--- name: "Kōji Endō" canonical: "https://film.one/person/koji-endo" fi1m_id: "koji-endo" imdb_id: "nm0256862" tmdb_id: 35633 wikidata_id: "Q2947344" roles: ["Composer"] born: "1 January 1964" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-26T03:00:05.285216+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." --- # Kōji Endō ## Identity Kōji Endō - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/koji-endo - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** koji-endo - **IMDb ID:** nm0256862 - **TMDB ID:** 35633 - **Wikidata ID:** Q2947344 - **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2947344, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0256862/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35633 Composer. Born 1 January 1964 in Japan. ## Details - **Work:** Composer - **Born:** 1 January 1964, Japan - **Also known as:** Koji Endo, Endo Koji, 遠藤 浩二, Endō Kōji, Kôji Endô, Endô Kôji - **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2947344, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0256862/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35633 ## Coming up - *Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo* (2026-10-23), Original Music Composer ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Audition*](https://film.one/film/audition.md) (84) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Kōji Endō is a Japanese composer. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with director Takashi Miike, beginning with the 1997 film *Rainy Dog* and including *Audition* (1999), *Visitor Q* (2001), *13 Assassins* (2010), *As the Gods Will* (2014), *Blade of the Immortal* (2017) and *First Love* (2019). Endō has composed scores for more than eighty films. In 2011 he received a nomination for Best Original Score at the Japanese Academy Awards for his work on *13 Assassins*. He operates from his own studio, SoundKids, in Tokyo. *Sources: it.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Audition* (2000), Fi1m 84, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/audition.md) ## Complete filmography (285) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo* (2026), Original Music Composer - *Match Monde* (2026), Music - *Yamaguchi-kun Isn't So Bad* (2026), Original Music Composer - *Angel Flight THE MOVIE* (2026), Music, Original Music Composer - *Haguregumo* (2026), series, Original Music Composer - *Therapy Game* (2025), series, Original Music Composer - *Masked NINJA Akakage* (2025), series, Original Music Composer - *PUNKS△TRIANGLE* (2025), series, Original Music Composer - *The Yakuza Boss’s Beloved* (2025), series, Original Music Composer - *Nyaight of the Living Cat* (2025), series, Original Music Composer - *Cinderella Closet* (2025), series, Music - *Sham* (2025), Original Music Composer - *My Special One* (2025), Original Music Composer - *A Bad Summer* (2025), Original Music Composer - *It Takes More Than a Pretty Face to Fall in Love* (2025), Original Music Composer - *Salaryman Kintarō* (2025), series, Original Music Composer - *Blazing Fists* (2025), Original Music Composer - *Atashino!* (2024), Original Music Composer - *Our Youth* (2024), series, Original Music Composer - *The Diamond Sleeping in the Sea* (2024), series, Music Editor - *Qros's Woman: Madness Called Scoop* (2024), series, Original Music Composer - *Happy of the End* (2024), series, Original Music Composer - *Oichi Fushigi Gatari* (2024), series, Original Music Composer - *Last Mile* (2024), Music Editor - *Cosmetic Playlover* (2024), series, Sound - *Hiroshige Blue* (2024), series, Original Music Composer - *広重ぶるう* (2024), Original Music Composer - *PLAY!* (2024), Original Music Composer - *Shady Job Family* (2024), series, Original Music Composer - *Lumberjack the Monster* (2023), Original Music Composer - *Ozu* (2023), series, Original Music Composer - *Silence of Smoke* (2023), Original Music Composer - *Onimusha* (2023), series, Original Music Composer - *Nichijo no Zekkei* (2023), series, Original Music Composer - *Marriage with Me? Seriously?* (2023), series, Original Music Composer - *Kamaishi Ramen Story* (2023), Original Music Composer - *Our Secret Diary* (2023), Original Music Composer - *Inspector Daimajin* (2023), series, Original Music Composer - *Touken Ranbu: The Movie -Dawn-* (2023), Original Music Composer - *My Happy Marriage* (2023), Music Supervisor - *Angel Flight* (2023), series, Original Music Composer - *ホリデイ～江戸の休日～* (2023), Original Music Composer - *Ichigeki* (2023), Original Music Composer - *Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure* (2022), series, Original Music Composer - *Sadako DX* (2022), Original Music Composer - *The Samurai and His Wife* (2022), Music - *Tabiya Okaeri* (2022), series, Original Music Composer - *Bakumatsu Aibou-den* (2022), Original Music Composer - *The Mole Song: Final* (2021), Original Music Composer - *Yellow Dragon's Village* (2021), Original Music Composer - *Tokyo Noodle Factory* (2021), series, Original Music Composer - *Kaguya-sama Final: Love Is War* (2021), Original Music Composer - *The Great Yokai War: Guardians* (2021), Original Music Composer - *Lion Snack* (2021), series, Original Music Composer - *Police × Heroine Lovepatrina! Movie Version ~Challenge from a Phantom Thief! Let's Arrest with Love and a Pat!