is a Japanese composer and arranger. She works on music in wide range of areas, such as anime, films, television series, video games and concerts. She has written scores for over 100 movies, over 200 television titles, video games, various types of events, concerts, theaters, among others. Ōshima is one of the most prolific living composers for film, anime and video game. She has released over 300 CDs including film soundtracks and artist CDs. Her works include composition for '' Godzilla vs. Megaguirus'', ''

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'', and '' Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.'' movies and scores for numerous

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television series, including ''

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'', '' Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Xam'd: Lost Memories'', ''

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'', and '' Weathering Continent''. In addition to the soundtracks on Kaiju films and anime music, she has composed music for several video games such as '' Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf'' for

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, ''

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'' for PlayStation 2, ''

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'' for PlayStation and its PlayStation 2 sequel '' Legaia 2: Duel Saga'', ''

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'', Deemo, ''Midnight Play'' by the company ''Tivola'' based on the art illustrations of Květa Pacovská, and an orchestral arrangement of a ''Zelda'' medley for the Wii and

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game '' The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess''. She was also the composer for a Japanese stage musical adaptation of the classic Hollywood film ''

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''. Her latest work includes the composition of several music tracks for the highly acclaimed Chinese espionage thriller film '' The Message'' and a 2017 Chinese mystery thriller film ''

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''.

Biography

Graduated from

Kunitachi College of Music The is a private music conservatory in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1926 as the Tokyo Conservatory of Music, Kunitachi now offers study programs in performance, music education, composition, computer music, and musicology, for bach ...

, Department of Music Composition, Ōshima began her activities as a composer and arranger while in college, and has been involved in composing music for movies, commercials, TV programs, anime, ambient music and tunes for classical musicians. She released the first Symphony entitled “Orasho” when she was still in college. Through her masterful manipulation of both orchestras and synthesizers, she has attracted attention from various sectors for creating grandiose, dramatic sounds and beautiful melodies. Ōshima was the youngest person to be awarded the 1st prize at International Electone Festival / International Electone Concours in 1977 when she was 16 years old. Her other awards include the 52nd(1998) and 67th(2013) Mainichi Film Contest Award for Best Music, the 21st(1998), 24th(2001), 26th(2003), 27th(2004), 29th(2006), 30th(2007) and 38th(2016)

Japan Academy Prize (film award) The , often called the Japan Academy Prize, the Japan Academy Awards, and the Japanese Academy Awards, is a series of awards given annually since 1978 by the Japan Academy Film Prize Association (日本アカデミー賞協会, ''Nippon Akademii- ...

for Music, and the 31st Japan Academy Prize for Best Score,

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for Best Music in 2006, Best Composer Award at Jackson Hole Film Festival 2007(in U.S.). Moreover, Ōshima has composed a large number of music for music festivals in France and

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, stages in Belgium or concerts in Japan and U.S.A. She also recorded and conducted with orchestras and musicians from all over the world such as U.S., Australia, France, Russia, Belgium, England, Czech, Austria, Poland, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, including a concert "KAIJU CRESCENDO: AN EVENING OF JAPANESE MONSTER MUSIC" at the G-FEST XXVI (2020) in Chicago. Ōshima was one of the 27 composers for the album ‘In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores’ performed by violinist

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which was awarded a 2015

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in the Best Chamber Music category (she composed “Memories”). She has been engaged in many governmental projects as well, such as music director at “40th Year of ASEAN-Japan” in 2013, in which she supervised and managed musicians in ASEAN (

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) countries, organized concerts in ASEAN countries and composed music for the ASEAN Summit.

Awards and nominations

;Awards *2005:

Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival The , also sometimes called YIFFF, is held in a resort-like environment in the small town of Yūbari on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaidō. From 1990 to 1999, the festival was known as the Yubari International Fantastic Adventure Fil ...

