Yutaka Yamada
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.
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Movies (27)
Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
2026 · Original Music Composer
Golden Kamuy -The Abashiri Prison Raid-
2026 · Original Music Composer
Sink Your Teeth: A Tokyo Ghoul Celebration
2025 · Original Music Composer
Honeko Akabane's Bodyguards
2024 · Original Music Composer
Kingdom: Return of the Great General
2024 · Original Music Composer
Golden Kamuy
2024 · Original Music Composer
GREAT PRETENDER razbliuto
2024 · Original Music Composer
Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny
2023 · Original Music Composer
Tokyo Revengers 2 Part 1: Bloody Halloween - Destiny
2023 · Original Music Composer
Kingdom 2: Far and Away
2022 · Original Music Composer
Gatúbela: Acechada
2022 · Original Music Composer
Cube
2021 · Original Music Composer
Tokyo Revengers
2021 · Original Music Composer
Masked Ward
2020 · Original Music Composer
Kingdom
2019 · Original Music Composer
Cry Me a Sad River
2018 · Original Music Composer
Donten: Laughing Under the Clouds - Gaiden: Chapter 3 - Conspiracy of the Military
2018 · Original Music Composer
Bleach
2018 · Original Music Composer
Donten: Laughing Under the Clouds - Gaiden: Chapter 2 - The Tragedy of Fuuma Ninja Tribe
2018 · Original Music Composer
Infini-T Force the Movie: Farewell Gatchaman My Friend
2018 · Original Music Composer
Donten: Laughing Under the Clouds - Gaiden: Chapter 1 - One Year After the Battle
2017 · Original Music Composer
Let's Go, Jets!
2017 · Original Music Composer
One Week Friends
2017 · Original Music Composer
Death Note: Light Up the NEW World
2016 · Original Music Composer
Tokyo Ghoul: Jack
2015 · Music
Madame Marmalade's Mysterious Puzzle - Answer Version
2013 · Original Music Composer
Madame Marmalade's Mysterious Puzzle - Question Version
2013 · Original Music Composer
TV shows (28)
BLACK TORCH
2026 · Original Music Composer
My Melody & Kuromi
2025 · Original Music Composer, Songs
YAIBA: Samurai Legend
2025 · Original Music Composer
Golden Kamuy -The Hunt of Prisoners in Hokkaido-
2024 · Original Music Composer
Viral Hit
2024 · Original Music Composer
Red Roof on the Slope
2024 · Music
Yu Yu Hakusho
2023 · Original Music Composer
Guardian of the Market
2022 · Original Music Composer
Night Head 2041
2021 · Original Music Composer
Promise Cinderella
2021 · Original Music Composer
Alice in Borderland
2020 · Original Music Composer
Great Pretender
2020 · Original Music Composer, Main Title Theme Composer
Operation Z
2020 · Original Music Composer
Babylon
2019 · Original Music Composer
Vinland Saga
2019 · Original Music Composer
Infini-T Force
2017 · Original Music Composer
Síndrome del crimen
2017 · Original Music Composer
Everyone's Getting Married
2017 · Original Music Composer
Death Note: New Generation
2016 · Original Music Composer
Never Let Me Go
2016 · Original Music Composer
Fujiko
2015 · Original Music Composer
The Emperor's Cook
2015 · Original Music Composer
ボーダーライン
2014 · Original Music Composer
Water Polo Yankees
2014 · Original Music Composer
Tokyo Ghoul
2014 · Original Music Composer
The Hours of My Life
2014 · Original Music Composer
HUNTER - Women After Reward Money
2011 · Original Music Composer
Marumo's Story
2011 · Original Music Composer