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2027/8/21〜9/20（4都市8公演） Upcoming

Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#23（梶浦由記）

大宮ソニックシティ大ホール（8/21・22）／Niterra日本特殊陶業市民会館ビレッジホール（8/28・29）／東大阪市文化創造館 Dream House 大ホール（9/11・12）／昭和女子大学人見記念講堂（9/19・20）

2027/4/24〜4/25 Upcoming

スパイダーマン：ノー・ウェイ・ホーム in コンサート

東京国際フォーラムホールA（指揮：栗田博文／管弦楽：東京フィルハーモニー交響楽団／音楽：マイケル・ジアッキノ）

2027/3/22 Upcoming

THE IDOLM@STER SHINY COLORS ORCHESTRA CONCERT -Radiant Chord-

パシフィコ横浜国立大ホール（昼夜2公演）／指揮：栗田博文、管弦楽：東京フィルハーモニー交響楽団、283バンド

2027/3/20 Upcoming

アニメ10周年記念『幼女戦記』フィルムコンサート

大田区民ホール・アプリコ（東京／昼夜2公演）／音楽：片山修志（Team-MAX）、出演：悠木碧・小林裕介・濱野大輝・戸松遥・MYTH & ROID

2027/3/20〜3/21（東京）、3/27〜3/28（大阪） Upcoming

FINAL FANTASY 40th Anniversary Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY - Eternal / 悠久

東京国際フォーラムホールA／グランキューブ大阪（指揮：アーニー・ロス）

2027/3/19〜3/21 Upcoming

PERSONA SUPER LIVE 2027

横浜BUNTAI（神奈川・横浜／『ペルソナ』シリーズ30周年の大型音楽ライブ、5年ぶり開催。出演者は後日発表）

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Tokyo Banmatsuri, Part Four ~Yuki Hayashi~

2024-11-08

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[Grand Finale] Japan's World-Class "Film Score" Festival! Report From the Day Kyoto Was the Hottest Place in Japan: ~The End of the Festival~

2024-10-01

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[Penultimate Act] Japan's World-Class "Film Score" Festival! Report From the Day Kyoto Was the Hottest Place in Japan: The Kyoban Festival Main Event, Part 4

2024-10-01

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[Continued Again] Japan's World-Class "Film Score" Festival! Report From the Day Kyoto Was the Hottest Place in Japan: The Kyoban Festival Main Event, Part 3

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[Continued] Japan's World-Class "Film Score" Festival! Report From the Day Kyoto Was the Hottest Place in Japan: The Kyoban Festival Main Event, Part 2

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Japan's World-Class "Film Score" Festival! Report From the Day Kyoto Was the Hottest Place in Japan: The Kyoban Festival Main Event, Part 1

2024-10-01

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2025-12-26

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Tokyo Banmatsuri, Part Four ~Yuki Hayashi~

[Grand Finale] Japan's World-Class "Film Score" Festival! Report From the Day Kyoto Was the Hottest Place in Japan: ~The End of the Festival~

[Penultimate Act] Japan's World-Class "Film Score" Festival! Report From the Day Kyoto Was the Hottest Place in Japan: The Kyoban Festival Main Event, Part 4

[Continued Again] Japan's World-Class "Film Score" Festival! Report From the Day Kyoto Was the Hottest Place in Japan: The Kyoban Festival Main Event, Part 3

[Continued] Japan's World-Class "Film Score" Festival! Report From the Day Kyoto Was the Hottest Place in Japan: The Kyoban Festival Main Event, Part 2

Japan's World-Class "Film Score" Festival! Report From the Day Kyoto Was the Hottest Place in Japan: The Kyoban Festival Main Event, Part 1

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The First Soundtrack I Bought Myself—"Azumanga Daioh"—and My Encounter With Anime Scores

The Score for the Film Hyakueme. Is Insane. That's a Jazz Session Called “The 100-Meter Dash”

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Six Arenas, One Composer — James Newton Howard’s 35-Track Score for “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping” Arrives November 20

