Kenji Kawai

Kenji Kawai is a Japanese composer and arranger, born in Tokyo on 23 April 1957. He writes for anime and live-action cinema and has a long association with the director Mamoru Oshii, for whom he scored the Patlabor films, Ghost in the Shell (1995) and Avalon (2001). His other film work includes the horror film Ring (1998) and the Ip Man series that began in 2008. Kawai dropped out of a nuclear engineering course at Tokai University and left the Shobi music school after about six months.