Apr 23, 1957 - Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Kenji Kawai is a Japanese music composer for video games, television and movies. He has contributed to the musical scores for numerous films from Japan and other Asian countries, working in film genres as diverse as anime, horror, sci-fi and historical epic.
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| Movie | 1995 | Ghost in the Shell: Production Report | Self | |
| Movie | 2006 | Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters | Hamburger Tetsu (voice) | |
| Movie | 2004 | The Making of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence | Self | |
| Movie | 2008 | Kenji Kawai - Cinema Symphony | Composer | |
| Movie | 2008 | Film director Mamoru Oshii: Turning fantasies into reality |
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| Movie | 2001 | Avalon | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 1987 | The Red Spectacles | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2010 | Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: -A Wakening of the Trailblazer- | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2020 | The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2005 | Seven Swords | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2010 | 28½ | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2002 | Dark Water | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2011 | Towa no Quon 1: The Ephemeral Petals | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2000 | Sleeping Bride | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2009 | Shrill Cries: Reshuffle | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2018 | Servamp Movie: Alice in the Garden | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 1991 | Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2019 | Shishigari | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2010 | Shoka | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2010 | Gantz | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2011 | Wild 7 | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 1992 | Talking Head | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2008 | Kenji Kawai - Cinema Symphony | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2008 | Orochi - Blood | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2018 | Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2004 | Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 1990 | MAROKO | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2010 | Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2008 | Ip Man | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2010 | Ip Man 2 | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 1991 | I am Devilman, the Devil! | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2008 | The Sky Crawlers | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 1990 | Devilman - Volume 2: Demon Bird | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2001 | The Princess Blade | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2014 | Hakuouki: Warrior Spirit of the Blue Sky | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2004 | Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2023 | The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 1993 | Patlabor 2: The Movie | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2021 | Limbo | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2022 | Toku: Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru ~Setsugetsuka~ Yuki no Maki | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2011 | Towa no Quon 2: Dancing Orchid in Chaos | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 1991 | Ranma 1/2 the Movie: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2013 | Higurashi: When They Cry - Kaku: Outbreak | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2015 | The Next Generation Patlabor: Tokyo War | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2014 | Genome Hazard | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2010 | Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 1991 | Burn Up | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2011 | Gantz: Perfect Answer | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2010 | Chatroom | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2014 | Garm Wars: The Last Druid | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2010 | Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2022 | I Can't Stop Biting You | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2011 | Xi AVANT | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 1989 | All That Gundam | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2024 | Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture - Act 1 | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 1988 | One Pound Gospel | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 1991 | Mermaid Forest | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2012 | 009 Re:Cyborg | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2005 | Inferno | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 1988 | Vampire Princess Miyu | Music Editor | Sound |
| Movie | 1987 | Twilight Q | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2004 | Premonition | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 1991 | DRAGON FIST | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2014 | THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第1章 | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2014 | THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第2章 | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2014 | THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第6章 | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2014 | THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第4章 | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2014 | THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第3章 | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2014 | THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第5章 | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2015 | THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー 第7章 | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 1991 | Kekko Kamen | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 1990 | Hana no Asuka-gumi! 2: Lonely Cats Battle Royale | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2008 | Ghost in the Shell 2.0 | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 1999 | Ring 2 | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2023 | Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part1 | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 1995 | Ghost in the Shell | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2009 | Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2024 | Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2009 | The Hovering Blade | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2006 | Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2023 | Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2 | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2016 | RE:BORN | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2008 | The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2008 | Death Note: L Change the WorLd | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2000 | Chaos | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2000 | Ghiblies | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2024 | Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture - Act 2 | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2007 | The Women of Fast Food | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2010 | 009: The Reopening | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 1987 | Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 1989 | Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk II | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2013 | Tales from the Dark 2 | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 1990 | Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk III | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 1990 | Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk V | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 1998 | Ring | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2006 | Death Note | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2009 | Assault Girls | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2011 | Towa no Quon 3: The Complicity of Dreams | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2002 | Bloody Mallory | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2006 | Death Note: The Last Name | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2013 | Hakuouki: Wild Dance of Kyoto | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2006 | Trapped Ashes | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2006 | Battle of the Warriors | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2018 | Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2018 | Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2008 | Shrill Cries of Summer | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2005 | Antarctic Journal | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2011 | Towa no Quon 5: The Return of the Invincible | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2013 | Sadako 3D 2 | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2018 | Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!! | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2011 | Tormented | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2011 | Towa no Quon 4: The Roaring Anxiety | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2011 | Towa no Quon 6: Eternal Quon | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2017 | Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FINAL: Build & Ex-Aid with Legend Riders | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2005 | Reincarnation | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2015 | Ip Man 3 | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2017 | Resident Evil: Vendetta | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 1991 | Licca: Mysterious Magical Ring | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2014 | Tomcat's Big Adventure | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 1992 | Patlabor: One Day of Noa | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2002 | Samouraïs | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2001 | Sadistic and Masochistic | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2017 | Dawn of the Nazis | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2017 | Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2018 | Kamen Rider Build The Movie: Be The One | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2006 | Running Wild | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2002 | Samouraïs | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 1990 | Project A-Ko Versus Battle 1: Grey Side | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2012 | NEXT A-Class | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 1999 | You're Under Arrest: The Motion Picture | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2013 | Tales from the Dark 1 | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 1991 | Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2019 | Ip Man 4: The Finale | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2002 | WXIII: Patlabor The Movie 3 | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2005 | Open Your Mind | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2005 | Open Your Mind | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 2001 | Unloved | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2007 | Kaidan | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2015 | Gamera | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2008 | Kenji Kawai - Cinema Symphony | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1988 | Star Virgin | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2009 | Eden of the East: Air Communication | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 1987 | Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future: Bio Dread Strike Mission - Skill Level 2 | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 1989 | Patlabor: The Movie | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2013 | Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2025 | Candle Stick | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2025 | Kamen Rider Majade with Girls Remix | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| Movie | 2006 | Dragon Tiger Gate | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2025 | Smith Peaks | Music | Sound |
| Movie | 2020 | Remotely Killed | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2009 | Apocalypse: The Second World War | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 1971 | Kamen Rider | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 1990 | Samurai Pizza Cats | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2014 | Nezumi-Kozo, Running Around Edo | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2016 | Mob Psycho 100 | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2014 | Border | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 1999 | The Woman of S.R.I. | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2010 | Steel Frame | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2008 | Nanase Once More | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2014 | The Perfect Insider | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 1988 | Patlabor: The Mobile Police | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2011 | Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2004 | Windy Tales | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2012 | Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2004 | Ultraman Nexus | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2011 | Tsukahara Bokuden | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2021 | Vlad Love | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 1988 | Vampire Princess Miyu | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 1990 | Patlabor: The New Files | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2014 | World Trigger | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 1992 | Wolf Guy | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 1996 | Blue Seed Beyond | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2020 | Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2016 | JOKER GAME | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2018 | The Ryuo's Work is Never Done! | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 1994 | The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 1994 | The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA | Songs | Sound |
| TV Show | 2017 | Sand Whale and Me | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2017 | Sand Whale and Me | Mixing Engineer | Crew |
| TV Show | 2014 | Barakamon | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 1991 | Luna Varga | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2019 | No Guns Life | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2016 | Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2021 | Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2016 | Servamp | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2013 | The Complex: Prologue | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2007 | Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 1989 | Patlabor: The TV Series | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 1995 | Wild Knights Gulkeeva | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2005 | Starship Operators | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2015 | The Perfect Insider | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2012 | Umechan Sensei | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2023 | The Fire Hunter | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2006 | The Prince of Tennis: The National Tournament | Art Direction | Art |
| TV Show | 2023 | My Home Hero | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 1999 | Dai-Guard: Terrestrial Defense Corp. | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 1987 | Twilight Q | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2014 | The Next Generation: Patlabor | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2009 | Eden of the East | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 1997 | Hyper Police | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 1997 | Vampire Princess Miyu | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2008 | ＮＨＫスペシャル 沸騰都市 | Musician | Sound |
| TV Show | 1995 | Sorcerer Hunters | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2002 | MiniPato: Mobile Police Patlabor Minimum | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2004 | Otogi Zoshi: The Legend of Magatama | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2023 | Ōoku: The Inner Chambers | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2015 | Ghost Theater | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2011 | NHKスペシャル 未解決事件 | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2006 | Fate/stay night | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 1994 | Mighty Space Miners | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2024 | Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 2015 | Apocalypse: Stalin | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2025 | Umamusume: Cinderella Gray | Original Music Composer | Sound |
| TV Show | 2021 | Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the East | Music | Sound |
| TV Show | 1996 | Yat, The Space Patrol | Original Music Composer | Sound |