The Studio Changed Four Times, but the Music Never Did: Minami-ke Korekara Premieres April 2027 with Yasuhiro Misawa Scoring for a 19th Year

Zimmer Returns to the Deep After Nine Years: 'Blue Planet III' Soundtrack Arrives Digitally Nov 13, 2-CD Set Dec 11

Returning to 'Paradise' After 12 Years, the Same Composer Lays Down the Sound Again: NARASAKI's 'Expelled from Paradise: Resonance' Soundtrack Collects 47 Score Tracks on 2 CDs, Out November 13

Metal Vocals for Sauron's Armored Servant: Bear McCreary's 22-Track 'The Rings of Power' Season 3 Soundtrack, Featuring the AURORA Co-Write 'Morning Shall Come', Arrives November 13

Hollywood's low end meets India's song-driven cinema on the same epic — Hans Zimmer × A.R. Rahman's 'Ramayana: Part 1' soundtrack EP, and what five tracks reveal about who did what

The Made in Abyss Composer and the Halo Composer Both Turned Up in the Game Categories: Looking for Japan-Connected Names Among the 2026 Hollywood Music in Media Awards Nominees

The Same Crew, a Fifth Round of Dry Laughter: Carter Burwell's 'Wild Horse Nine' Soundtrack Arrives Nov 6 Alongside Martin McDonagh's New Film

Carrying a Father's Melodies to the Final Chapter: Akira Miyagawa and Shu Kanematsu's Yamato Forever REBEL3199 Soundtrack Vol.02 Arrives with Chapter 7

The Man Who Scored the "Night" 14 Years Ago Returns to It: Hideyuki Fukasawa's "Witch on the Holy Night" Movie Soundtrack Arrives Dec. 23 as a 2-CD Set

Reunited 22 years later on the football field: Explosions in the Sky score "The Mosquito Bowl" — a 17-track soundtrack that reunites Peter Berg and Buzz Bissinger for the first time since "Friday Night Lights"

Shelving the Orchestra to Rebuild the Sound of Avatar: Jeremy Zuckerman's 36-Track Avatar: Seven Havens Soundtrack Lands with the Season Finale

Oscar-Winning Composer Returns to LAIKA's Handcrafted Forest — Dario Marianelli's 26-Track "Wildwood" Soundtrack Arrives Oct. 23 Alongside the Film

It Starts With a Hum and Ends in a War Chant: Hans Zimmer and Timothée Chalamet Release "Desert Chant," the First Single from the Dune: Part Three Soundtrack

The Trigun Guitarist Scores Night City by Day in 39 Tracks: Tsuneo Imahori's Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 Score Album Arrives the Same Day as the Series

The Composer Who Scored a Robot Mother and Her Child Now Scores a Witch Mother and Her Daughter: Kris Bowers Takes on Disney's 'Hexed'

A Guitarist-Violinist Scores His First Anime: SUGIZO's 'DARK MACHINE THE ANIMATION' Soundtrack, 40 Tracks on 2CD Plus a Self-Selected 2LP, Out December 9

A Band With a Pianist Scores the Story of a Girl Who Lost Her Hearing — jizue Composes the Music for the "Amayo no Tsuki" Anime, Coming in 2027

What Does an Oscar-Winning Composer Play for a Man Who Lost His Face? Volker Bertelmann's 23-Track 'Clayface' Score—and the Chicago Ballad Right After the Theme

Godzilla Roars from Even Lower with 24 Trombones and 32 Cellos: Naoki Sato's "Godzilla -0.0" Soundtrack Arrives on CD Nov. 4 and 2LP Dec. 11

What Plays After Nirvana? Kosuke Noma and Takayuki "Kojiro" Sasaki Score the Anime "The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All," Recorded in Tokyo and LA

The Same Composer Scored Cosmic Solitude and a Heist Caper: Daniel Pemberton Named Film Composer of the Year at the 26th World Soundtrack Awards, While Hannah Peel Takes Discovery Over Mari Fukuhara

