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name: "Haruomi Hosono"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/haruomi-hosono"
fi1m_id: "haruomi-hosono"
imdb_id: "nm0396100"
tmdb_id: 1084110
wikidata_id: "Q705221"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "9 July 1947"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T00:01:32.901050+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Haruomi Hosono

## Identity

Haruomi Hosono

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/haruomi-hosono
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** haruomi-hosono
- **IMDb ID:** nm0396100
- **TMDB ID:** 1084110
- **Wikidata ID:** Q705221
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruomi_Hosono, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q705221, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396100/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1084110

Composer. Born 9 July 1947 in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 9 July 1947, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
- **Also known as:** 細野 晴臣, Yellow Magic Orchestra, YMO
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruomi_Hosono, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q705221, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396100/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1084110

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Shoplifters*](https://film.one/film/shoplifters.md) (89)

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## Biography

Haruomi Hosono is a Japanese composer, musician and record producer. He composed the original score for Hirokazu Kore-eda’s *Shoplifters* (2018), which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.

Born in Tokyo in 1947, Hosono began his career in the late 1960s as a member of the bands Apryl Fool and Happy End. He later co-founded the influential electronic group Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) in 1978. His film work includes the scores for *Night on the Galactic Railroad* (1985) and *Appleseed: Ex Machina* (2007).

*Sources: animenewsnetwork.com, exclaim.ca, encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Shoplifters* (2018), Fi1m 89, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/shoplifters.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Spirit World* (2025), as Meiko's Neighbor 2
- *Undercurrent* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Sayonara America* (2021), Actor
- *Pension: Love Is Pink* (2020), series, as Grandpa · Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
- *They Say Nothing Stays the Same* (2019), as Nihei's Father
- *Shoplifters* (2018), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/shoplifters.md)
- *大科学実験1* (2017), as ナレーション
- *Norwegian Wood* (2010), as Record Shop Manager
- *discover science* (2010), series, as voice
- *The Short Films: We Were All Once Children* (2008), Actor
- *Gu Gu, the Cat* (2008), Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
- *Appleseed: Ex Machina* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *MOONRIDERS THE MOVIE: PASSION MANIACS* (2006), Actor
- *La Maison de Himiko* (2005), Music
- *VisualYMO:the Best* (2003), Actor
- *Technodon in Tokyo Dome* (1993), Actor
- *Hurrah: Yellow Magic Orchestra* (1992), Actor
- *Hoshi wo tsugu mono* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *Pace* (1990), Actor
- *The Tale of Genji* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Binetsu shonen* (1987), Actor
- *A Human Promise* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *On the Beach* (1985), Music, Lyricist, Music Arranger
- *Night on the Galactic Railroad* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *Paradise View* (1985), as Ito · Music
- *YMO JAPAN TOUR at Nippon Budokan* (1983), Music
- *Boys Will Be Boys* (1983), Actor
- *Choji Snack Bar* (1983), as Sano
- *YMO: Winter Live '81* (1983), Music
- *Evening Primrose* (1974), Music

## Gallery

- ![第32回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 細野晴臣 (NO SMOKING) (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/128361/gallery-94363ae0bfbe.jpg) 第32回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 細野晴臣 (NO SMOKING) (2019) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Hosono_Haruomi_from_%22No_Smoking%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2019_%2849013188768%29.jpg/1280px-Hosono_Haruomi_from_%22No_Smoking%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2019_%2849013188768%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![第32回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 細野晴臣 (NO SMOKING) (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/128361/gallery-8be87ed00053.jpg) 第32回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 細野晴臣 (NO SMOKING) (2019) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Hosono_Haruomi_from_%22No_Smoking%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2019_%2849013189233%29.jpg/1280px-Hosono_Haruomi_from_%22No_Smoking%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2019_%2849013189233%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![第32回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 細野晴臣 (NO SMOKING) (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/128361/gallery-0b9221631b1c.jpg) 第32回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 細野晴臣 (NO SMOKING) (2019) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Hosono_Haruomi_from_%22No_Smoking%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2019_%2849013189783%29.jpg/1280px-Hosono_Haruomi_from_%22No_Smoking%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2019_%2849013189783%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Haruomi Hosono](https://film.one/media/person/128361/gallery-8f399d03e4ad.jpg) Haruomi Hosono — YMOHosono2008(wide).jpg: JJ Hall from Peckham Rye, London, UK
derivative work: Solid State Survivor (talk), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/YMOHosono2008%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Bass player Haruomi Hosono playing a London concert with Yellow Magic Orchestra in 2008](https://film.one/media/person/128361/gallery-818f5c76eb37.jpg) Bass player Haruomi Hosono playing a London concert with Yellow Magic Orchestra in 2008 — JJ Hall from Peckham Rye, London, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/YMOHosono2008%28wide%29.jpg/1280px-YMOHosono2008%28wide%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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