---
name: "Tsutomu Ōhashi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/shoji-yamashiro"
fi1m_id: "shoji-yamashiro"
imdb_id: "nm0945602"
tmdb_id: 1695
wikidata_id: "Q332929"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "14 March 1933"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:46:02.382321+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."
---

# Tsutomu Ōhashi

## Identity

Tsutomu Ōhashi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/shoji-yamashiro
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** shoji-yamashiro
- **IMDb ID:** nm0945602
- **TMDB ID:** 1695
- **Wikidata ID:** Q332929
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_%C5%8Chashi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332929, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945602/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1695

Composer. Born 14 March 1933 in Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 14 March 1933, Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
- **Also known as:** Shoji Yamashiro, 山城祥二, Shōji Yamashiro, Shouji Yamashira, Tsutomu Oohashi
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_%C5%8Chashi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332929, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945602/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1695

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- **The Roku Channel:** [*Akira*](https://film.one/film/akira.md) (83)

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## Biography

Shoji Yamashiro is the pseudonym of Tsutomu Ōhashi, a Japanese composer and agricultural scientist. Born on 14 March 1933 in Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture, he graduated from Tohoku University with a doctorate in agriculture and later held academic posts including instructor at Tsukuba University and professor at the Chiba Institute of Technology.

In 1974 he founded the experimental music collective Geinoh Yamashirogumi, whose members include professionals from non-musical fields. He composed and conducted the score for the 1988 animated film *Akira*, fusing gamelan, Noh and Buddhist chant traditions with electronic synthesis; the music was recorded before animation began and served as the film's structural framework. He is also credited on the 2017 short *I Am God*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, vgmdb.net, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Akira* (1988), Fi1m 83, Original Music Composer, Music Director, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/akira.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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

- *Akira* (1988), Original Music Composer, Music Director — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/akira.md)

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© 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/shoji-yamashiro