Desplat, Not Reznor & Ross, Scores the Sequel to The Social Network: Sorkin's The Social Reckoning Score in 17 Tracks, with Renée Fleming Singing "The Lament"

Standing by the One Who Spoke First, in 22 Cues — Harumi Fuuki's 'Firstvoice' Soundtrack Scores Japan's First Harassment Trial

"Passionate Duelists" Is Finally Streaming After 26 Years: Two Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Soundtracks Arrive on Subscription Services — 62 Tracks by Shinkichi Mitsumune

5 of the 20 Were Born in the '90s and '00s: The "PlayStation Game Music Awards 2026" Nominees — a Game Score Popularity Contest Decided by Spotify Streams, Open Until Oct. 31

The same man scored whale song and Gandhi's march — George Fenton dies at 76: the British craftsman who linked 'The Blue Planet' and 'Groundhog Day'

A Single Piano in the Land of Puccini and Morricone: Yoko Kanno's "Chikyu Shutsubotsu?" Project Heads to Lucca's 60th Edition and Milan for "PIANO ME"

The Man Who Scored Pretty Cure Is Touring Europe With a Metal Band: Yasuharu Takanashi's FAR EAST GROOVE Brings NARUTO and FAIRY TAIL to 10 Cities in 8 Countries

A Tokyo Composer Scored a Belgian Girl Growing Up in Kobe — Mari Fukuhara's "Little Amélie" Is Up for World Soundtrack Awards Discovery of the Year, Announced Oct. 10

Nine Composers Score One Cellist's Life: Tony Gilroy's 'Behemoth!' with Giacchino, James Newton Howard and Silvestri Premieres at NYFF

Kyoto Animation Chose a Score Without Strings: Hitomi Koto's British Brass Band Sound for 'Twentieth Century Electric Catalogue'

"Guile's Theme" Goes With Everything: The Cobra Kai Duo Adds a Guitar Solo to Yoko Shimomura's Classic in the Live-Action Street Fighter Soundtrack

"Staring at the Ceiling for About 10 Hours" Arrives on Streaming, 18 Years to the Day — Free Game Irisu Syndrome! Gets Its First Official Soundtrack, 20 Tracks by watson on Oct 2

55 Tracks in One Month: DÉ DÉ MOUSE Scores an Entire Anime Solo for the First Time with the Mebius Dust Soundtrack

The Main Theme That Carried 49 Episodes Became a Song in the Final Stretch: Arisa Okehazama's 3-Disc 'DIGIMON BEATBREAK' Soundtrack Arrives Sept. 30

The Man Behind goat Scores the 13th-Century Mongol Court: Koshiro Hino's 48-Track, 2-Disc Soundtrack for Naoko Yamada's 'Jaadugar' Arrives Sept. 30

109 Tracks From a 30-Year-Old PS1 Classic Finally Hit Streaming — Revelations: Persona OST Goes Digital, and Shiori Sasaki Sings the 4-Disc Persona 4 Revival Soundtrack

A Jazz Piano Trio Scores the Asadora for the First Time: fox capture plan's Music for NHK's Blossom, Swinging Through a Novelist's Life From September 28

At 82, Still Writing the Same Friendship: Randy Newman's Toy Story 5 Score Lands on Japanese CD

Wong Kar-wai's "Chosen Music" Finally Comes to Vinyl in Japan — Five Director-Supervised Soundtracks Arrive on Color Vinyl November 4

A Sound Asleep in a Warehouse Finally Plays, 53 Years On: Bob Sakuma's Score for Super Robot Red Baron Gets Its First Soundtrack, With Roughly 60 Cues

Ten Years of Writing Both the Underscore and the Band's Own Music: Akihito Matsuda's Sound Will Join Lands the Day the Final Euphonium Film Opens

The Heron's Score, Retold at Hisaishi's Own Piano: Symphonic Suite the Boy and the Heron Arrives Nov 6 with 14 Movements

