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Yoko Kanno
Composer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn March 18, 1963 (61 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
| 2013 | Gochisousan (TV Series) |
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| 2012 | Kids on the Slope (TV Series) |
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| 2005 | Aquarion (TV Series) |
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| 2001 | Earth Girl Arjuna (TV Series) |
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| 1996 | Vision of Escaflowne (TV Series) |
| 1994 | Macross Plus (TV Series) |
| 1994 | Yamato Takeru (TV Series) |
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| 1993 | Please Save My Earth (TV Series) |