1. Akira Ifukube (1914)

Japanese Composer

Composer of classical music and film scores whose work is most well recognized in the background of the Godzilla monster films by Toho productions.

2. Akira Yamaoka (1968)

Japanese Composer

Famous for composing the music in the Silent Hill horror video game series and accompanying film, this Japanese sound designer, producer, and songwriter also worked on such games as Shadows...

3. Yuki Kajiura (1965)

Japanese Composer

Music producer and composer known for contributing to the soundtracks for anime series like Noir and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. She has been a singer and keyboardist for the all-girl...

4. Yugo Kanno (1977)

Japanese Composer

Japanese composer and musician who has gained fame for his soundtrack work on feature films, television dramas, and anime series. His music can be heard on Psycho-Pass, Resident Evil: Infinite...

5. Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952)

Japanese Composer

Japanese composer and political activist who was a keyboardist for the popular 70's electronic band Yellow Magic Orchestra. He won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Golden Globe...

6. Yoko Shimomura (1967)

Japanese Composer

Considered the most famous female video game composer in the world, with Final Fight and Street Fighter II among her credits.

7. Kumi Tanioka (1974)

Japanese Composer

Kumi Tanioka is a Japanese video game music composer and musician. Born in Hiroshima Japan she graduated from Kobe University with a degree in musical performance and began working as...

8. Kota Hoshino (1975)

Japanese Composer

Kota Hoshino is a Japanese musical composer. He is the chief composer at the From Software video game development company his primary compositions being for the company's flagship franchise...

9. Masayoshi Soken (1975)

Japanese Composer

Masayoshi Soken is a Japanese video game composer and sound editor who has worked for Square Enix since 2001. He is best known for scoring Mario Hoops 3-on-3 and Final...

10. Yuji Nomi (Unknow)

Japanese Composer

Yuji Nomi is a Japanese composer. His work includes the Studio Ghibli films Whisper of the Heart and The Cat Returns. His mentor was Ryuichi Sakamoto where he helped him...

11. Kenji Yamamoto (composer born 1958) (1958)

Japanese Composer

Kenji Yamamoto is a Japanese music composer and arranger who has been responsible for producing and composing soundtracks including opening and ending sequence themes for various anime tokusatsu and video...

12. Akio Yasuraoka (1958)

Japanese Composer

Akio Yasuraoka is a Japanese composer. Yasuraoka studied with composers Teruyuki Noda and Akira Miyoshi graduating Tokyo University of the Arts in 1984 with a Masters degree in music...

13. Jun Miyake (Unknow)

Japanese Composer

Jun Miyake is a Japanese composer and trumpeter. His music was used in the film Pina nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in January 2012.

14. Hifumi Shimoyama (1930)

Japanese Composer

Hifumi Shimoyama is a Japanese composer of contemporary concert music. Since the 1960s Shimoyama's music has been regularly featured on World Music Days festivals across Europe and Asia and sponsored...

15. Shigeaki Saegusa (Unknow)

Japanese Composer

Shigeaki Saegusa Saegusa Shigeaki born July 8 1942) is a Japanese composer.

16. Hiroyuki Namba (1953)

Japanese Composer

Hiroyuki Namba is a Japanese musician. He has composed for and arranged songs from Japanese anime OVA and video games. Notably Hiroyuki Namba composed for Dallos the first anime...

17. Akira Nishimura (1953)

Japanese Composer

Akira Nishimura is a Japanese composer. Nishimura studied composition and musical theory on a graduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

18. J. A. Seazer (1948)

Japanese Composer

Takaaki Terahara known professionally as Julius Arnest J. A. Caesar is a Japanese film and theater music composer. Seazer enjoyed popularity among students in Japan during the 1960s and worked...

19. Masahiro Andoh (1954)

Japanese Composer

Masahiro Andoh is a Japanese composer guitarist and T-Square's leader from Chikusa-ku Nagoya Aichi Prefecture Japan. He was also one-third of Ottottrio a Superband led by three Japanese guitarists: himself...

20. Shigenobu Nakamura (Unknow)

Japanese Composer

Shigenobu Nakamura born in Osaka in 1950 is a Japanese composer and music teacher. He teaches at Kyushu University. He has written fifteen books and done both chamber music and...

21. Yasuaki Shimizu (1954)

Japanese Composer

Yasuaki Shimizu is a composer saxophonist and producer. He is known for his interpretations of the music of J. S. Bach in particular the Cello Suites 1-6 re-arranged for...

22. Kohei Tanaka (composer) (Unknow)

Japanese Composer

Kōhei Tanaka is a Japanese composer arranger and singer. He is affiliated with the music production company Imagine. He has created numerous musical scores for famous anime TV series OVAs...

23. Toshihiko Sahashi (Unknow)

Japanese Composer

Toshihiko Sahashi is an accomplished Japanese composer. He graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1986. Sahashi has composed music for various anime series video games...

24. Toshio Masuda (composer) (1959)

Japanese Composer

Toshio Masuda is a Japanese composer. He has composed and synthesized scores for several Japanese television shows and animated series. Masuda is perhaps best known as the composer of the...

25. Shigeru Umebayashi (1951)

Japanese Composer

Shigeru Umebayashi is a Japanese composer. Once the leader of Japan's new-wave rock band EX composer Shigeru Umebayashi began scoring films in 1985 when the band broke up. He...

