Otomo Yoshihide (大友 良英, Otomo Yoshihide, born 1 August 1959) is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist known for his work in experimental music, free improvisation, and film scoring. Emerging in the 1990s as the leader of the experimental group Ground Zero, he became an influential figure in avant-garde and electroacoustic improvisation. Otomo has built an extensive career as a composer for film and television, contributing music to dozens of projects across Asia and beyond. His early film work includes The Blue Kite (1993), The Day the Sun Turned Cold (1994), and Blue (2002), with the reception of his 1994 score helping establish his reputation in cinema. His most widely recognized work is the soundtrack for the NHK television drama Amachan (2013), which became a major commercial success, reaching No. 5 on the Oricon Albums Chart and earning him the Japan Record Award. Beyond music, he is also known for founding Project FUKUSHIMA! following the 2011 earthquake, for which he received the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts in 2012.
10 movies
Whereabouts of Sound
2022·0.0
The Unnameable Dance
2022·0.0
Mother, I've Pretty Much Forgotten Your Face
2016·0.0
Amplified Gesture
2012·0.0
We Don't Care About Music Anyway
2011·6.3
Kikoe
2009·0.0
Muhlifein
2007·0.0
AA
2006·4.6
Nor Noise
2004·0.0
Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Tokyo 1995: Unofficial Live Video
1995·0.0