Person Details

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Aliases: やまだ豊

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan

Homepage: https://www.yutakayamada.com/

Movie Involvements: 15

TV Involvements: 15


Most Famous Work

Biography

Yutaka Yamada is a Los Angeles-based music composer known for his work on the anime series "Tokyo Ghoul", Amazon Prime's "VINLAND SAGA", Netflix’s “Great Pretender” and major Netflix series "Alice in Borderland". His masterpiece soundtracks for "Tokyo Ghoul" have gained worldwide popularity with related videos totaling over 130 million views on Youtube. ​In 2018, Yamada composed for "Cry Me a Sad River", a Chinese film which had succeeded with USD $51Mil. In the same year, Eminem sampled Yamada's masterpiece "Glassy Sky (from "Tokyo Ghoul")" on his song "Good Guy" in his "Kamikaze" album. In 2019, he worked alongside Sony Pictures for their mega-hit live-action film "KINGDOM" in which he received the 43rd Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Music Score. In 2020, Yamada collaborated with WIT STUDIO again on their original series "GREAT PRETENDER". He had also worked with Riot Games for Spirit Blossom, a League of Legends film project. In 2021, his score for Netflix’s “GREAT PRETENDER” was nominated for both Crunchyroll Anime Awards: Best Score and Best Opening. ​Born in 1989, Yamada graduated from Senzoku Gakuen College of Music where he passionately studied musical composition. In 2009, he entered and won the first prize at VIENNA INSTRUMENTS Strings Arrangement Contest. Today, he is represented by Soundtrack Music Associates, and has since relocated his production base from Tokyo to Sonic Fuel Studios in Los Angeles.

Most Famous Work

Kingdom 2: Far and Away
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7

Kingdom 2: Far and Away

(2022) Original Music Composer
Kingdom 3: The Flame of Fate
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8

Kingdom 3: The Flame of Fate

(2023) Original Music Composer
Tokyo Ghoul
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8

Tokyo Ghoul

(2014) Original Music Composer
Great Pretender
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8

Great Pretender

(2020) Main Title Theme Composer
Alice in Borderland
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8

Alice in Borderland

(2020) Original Music Composer
Kingdom
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7

Kingdom

(2019) Original Music Composer
Vinland Saga
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9

Vinland Saga

(2019) Original Music Composer
Tokyo Revengers
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8

Tokyo Revengers

(2021) Original Music Composer

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
Year Character Movie/Tv

Sound

Year Role Movie/Tv
2024 Original Music Composer
2023 Original Music Composer
2022 Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
2021 Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
2020 Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Main Title Theme Composer
2019 Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
2018 Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
2017 Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
2016 Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
2015 Music
2014 Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
2011 Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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