~* (2021), Original Music Composer - *The Grapes of Joy* (2021), Original Music Composer - *Noukagaku Bengoshi Kaidou Azusa Doubt* (2021), Original Music Composer - *Honeys* (2021), series, Music - *Love Stories from Fukuoka 16* (2021), Original Music Composer - *Liar x Liar* (2021), Original Music Composer - *Go! Go! Stupid Woman!* (2021), Original Music Composer - *Captivated, by You* (2021), series, Music - *May December Couple* (2020), series, Original Music Composer - *Jōiuchi* (2020), Original Music Composer - *‎Lesson of the Evil: Prologue* (2020), series, Original Music Composer - *Japan Gangster War Chapter 7* (2020), Original Music Composer - *Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! ~We've Become a Movie~* (2020), Original Music Composer - *Oshako, Sommelier of Fancy Homes* (2020), series, Original Music Composer - *Stop the Bitch Campaign Reboot* (2020), Original Music Composer - *MIU404* (2020), series, Sound Designer - *Care Nin 2: The Flower in Your Heart* (2020), Original Music Composer - *Shonan Junai Gumi!* (2020), series, Original Music Composer - *On Nights When I Want to End It All...* (2020), series, Original Music Composer - *First Love* (2020), Original Music Composer - *Family Bond* (2020), Original Music Composer - *Brothers in Brothel* (2019), Original Music Composer - *最上の命医 2019* (2019), Original Music Composer - *Kaguya-sama: Love Is War* (2019), Original Music Composer - *Black Maiden: Chapter A* (2019), Original Music Composer - *First Love* (2019), Original Music Composer - *Black Maiden: Chapter Q* (2019), Original Music Composer - *Spiral* (2019), series, Original Music Composer - *Secret × Warrior Phantomirage!* (2019), series, Original Music Composer - *JK☆ROCK* (2019), Original Music Composer - *The Peers* (2019), Original Music Composer - *The Fox Dancing in the Dusk* (2019), Original Music Composer - *Touken Ranbu: The Movie -Inheritance-* (2019), Original Music Composer - *Bridge over Troubled Water* (2018), Original Music Composer - *Laplace's Witch* (2018), Original Music Composer - *The Many Faces of Ito* (2018), Original Music Composer - *Hashi Monogatari: Konuka Ame* (2017), Music - *The Stand-In Thief* (2017), Original Music Composer - *Silent Court* (2017), series, Original Music Composer - *The Best Skilled Surgeon 2017* (2017), Original Music Composer - *The Many Faces of Ito* (2017), series, Original Music Composer - *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable – Chapter 1* (2017), Original Music Composer - *Care Nin* (2017), Original Music Composer - *Neko Ninja* (2017), Music Director - *Blade of the Immortal* (2017), Original Music Composer - *The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio* (2016), Original Music Composer - *Intern* (2016), Original Music Composer - *Onihei side story: The Final Chapter - The Fourth Wife* (2016), Original Music Composer - *The Crawler In The Attic* (2016), Music Director - *Sadako vs. Kayako* (2016), Original Music Composer - *Ame Onna* (2016), Original Music Composer - *Faces* (2016), Original Music Composer - *Terra Formars* (2016), Original Music Composer - *テラフォーマーズ／新たなる希望* (2016), series, Original Music Composer - *The Best Skilled Surgeon 2016* (2016), Original Music Composer - *ローカル路線バス乗り継ぎの旅 THE MOVIE* (2016), Music Director - *Mojin: The Lost Legend* (2015), Original Music Composer - *Fuyu no Hi* (2015), Original Music Composer - *Osoi Shiawase* (2015), Original Music Composer - *The Driver* (2015), Original Music Composer - *Girls Step* (2015), Original Music Composer - *Sunflower on the Hill* (2015), Original Music Composer - *Wait for Me at Udagawachou* (2015), Original Music Composer - *Tokyo PR Woman* (2015), Original Music Composer - *Samurai Cat 2: A Tropical Adventure* (2015), Sound Director - *Seven Days: Friday - Sunday* (2015), Original Music Composer - *Seven Days: Monday - Thursday* (2015), Original Music Composer - *Yagyu Jubei: The Fate of the World* (2015), Original Music Composer - *Yakuza Apocalypse* (2015), Original Music Composer - *Mother Game* (2015), series, Original Music Composer - *The Day Kouhaku Was Born* (2015), Original Music Composer - *The Lion Standing in the Wind* (2015), Original Music Composer - *Her Granddaughter* (2015), Original Music Composer - *As the Gods