Music Composer2021 Vlad Love
Sound/Original Music Composer2021 Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on The West
Sound/Original Music Composer2020 Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW
Sound/Original Music Composer2019 No Guns Life
Sound/Original Music Composer2018 The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!
Sound/Music2017 Sand Whale and Me
Crew/Mixing Engineer2017 Sand Whale and Me
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 Mob Psycho 100
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 Servamp
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 Joker Game
Sound/Original Music Composer2015 Ghost Theater
Sound/Original Music Composer2015 The Perfect Insider
Sound/Music2014 The Perfect Insider
Sound/Music2014 World Trigger
Sound/Original Music Composer2014 Barakamon
Sound/Sound2014 Japan Animator Expo
Sound/Music2014 Border
Sound/Original Music Composer2014 Nezumi-Kozo, Running Around Edo
Sound/Music2012 Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger
Sound/Music2012 Umechan Sensei
Sound/Original Music Composer2011 Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler
Sound/Music2011 Tsukahara Bokuden
Sound/Original Music Composer2010 Steel Frame
Sound/Original Music Composer2009 Eden of the East
Sound/Music2009 Apocalypse: The Second World War
Sound/Musician2008 ＮＨＫスペシャル 沸騰都市
Sound/Music2008 Nanase Once More
Sound/Music2007 Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Sound/Original Music Composer2006 Fate/stay night
Sound/Music2005 Starship Operators
Sound/Music2004 Ultraman Nexus
Sound/Music2004 Windy Tales
Sound/Music2004 Otogi Zoshi: The Legend of Magatama
Sound/Music1999 Dai-Guard
Sound/Music1997 Hyper Police
Sound/Original Music Composer1995 Wild Knights Gulkeeva
Sound/Original Music Composer1995 Sorcerer Hunters
Sound/Music1990 Samurai Pizza Cats
Sound/Music1989 Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai!
Sound/Music1989 Patlabor: The TV Series
Sound/Music1988 Patlabor: The Mobile Police
Sound/Music1971 Kamen Rider

Additional Information

Official websites:
www.kenjikawai.com
Full Name: Kenji Kawai
Citizenship: Japan
Born: Tuesday, 04/23 1957 (April) in Shinagawa, Tokyo Prefecture (Japan) (current age: 66 years + 361 days)
Zodiac sign: Taurus (Chinese zodiac sign: Rooster)
Languages: Japanese (JA)
Other names for Kenji Kawai (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"川井 憲次"
"かわい けんじ" (Kana/Japanese)
"かーい"
"かーいさん" (Nickname)
"Kawai Kenji"
Kenji Kawai frequently works together with these people:
Mamoru Oshii (60x, Crew)
Kazuchika Kise (23x, Crew)
Kazuhiro Wakabayashi (14x, Crew)
Tomokazu Seki (13x, Actor)
Kenji Kamiyama (13x, Crew)
Atsushi Takeuchi (12x, Crew)
Hideo Nakata (11x, Crew)
Shigeru Chiba (11x, Actor)
Hiroshi Kamiya (10x, Actor)
Umanosuke Iida (10x, Crew)
Ryunosuke Watanuki (10x, Actor)
Hiroyuki Okiura (9x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:594787, Added: 10/16/2018, Last updated: 03/22/2024