26. Kaoru Wada (1962)

Japanese Composer

Kaoru Wada is a Japanese music composer music arranger conductor music orchestrator and pianist from Shimonoseki Yamaguchi Prefecture. He studied at the Tokyo College of Music. He is popularly known...

27. Motoyuki Shitanda (1952)

Japanese Composer

Motoyuki Shitanda is a contemporary Japanese composer music teacher musicologist and conductor. Shitanda studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts under Mareo Ishiketa Toshiro Mayuzumi and Kenjiro Urata graduating...

28. Hiroki Kikuta (1962)

Japanese Composer

Hiroki Kikuta is a Japanese video game composer and game designer. His major works are Secret of Mana Seiken Densetsu 3 Sōkaigi and Koudelka for which he also acted as...

29. Ichiko Hashimoto (musician) (Unknow)

Japanese Composer

Ichiko Hashimoto is a jazz pianist composer and singer. She has also acted in television and film. Hashimoto was born in Kobe grew up in Tokyo and started playing the...

30. Noriyuki Iwadare (1964)

Japanese Composer

Noriyuki Iwadare is a Japanese video game composer.

31. Jun Nagao (1964)

Japanese Composer

Jun Nagao is a Japanese composer. Nagao began his career as an arranger for orchestras and wind ensembles. Today he is known for his many original compositions including several works...

32. Mamoru Fujieda (1955)

Japanese Composer

Mamoru Fujieda is a Japanese composer associated with the postminimalist movement of contemporary classical music. He received a Ph. D. in music from the University of California San Diego in...

33. Akifumi Tada (1964)

Japanese Composer

Akifumi Tada is a Japanese anime music composer and video game composer. He has composed for anime and video game soundtracks and singles.

34. Hitomi Kaneko (1965)

Japanese Composer

Ms. Hitomi Kaneko is a Japanese classical music composer.

35. Toshiyuki Watanabe (1955)

Japanese Composer

Toshiyuki Watanabe is a Japanese musician and composer who has scored several films and anime most notably the Mothra films in the 1990s. He is the son of legendary...

36. Hayato Matsuo (1965)

Japanese Composer

Hayato Matsuo is a Japanese video game and anime composer arranger and orchestrator. He has worked on titles such as Front Mission 3 Final Fantasy XII the Shenmue series and...

37. Taro Iwashiro (1965)

Japanese Composer

Taro Iwashiro is a Japanese composer.

38. Akira Mitake (1956)

Japanese Composer

Akira Mitake is a Japanese composer. Mitake composed Kawa no nagare no yō ni Like the Flow of the River a song recorded by Japanese enka singer Hibari Misora.

39. Shinji Miyazaki (1956)

Japanese Composer

Shinji Miyazaki is a Japanese composer and arranger and also a J-Pop Singer. He was born in Kobe and lived in a variety of areas on the island of Shikoku...

40. H-Wonder (1968)

Japanese Composer

H-wonder is a composer and arranger born in Japan. He debuted in 1995 under his birth name Wada Hiroki. In June 1998 he stopped being a solo artist and changed...

41. Takeo Miratsu (1960)

Japanese Composer

Takeo Miratsu was a Japanese music composer for video games and anime. He was a member of Twin Amadeus who composed songs for the Beatmania IIDX series of music video...

42. Taku Iwasaki (1968)

Japanese Composer

Taku Iwasaki is a Japanese composer and arranger. His hometown is Tokyo Japan. He is a graduate of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Iwasaki is generally...

43. Hajime Mizoguchi (1960)

Japanese Composer

Hajime Mizoguchi is a Japanese cellist and composer. Mizoguchi started playing piano in 1963 at the age of 3 and the cello in 1971. From 1978–1985 he attended the Tokyo...

44. Masamichi Amano (1957)

Japanese Composer

Masamichi Amano is a Japanese music composer arranger and conductor. He studied at the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo and graduated in 1982. His orchestral works include the musical...

45. Toshiro Yabuki (1961)

Japanese Composer

Toshirō Yabuki born on December 22 1961 is a Japanese music composer record producer keyboardist and guitarist. He is also the director of music production company P. M CREATORS.

46. Tomoki Hasegawa (Unknow)

Japanese Composer

Tomoki Hasegawa III is a Japanese composer and arranger of music best known for his work on anime soundtracks born on 19 July 1957 in Ikeda Osaka Prefecture Japan. He...

47. Yasuhiko Fukuda (1957)

Japanese Composer

Yasuhiko Fukuda is a Japanese producer arranger and keyboardist.

48. Kow Otani (1957)

Japanese Composer

Kow Otani is a Japanese composer of anime films and video games. He is best known for creating the soundtracks to several Gamera films the movie Godzilla Mothra and King...

49. Kenji Kawai (1957)

Japanese Composer

Kenji Kawai born April 23 1957 in Shinagawa Tokyo Tokyo is a Japanese music composer for motion pictures anime movies video games and televised programs. He has contributed to the...

50. Kosuke Saito (1997)

Japanese Composer

Kosuke Saito is a DJ and music game composer. He is best known for his work in the Konami Bemani series. He has produced music under a number of...