Will* (2014), Original Music Composer - *Women Does Not Allow That* (2014), series, Original Music Composer - *Cardfight!! Vanguard Movie: The Three Games* (2014), Original Music Composer - *Over Your Dead Body* (2014), Original Music Composer - *Zetsuosore Taikan Kimodameshi* (2014), Original Music Composer - *L♡DK* (2014), Original Music Composer - *The Woman Without a Shadow* (2014), Music - *Tokyo Refugees* (2014), Original Music Composer - *Shadow Warrior Tokugawa Ieyasu* (2014), Original Music Composer - *The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji* (2013), Original Music Composer - *Tiger Mask* (2013), Original Music Composer - *Blue Planet Brothers* (2013), Original Music Composer - *Higanjima* (2013), series, Original Music Composer - *Samurai Cat* (2013), series, Music Director - *Our Highland Hotel* (2013), Original Music Composer - *The Road Less Travelled* (2013), Original Music Composer - *The House of Rising Sun* (2013), Original Music Composer - *Demon Ward* (2013), series, Original Music Composer - *Shield of Straw* (2013), Original Music Composer - *Kumokiri Nizaemon* (2013), series, Original Music Composer - *Onihei Gaiden - Promise in the Shadows* (2013), Music - *One Day in January* (2012), Music - *Lesson of the Evil* (2012), Original Music Composer - *Akko's Secret* (2012), Original Music Composer - *New Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: Ghost Story* (2012), Original Music Composer - *Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo and the Kyoto Shinsengumi Murder Case* (2012), Original Music Composer - *Atsuhime No.1* (2012), Original Music Composer - *Ace Attorney* (2012), Original Music Composer - *Kalina's Apple: Forest of Chernobyl* (2011), Original Music Composer - *Vanished: Age 7* (2011), Original Music Composer - *Takumi-kun Series: That, Sunny Blue Sky* (2011), Original Music Composer - *Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo's Written Challenge* (2011), series, Original Music Composer - *Shodo Girls: Blue Blue Sky* (2011), Original Music Composer - *Phone Call From Mary* (2011), Original Music Composer - *Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3* (2011), Original Music Composer - *The Best Skilled Surgeon* (2011), series, Original Music Composer - *Onihei Gaiden: The Night Rabbit* (2011), Original Music Composer - *Takumi-kun Series: Pure* (2010), Original Music Composer - *13 Assassins* (2010), Original Music Composer - *Kai-Ki: Tales of Terror from Tokyo* (2010), Original Music Composer - *Takumi-kun Series: The Beauty of Detail* (2010), Original Music Composer - *Dear Heart* (2009), Original Music Composer - *Kyo Kara Hitman* (2009), Original Music Composer - *Takumi-kun Series: Rainbow Colored Glass* (2009), Original Music Composer - *Hancho* (2009), series, Original Music Composer - *Stop the Bitch Campaign Version 2.0* (2009), Original Music Composer, Sound Effects - *New Type: Just For Your Love* (2008), Original Music Composer - *Osaka Hamlet* (2008), Original Music Composer - *You'll Die Six Hours Later* (2008), Original Music Composer - *Shunkinshō* (2008), Original Music Composer - *Rakugo musume* (2008), Original Music Composer - *Ando Natsu* (2008), series, Original Music Composer - *Nagai Nagai Satsujin* (2008), Original Music Composer - *ナツコイ* (2008), series, Music - *Twin Blades of the Ninja* (2007), Original Music Composer - *0093: Masao Kusakari On Her Majesty's Secret Service* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Detective Story* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Sukiyaki Western Django* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Love on Sunday: Last Words* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Eko Eko Azarak* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Dream Cruise* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Public Security Police Investigator* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Dan Oniroku's: Training a Married Woman - A Feast of Darkness* (2007), Music - *Mobile Detectives: The Movie 2* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Yakuza: Like a Dragon* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Bakushi* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Piledriver* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Gakkou no Kaidan* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Aogura* (2006), Original Music Composer - *Diary of Beloved Wife: Saucepot* (2006), Original Music Composer - *Diary of Beloved Wife: Naive* (2006), Original Music Composer - *Diary of Beloved Wife: Devoted Wife* (2006), Original Music Composer - *Diary of Beloved Wife: Feast* (2006), Original Music Composer - *Strawberry Fields* (2006), Original Music Composer - *Nightingalo* (2006), Original Music Composer - *Love on