---
name: "Takahito Sakurai"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/takahito-sakurai"
fi1m_id: "takahito-sakurai"
imdb_id: "nm9152741"
tmdb_id: 2160649
wikidata_id: "Q11544809"
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:12:58.125929+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."
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# Takahito Sakurai

## Identity

Takahito Sakurai

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/takahito-sakurai
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** takahito-sakurai
- **IMDb ID:** nm9152741
- **TMDB ID:** 2160649
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11544809
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11544809, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9152741/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2160649

Composer. Born in Okinawa, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Also known as:** 櫻井 隆仁
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11544809, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9152741/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2160649

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Your Name.*](https://film.one/film/your-name.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Takahito Sakurai (櫻井 隆仁) is a Japanese composer and sanshin player from Okinawa Prefecture. He founded the music production company Sakurai Music Workshop in 1999 after working as a director at Teichiku Entertainment.

Sakurai specialises in composing departure melodies for railway stations and has created over fifty such pieces, primarily for JR East and Kyoto Municipal Subway. He has also released albums featuring arrangements of anime songs as station melodies.

In film, he contributed theme music and tracks including 'Furui Orgel' and 'In A Little While' to the 2016 animated feature *Your Name.*.

*Sources: imdb.com, ja.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Your Name.* (2016), Fi1m 84, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/your-name.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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

- *Your Name.* (2016), Music — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/your-name.md)

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