# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenji-kawai
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:26:27.726Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenji-kawai"
name: "Kenji Kawai"
slug: "kenji-kawai"
description: "Kenji Kawai  is a Japanese music composer and arranger. Known as one of the biggest names in the soundtrack world, he has worked on a wide range of mixed media productions, including anime, TV shows, films, video games and ice shows. Among his credits are Toei's: Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever, Tsui Hark's Seven Swords and Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon; Wilson Yip's Ip Man; Mamoru Oshii's films: The Red Spectacles, StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops, Ghost in the Shell, Mobile Police Patlabor and Assault Girls. He also worked on the OVA and TV anime adaptations of: Vampire Princess Miyu, The Sky Crawlers and Avalon; the anime adaptations of Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma ½ and Maison Ikkoku; the live-action adaptation of Gantz and Hideo Nakata's films: Ring, Ring 2, Chaos, Dark Water and Kaidan."
tagline: "Japanese composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kenji_Kawai_20071028_Manga_Expo_06.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1957-04-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.45769333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0442766"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.kenjikawai.com/"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump