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Yoko Kanno
Composer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn March 18, 1963 (63 years)
Yoko Kanno (菅野 よう子, Kanno Yōko, born March 18, 1963) is a Japanese composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks of anime films, television series, live-action films, video games, and advertisements. She was born in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop and its live-action adaptation, Darker than Black, Macross Plus, Turn A Gundam, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Kids on the Slope, Genesis of Aquarion and Terror in Resonance, and has worked with the directors Hirokazu Kore-eda, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichirō Watanabe and Shōji Kawamori. Kanno has also composed music for pop artists Maaya Sakamoto and Kyōko Koizumi. She is also a keyboardist, and is the frontwoman for the Seatbelts, who perform many of Kanno's compositions and soundtracks.
Filmography
| 2023 | The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2021 | Cowboy Bebop (2021) (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2021 | Macross Frontier Galaxy Live 2021 Revenge · as Composer |
| 2021 | Cowboy Bebop: The Lost Session · as Composer |
| 2021 | Macross Frontier: Labyrinth of Time · as Composer |
| 2017 | Naotora: The Lady Warlord (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2015 | Our Little Sister · as Original Music Composer |
| 2014 | Terror in Resonance (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2014 | The World of Kanako · as Original Music Composer |
| 2014 | Space Dandy (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2013 | Gochisousan (TV Series) |
| 2013 | |
| 2012 | Kids on the Slope (TV Series) |
| 2012 | Aquarion EVOL (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2011 | Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. Solid State Society 3D · as Composer |
| 2011 | Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell · as Original Music Composer |
| 2010 | |
| 2009 | Macross Frontier: The False Songstress · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | Macross Frontier (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | Aquarion Movie: Ippatsu Gyakuten-hen · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | Genius Party · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | The Show Must Go On · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | Darker Than Black (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2006 | Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society · as Original Music Composer |
| 2006 | |
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| 2005 | |
| 2005 | Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man · as Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | Blood Gets in Your Eyes · as Original Music Composer |
| 2004 | Kamikaze Girls · as Original Music Composer |
| 2004 | Wolf's Rain OVA (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2003 | Wolf's Rain (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | Woman of Water · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | |
| 2002 | Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | |
| 2002 | |
| 2001 | Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - Knockin' on Heaven's Door · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | Earth Girl Arjuna (TV Series) |
| 2000 | Escaflowne: The Movie · as Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | Turn A Gundam (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | |
| 1998 | Brain Powerd (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | Cowboy Bebop (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | Macross Dynamite 7 (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1997 | Noiseman Sound Insect · as Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | |
| 1996 | |
| 1996 | Vision of Escaflowne (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Memories · as Composer |
| 1995 | Magnetic Rose · as Composer |
| 1995 | Macross 7: The Galaxy Is Calling Me! · as Composer |
| 1995 | Macross Plus Movie Edition · as Original Music Composer |
| 1994 | Macross 7 (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1994 | Macross Plus (TV Series) |
| 1994 | Takeru Yamato · as Composer |
| 1994 | Yamato Takeru (TV Series) |
| 1993 | Please Save My Earth (TV Series) |