, known professionally as Julius Arnest "J.A." Caesar (born 6 October 1948), is a Japanese film and theater music

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. Seazer enjoyed popularity among students in

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during the 1960s, and worked closely with director Shuji Terayama and his theater

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until Terayama's death (besides

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, he wrote a few full-fledged

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s for

, including ''Shintokumaru''). He is a member of the theatrical company , better known as just ''Ban'yū Inryoku''. He gained more mainstream attention for his songs composed for the anime ''

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'', and has also composed the score to the animated film adaptation of

Suehiro Maruo (born January 28, 1956 in Nagasaki, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator, and painter. Biography Maruo graduated from junior high school in March 1972 but dropped out of senior high school. At the age of 15, he moved to Tokyo and began ...

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'' Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show'' (also known as ''Midori'' or ''Shojo-tsubaki'').

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