Sunday* (2006), Music Director, Original Music Composer - *MURAMASA Chapter 8: Tsukiyomi* (2006), Music - *Sun Scarred* (2006), Original Music Composer - *Mobile Detectives: The Movie* (2006), Original Music Composer - *The Vanished* (2006), Original Music Composer - *Imprint* (2006), Original Music Composer - *Big Bang Love, Juvenile A* (2006), Original Music Composer - *MURAMASA Chapter 6: Golden Dragon* (2006), Music - *Leviathan* (2005), Original Music Composer - *Tobi ga kururi to* (2005), Original Music Composer - *Sayonara Midori-chan* (2005), Original Music Composer - *The Great Yokai War* (2005), Original Music Composer - *Demon Pond* (2005), Original Music Composer - *Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke* (2005), Music - *DEATH: Bleeding Hell* (2004), Original Music Composer - *The Great Horror Family* (2004), series, Original Music Composer - *Izo* (2004), Original Music Composer - *Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie* (2004), Original Music Composer - *Three... Extremes* (2004), Original Music Composer - *Believer* (2004), Original Music Composer - *Wild Flowers* (2004), Original Music Composer - *Kamachi* (2004), Original Music Composer - *Shura's Blood* (2004), Original Music Composer - *Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 2* (2004), Original Music Composer - *Zebraman* (2004), Original Music Composer - *One Missed Call* (2003), Original Music Composer - *Keitai Deka Zenigata Mai* (2003), series, Original Music Composer - *Captive Files II* (2003), Original Music Composer - *The Negotiator* (2003), Original Music Composer - *Gozu* (2003), Original Music Composer - *Sutegoro: The Three Kajiwara Brothers' Turbulent Showa History* (2003), Original Music Composer - *The Man in White* (2003), Original Music Composer - *Semi: Nakanai Semi* (2003), Music - *Lady Drop* (2003), Original Music Composer - *The Phantom of August* (2002), Original Music Composer - *Shangri-La* (2002), Original Music Composer - *Graveyard of Honor* (2002), Original Music Composer - *Sabu* (2002), Original Music Composer - *The Happiness of the Katakuris* (2002), Original Music Composer - *0 & 1* (2002), Original Music Composer - *Tokyo Nukemichi Girl* (2002), series, Original Music Composer - *Dead or Alive: Final* (2002), Original Music Composer - *Agitator* (2001), Original Music Composer - *Perfect Education: 40 Days of Love* (2001), Original Music Composer - *Strain 2* (2001), Original Music Composer - *Love Ghost* (2001), Original Music Composer - *Lonely Hitman: The Blue Wolf* (2001), Original Music Composer - *Visitor Q* (2001), Original Music Composer - *Strain* (2001), Original Music Composer - *House of the Ghosts ~Kanako Inuki's World of Fear~* (2000), Original Music Composer - *The City of Lost Souls* (2000), Original Music Composer - *I Am an S+M Writer* (2000), Original Music Composer - *B-Grade Video Report: Ken-chan the AV Pro* (2000), Original Music Composer - *Nagisa* (2000), Original Music Composer - *Kamome* (2000), Original Music Composer - *Audition* (2000), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/audition.md) - *Tomie: Replay* (2000), Original Music Composer - *Currency and Blonde* (2000), Original Music Composer - *Dead or Alive* (1999), Original Music Composer - *N-Girls Vs Vampire* (1999), Original Music Composer - *Minazuki* (1999), Original Music Composer - *New Molester Diary 2* (1999), Original Music Composer - *Nostradamus Metsuboroku: Idenshi no Shinseiki* (1999), Original Music Composer - *Heisei Gokudoden Yasha Tears!* (1999), Original Music Composer - *Ley Lines* (1999), Original Music Composer - *Young Thugs: Nostalgia* (1998), Original Music Composer - *June Bride* (1998), Music - *The Bird People in China* (1998), Original Music Composer - *The Outer Way* (1998), Original Music Composer - *Another XX: Fanatic Love* (1998), Original Music Composer - *Full Metal Yakuza* (1997), Original Music Composer - *Rainy Dog* (1997), Original Music Composer - *Kunoichi: Deadly Mirage* (1997), Original Music Composer - *Suspicious Married Woman Telekura Report* (1996), Original Music Composer - *Jokyoshi Nikki 2 Abakareta Sei* (1996), Original Music Composer - *In a Thicket* (1996), Original Music Composer - *F. Health Girl's Diary* (1996), Original Music Composer - *Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland* (1996), Original Music Composer - *Molester Diary: A Man Who Kept Stroking Ass 3* (1996), Original Music Composer - *Molester Diary: A Man Who Kept Stroking Ass 4* (1996), Original Music Composer - *Female Teacher Diary: Forbidden Sex* (1995), Original Music Composer - *Maruin: Shijû hatte: Kyonyû zeme* (1994), Original Music Composer - *The Pregnant Woman* (1992), Original Music Composer --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/koji-endo