A Geidai Maverick Scores a Higashino Mystery: Shohei Amimori's 29 Tracks for ‘The Swan and the Bat’ and the Map of Aichi They Draw

The Man Who Scored an Adventure with Whistles and Scat: ‘Gamba no Boken’ Turns 50, and the Sound of “Ahead-of-His-Time Genius” Takeo Yamashita Returns

Two Namco Alumni Score Tezuka's Princess Knight: Satoru Kosaki and Ryuichi Takada's 36-Track Soundtrack for Netflix's 'The Ribbon Hero' Arrives on CD

Kusuriya Keeps Its Three-Composer Team, Arisa Okehazama Juggles Three Shows, and Junket Bank Is Delayed: A Composer-First Guide to Autumn 2026 Anime

The Golden Kamuy Composer Scores Twins Who Divide Day and Night: Kenichiro Suehiro's 58-Track Yomi no Tsugai Soundtrack Out September 16

Fujino and Kyomoto, Rendered on Four Classical Guitars: Yuta Bandoh's 30-Track Score for Hirokazu Kore-eda's Live-Action "Look Back," Out September 12

Two Japanese Composers Lit the Galaxy With Sound: 'Star Wars: Visions Presents The Ninth Jedi' OST Out Aug 7, as Nobuko Toda & Kazuma Jinnouchi Sound the Force From Disney

Japan's Top Orchestra Plays Pokemon: The NHK Symphony x Pokemon Tour, Where a Centennial and a 30th Anniversary Meet

The Man Who Won Advertising's Big Three With 300 Commercials Now Scores Kinema Citrus's 15th-Anniversary Goodbye: yuma yamaguchi's 'Goodbye, Lara' OST Lands Sept 30, Brazilian Voice in Tow

Hiroyuki Sawano's Gundam Scores Reunite for One Night: UC, NT and Hathaway Reborn with Orchestra + Band in February 2027

How "the Sound of Mario" Became a Galaxy in Hollywood's Hands: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Soundtrack Drops Sept 9, as Brian Tyler Scatters Koji Kondo's Motifs Across the Stars

'Kokuho,' 'Bakebake,' 'Lazarus': How Japan's Biggest Music Award Quietly Built a Home for Film Scoring

The Songwriter Who Became “The Fourth Satoko”: Satoko Shibata Scores 20 Tracks of Story for the Film Satoko wa Itsumo

The ‘Melodies That Transcend Time’ Ring Out Once More on CD — Chrono Trigger’s 30th-Anniversary Orchestra, Yasunori Mitsuda’s Full 20 Tracks Arrive as a Live Album on 9/16

The Sound of "Final Fantasy Tactics" Lives in a Hand-Drawn Book from a Nara Mountain Village: Hitoshi Sakimoto Scores "Witch of the Dark Castle" in 13 Tracks of Fantasy's Origins

The Man Who Poured the World's Sounds Into 10 Seconds: On Its First Anniversary, Hiroaki Tsutsumi's Film Score for “Hyakuemu.” Rings Out Again in a Revival

"Rhythm And Police" Returns: Akihiko Matsumoto's Soundtrack for 'Bayside Shakedown N.E.W.' Drops September 18, Same Day as the Film

A Score Born From “Trash” Hit No.1 in South Africa: Taku Iwasaki’s Gachiakuta and the Moment Anime Music Danced Across Borders

A Doctor Chasing a Newborn's First Cry With One Ear, and a Composer Who Refuses to Stay in One Lane: Yugo Kanno's 26-Track Score for 'First Cry: Maternal and Child Emergency Rescue Team' Arrives Sept 9

The Sound of a "Detective" Rung by Two Women in Tandem — The Precure Movie Soundtrack Drops Sept 16, the Deductions of Erika Fukazawa x Misaki Umase

From One Maestro to a Three-Composer Collective: Ghost in the Shell OST Arrives Sept 9 on CD, Sept 30 on 2LP

A Hitmaker of TV-Drama Scores Confesses Again—Masahiro Tokuda’s “Kokuhaku” Soundtrack Arrives September 9