--- name: "Yoshihide Otomo" canonical: "https://film.one/person/yoshihide-otomo" fi1m_id: "yoshihide-otomo" imdb_id: "nm0652948" tmdb_id: 1316840 wikidata_id: "Q1969558" roles: ["Composer"] born: "1 August 1959" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-26T02:17:38.767894+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." --- # Yoshihide Otomo ## Identity Yoshihide Otomo - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yoshihide-otomo - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** yoshihide-otomo - **IMDb ID:** nm0652948 - **TMDB ID:** 1316840 - **Wikidata ID:** Q1969558 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otomo_Yoshihide, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1969558, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0652948/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1316840 Composer. Born 1 August 1959 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. ## Details - **Work:** Composer - **Born:** 1 August 1959, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan - **Active:** 1994–present - **Also known as:** Yoshihide Ohtomo, Yoshihide Ôtomo, 大友 良英, 大友良英 - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otomo_Yoshihide, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1969558, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0652948/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1316840 ## Biography Yoshihide Otomo (also credited as Yoshihide Ohtomo or Ôtomo) is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist. Born in Yokohama in 1959, he moved to Fukushima as a child and later studied under improvisational guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi in Tokyo. He first gained recognition in the 1990s as leader of the experimental group Ground Zero and has composed scores for numerous films and television productions. His credits include *The Blue Kite* (1994), *Inu-Oh* (2022), *We Made a Beautiful Bouquet* (2021) and the series *After the Quake* (2025). Otomo received the Japan Record Award for his work on the NHK drama *Amachan* (2013). He founded Project FUKUSHIMA! after the 2011 earthquake and was awarded the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts in 2012. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, otomoyoshihide.com, imdb.com, discogs.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Blue Kite* (1994), Fi1m 78, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-blue-kite.md) ## Complete filmography (106) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Street Kingdom: Make your own sound.* (2026), Original Music Composer - *Rosanjin's Stove* (2026), series, Original Music Composer - *Hokusai's Daughter* (2025), Original Music Composer - *After the Quake* (2025), Original Music Composer - *I Swear* (2025), Original Music Composer - *After the Quake* (2025), series, Original Music Composer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/tv/after-the-quake.md) - *BAUS: The Ship's Voyage Continues* (2025), Original Music Composer - *Escape* (2025), Original Music Composer - *Gewalt no Mori - Kare ha Waseda de shinda* (2024), Original Music Composer - *All Lives* (2024), Original Music Composer - *City Hunter* (2024), Original Music Composer - *Goodbye Hoyaman* (2023), Music - *Tokumei!* (2023), series, Original Music Composer - *A Town Without Seasons* (2023), series, Original Music Composer - *We're Broke, My Lord!* (2023), Original Music Composer - *REVOLUTION+1* (2023), Original Music Composer - *LUPIN ZERO* (2022), series, Original Music Composer - *The Zen Diary* (2022), Original Music Composer - *Elpis* (2022), series, Original Music Composer - *Inu-Oh* (2022), Original Music Composer - *You've Got A Friend* (2022), Original Music Composer - *Noise* (2022), Original Music Composer - *Shimobee* (2022), series, Original Music Composer - *Olympiad Tokyo Kasumigaoka Public Apartments* (2021), Original Music Composer - *Backlight* (2021), Original Music Composer - *Whiplash of the Dead* (2021), Original Music Composer - *We Made a Beautiful Bouquet* (2021), Original Music Composer - *Keep Rolling* (2020), Original Music Composer - *Beneath the Shadow* (2019), Original Music Composer - *Taro the Fool* (2019), Original Music Composer - *When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes* (2019), Original Music Composer - *Magi: The Tensho Boys' Embassy* (2019), series, Original Music Composer - *Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story* (2019), series, Original Music Composer - *Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu* (2018), Original Music Composer - *The Fall of Icarus: Narita Stories* (2017), Original Music Composer - *Moon and Thunder* (2017), Original Music Composer - *Izakaya Fuji* (2017), series, Original Music Composer - *Time to Dance* (2016), Music - *Artist of Fasting* (2016), Original Music Composer - *Hana-Dama: Phantom* (2016), Original Music Composer - *The Actor* (2016), Original Music Composer - *Utenai Keikan* (2016), series, Music - *Orange* (2015), Original Music Composer - *Journey to the Shore* (2015), Original Music Composer - *Piece of Cake* (2015), Original Music Composer - *Hokusotan 2015 (Action Direct)* (2015), Original Music Composer - *The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories* (2014), Original Music Composer - *One for All, All for One* (2014), Original Music Composer - *Asunaro Sanzan Nana Byoushi* (2014), series, Original Music Composer - *The Long Goodbye* (2014), series, Original Music Composer - *Hana-Dama* (2014), Original Music Composer - *Passion* (2013), Original Music Composer - *Amachan* (2013), series, Original Music Composer - *Bozo* (2013), Music - *Yellow Elephant* (2013), Original Music Composer - *Suzuki Sensei* (2013), Original Music Composer - *OLO, the Boy from Tibet* (2012), Music - *Suzuki Sensei* (2011), series, Original Music Composer - *The Town's Children* (2011), Music - *Abraxas* (2010), Music - *Tokyo Island* (2010), Original Music Composer - *Kaidan Horror Classics* (2010), series, Music - *A Crowd of Three* (2010), Music - *Le revenant* (2010), Music - *Oh, My Buddha!* (2009), Music - *Bare Essence of Life* (2009), Music - *Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War* (2008), Music - *My Sister, My Love* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Prisoner/Terrorist* (2007), Original Music Composer - *Angel's Egg* (2006), Music - *KOCHAB* (2006), Music - *Dark Room Filled with Light* (2006), Sound - *Heart, Beating in the Dark* (2005), Music - *Rampo Noir* (2005), Original Music Composer - *Canary* (2005), Music - *Mind and Body* (2004), Original Music Composer - *Déracine* (2004), Original Music Composer - *Jump* (2003), Music - *Blue* (2003), Music - *Iden & Tity* (2003), Original Music Composer - *Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp* (2003), Music - *Sorry* (2002), Original Music Composer - *Kai-On* (2002), Music - *Concent* (2002), Original Music Composer - *Scanning of Modulations* (2001), Music - *To the Backstreet: The Films Kenji Nakagami Left Out* (2001), Music - *Kaza-hana* (2001), Original Music Composer - *Tokyo Elegy* (1999), Music - *Dead Beat* (1999), Original Music Composer - *Wait and See* (1998), Music - *Soft Skin* (1998), Original Music Composer - *Kitchen* (1997), Original Music Composer - *pierce LOVE&HATE* (1997), Original Music Composer - *TRANSIT ANARCHY* (1997), Music - *The Stunt Woman* (1996), Original Music Composer - *Hu-Du-Men* (1996), Original Music Composer - *The Sun Has Ears* (1996), Music - *Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Tokyo 1995: Unofficial Live Video* (1995), Actor - *Summer Snow* (1995), Original Music Composer - *Postman* (1995), Original Music Composer - *The Day the Sun Turned Cold* (1994), Original Music Composer - *Evil Dream* (1994), Original Music Composer - *The Blue Kite* (1994), Music — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-blue-kite.md) - *KICKS* (1991), Music - *ZERO HOUR* (1991), Music - *EXIT-B9* (1990), Music ## Gallery - ![Otomo Yoshihide (2007)](https://film.one/media/person/3865284/gallery-dd2178a40402.jpg) Otomo Yoshihide (2007) — andynew, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Yoshihide_%C5%8Ctomo-2.jpg/1280px-Yoshihide_%C5%8Ctomo-2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Japanese jazz musician Otomo Yoshihide (2005)](https://film.one/media/person/3865284/gallery-870644f50ba4.jpg) Japanese jazz musician Otomo Yoshihide (2005) — andynew, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Yoshihide_%C5%8Ctomo-9.jpg/1280px-Yoshihide_%C5%8Ctomo-9.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Musician Otomo Yoshihide play guitar at underpass in Beijing (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/3865284/gallery-e043f9504bb4.jpg) Musician Otomo Yoshihide play guitar at underpass in Beijing (2016) — Li Song, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Otomo_Yoshihide_at_Beijiing.jpg/1280px-Otomo_Yoshihide_at_Beijiing.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Yoshihide Otomo](https://film.one/media/person/3865284/gallery-e8fe630d1ce8.jpg) Yoshihide Otomo — Schorle, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Otomo_Yoshihide.jpg/1280px-Otomo_Yoshihide.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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