---
name: "Tomoyasu Hotei"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tomoyasu-hotei"
fi1m_id: "tomoyasu-hotei"
imdb_id: "nm0396231"
tmdb_id: 66591
wikidata_id: "Q699757"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "1 February 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T19:34:08.760234+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."
---

# Tomoyasu Hotei

## Identity

Tomoyasu Hotei

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tomoyasu-hotei
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tomoyasu-hotei
- **IMDb ID:** nm0396231
- **TMDB ID:** 66591
- **Wikidata ID:** Q699757
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyasu_Hotei, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q699757, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396231/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66591

Composer. Born 1 February 1962 in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 1 February 1962, Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
- **Active:** 2003–present
- **Also known as:** Hotei Tomoyasu
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 72 (1), 2020s 70 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyasu_Hotei, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q699757, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396231/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66591

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Kill Bill: Vol. 1*](https://film.one/film/kill-bill-vol-1.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Tomoyasu Hotei is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and actor. Born on 1 February 1962 in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, he first rose to prominence in the 1980s as the guitarist for the rock band Boøwy before pursuing a solo career.

Hotei has composed music for films and series including *Samurai Fiction* (1998), *Kill Bill: Vol. 1* (2003) and *Transformers* (2007). He is also credited on *Demon City* (2025) and has performed theme songs for *Lupin the 3rd* (2014) and *Suicide Squad Isekai* (2024).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Smashing Machine* (2025), Fi1m 70, as Tomoyasu Hotei — [page](https://film.one/film/the-smashing-machine.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *Kill Bill: Vol. 1* (2003), Fi1m 72, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/kill-bill-vol-1.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

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

- *The Smashing Machine* (2025), as Tomoyasu Hotei — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-smashing-machine.md)
- *Demon City* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *COMPLEX 20240515-16 Japan Isshin* (2024), as Guitarist / Vocals · Musician
- *Suicide Squad Isekai* (2024), series, as Theme Song Performance
- *Tomoyasu Hotei 30th ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY I "Souseiki"* (2024), series, Creator
- *布袋寅泰「GUITARHYTHM VI TOUR」 特別放送* (2022), series, Creator
- *Lupin the 3rd* (2014), as Theme Song Performance
- *Complex 20110730 - Toyko Dome* (2012), as Guitarist / Vocals · Musician
- *Tomoyasu Hotei - Guitar X Symphony* (2012), as musician, guitarist · composer, singer-songwriter, producer, Musician
- *HOTEI + Todai-ji Hotei Tomoyasu SPECIAL LIVE ~FLY INTO YOUR DREAM~* (2009), Musician
- *Tomoyasu Hotei - MONSTER DRIVE PARTY!!!* (2005), as Guitar / Vocal
- *Tomoyasu Hotei - THE LIVE! DOBERMAN* (2004), Musician
- *Red Moon* (2004), as Colonel Osugi
- *Kill Bill: Vol. 1* (2003), Music — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/kill-bill-vol-1.md)
- *Boøwy - Last Gigs (Live At Tokyo Dome / 1988)* (2001), as Guitarist / Backing Vocals · Musician
- *Red Shadow* (2001), as Theme Song Performance
- *Tomoyasu Hotei - ROCK THE FUTURE TOUR 2000-2001* (2000), as Guitar / Vocal
- *Another Battle* (2000), as Tochino Masatatsu · Original Music Composer
- *Tomoyasu Hotei - TONIGHT I'M YOURS* (1999), as Guitars / Vocal
- *Samurai Fiction* (1998), as Rannosuke Kazamatsuri · Music
- *The Great Music Experience |  Nara City, Japan 1994* (1994), Musician
- *Tomoyasu Hotei - GUITARHYTHM active tour '91-'92* (1991), as Guitars / Piano / Vocal
- *Complex 19901108 - Toyko Dome* (1991), as Guitarist / Vocals · Musician
- *COMPLEX Tour 1989 - Tokyo Inkstick Shibaura* (1989), as Guitarist / Vocals · Musician

## Gallery

- ![Tomoyasu Hotei](https://film.one/media/person/9129/gallery-f99fa49ab083.jpg) Tomoyasu Hotei — Oecherbaer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Tomoyasu_Hotei_Paaspop_2017.jpg/1280px-Tomoyasu_Hotei_Paaspop_2017.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Tomoyasu Hotei (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/9129/gallery-8febae422de7.jpg) Tomoyasu Hotei (2013) — May S. Young from Metro NYC, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Tomoyasu_Hotei_-_11142013_-_001_%2810878281613%29.jpg/1280px-Tomoyasu_Hotei_-_11142013_-_001_%2810878281613%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Tomoyasu Hotei (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/9129/gallery-a3ca17c086b6.jpg) Tomoyasu Hotei (2013) — May S. Young from Metro NYC, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Tomoyasu_Hotei_-_11142013_-_002_%2810878106854%29.jpg/1280px-Tomoyasu_Hotei_-_11142013_-_002_%2810878106854%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Tomoyasu Hotei (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/9129/gallery-d95a4444f801.jpg) Tomoyasu Hotei (2013) — May S. Young from Metro NYC, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Tomoyasu_Hotei_-_11142013_-_003_%2810877967005%29.jpg/1280px-Tomoyasu_Hotei_-_11142013_-_003_%2810877967005%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Tomoyasu Hotei](https://film.one/media/person/9129/gallery-c5860118b5a5.jpg) Tomoyasu Hotei — Image via TMDB
- ![Tomoyasu Hotei](https://film.one/media/person/9129/gallery-9300d79f5df0.jpg) Tomoyasu Hotei — Image via TMDB
- ![Tomoyasu Hotei (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/9129/gallery-d68093c4b637.jpg) Tomoyasu Hotei (2013) — May S. Young from Metro NYC, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Tomoyasu_Hotei_-_11142013_-_004_%2810878107394%29.jpg/1280px-Tomoyasu_Hotei_-_11142013_-_004_%2810878107394%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Tomoyasu Hotei (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/9129/gallery-034b7372363b.jpg) Tomoyasu Hotei (2013) — May S. Young from Metro NYC, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Tomoyasu_Hotei_-_11142013_-_005_%2810878107634%29.jpg/1280px-Tomoyasu_Hotei_-_11142013_-_005_%2810878107634%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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