Award for Composer Orchestrator *2006:

for Best Music for ''Conqueror of Shamballa'' *2008:

Japanese Academy Award The , often called the Japan Academy Prize, the Japan Academy Awards, and the Japanese Academy Awards, is a series of awards given annually since 1978 by the Japan Academy Film Prize Association (日本アカデミー賞協会, ''Nippon Akademii- ...

for Music of the Year for ''Bizan'' ;Nominations *1998:

for Outstanding Achievement in Music for '' Paradise Lost'' *2001: Japanese Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music for ''Nagasaki Burabura Bushi'' *2003: Japanese Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music for ''The Sun Also Rises'' and ''Copycat Criminal'' *2004: Japanese Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music for ''Like Asura'' *2006: Japanese Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music for ''Year One in the North'' *2007: Japanese Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music for ''

Memories of Tomorrow is a 2006 Japanese drama film starring Ken Watanabe, Higuchi Kanako and directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi. The film is based on a novel of the same title published by Hiroshi Ogiwara in 2004. Plot The film begins by showing the inevitable outcom ...

'' *2016: Japanese Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music for '' 125 Years Memory''

Compositions

Film soundtracks (selective)

* 1995: ''Winds of God'' (Yôko Narahashi) * 1998: '' Puraido: Unmei no Toki'' (

Shunya Itō is a Japanese film director known for starting the ''Sasori'' / ''Female Prisoner Scorpion'' series of 1970s exploitation films starring Meiko Kaji. Itō worked for Toei Company for most of his career. In 1972, he won a Directors Guild of Japan ...

) * 1998: ''Ohaka ga nai!'' (Takahito Hara) * 2000: '' Godzilla vs. Megaguirus'' (Masaaki Tezuka) * 2002: ''Hi wa mata noboru'' (

Kiyoshi Sasabe Kiyoshi Sasabe (佐々部清) (January 8, 1958 – March 31, 2020) was a Japanese film director. Career Born in Shimonoseki, Sasabe graduated from Meiji University before attending the Yokohama Hōsō Eiga Senmon Gakuin (now the Japan Academy of ...

) * 2002: ''Mohou-han'' (

Yoshimitsu Morita was a Japanese film director who was born in Tokyo. Career Self-taught, first making shorts on 8 mm film during the 1970s, he made his feature film debut with ''No Yōna Mono'' (''Something Like It'', 1981).Mark Schillin"Director Yoshimitsu Mo ...

) * 2002: ''

'' (Masaaki Tezuka) * 2003: '' Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.'' (Masaaki Tezuka) * 2005: '' Princess Raccoon'' (

Seijun Suzuki , born (24 May 1923 – 13 February 2017), was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predo ...

) * 2006: ''

'' (

Yukihiko Tsutsumi is a Japanese television and film director. He began directing commercials and music promotion videos as an employee of Nihon Television. After spending time abroad, he returned and started his own production company, ''Office Crescendo'', from w ...

) * 2007: '' Tsubaki Sanjûrô'' (

) * 2009: ''The Message'' * 2010: '' Ghost: Mouichido Dakishimetai'' (Tarô Ohtani) *2015: '' 125 Years Memory'' (

Mitsutoshi Tanaka is a Japanese film and commercial director. He is President and CEO of Osaka-based film production firm Creators' Union and widely known for award-winning feature films such as ''Godai - The Wunderkind'' (2020), ''125 Years Memory'' (2015), ''Bl ...

) *2017: ''

Show soundtracks (selective)

* 2004: '' Guns of the world VOL. 3''

Anime soundtracks (selective)

* 1986: '' Saint Elmo – Hikari no Raihousha'' (

Tomoharu Katsumata is a Japanese film director best known for his work on various anime works. A leading director at the Toei Animation studio during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, Katsumata worked as a director on several of Toei's anime television adaptations of ...

) * 1992: '' The Weathering Continent'' ( Koichi Mashimo) * 1993: '' Casshan: Robot Hunter'' (Hiroyuki Fukushima) * 1994: '' Lord of Lords Ryu Knight'' (Toshifumi Kawase) * 1995: ''

Legend of Crystania is a Japanese media franchise of RPGs, novels, anime and manga by Ryo Mizuno and Group SNE. The novels by Mizuno and others were published from 1993 to 2002, based on Mizuno's RPG "replays" serialized in the Japanese magazines ''Comptiq' ...

'' ( Ryutaro Nakamura) * 1996: '' Boys Over Flowers'' (Shigeyasu Yamauchi) * 1996: ''Gall Force: The Revolution'' * 1998: ''

Fancy Lala ''Fancy Lala'', known in Japan as , is a magical girl anime series produced by Studio Pierrot in 1998, following an OVA released in 1988. A two-volume manga adaptation by Rurika Kasuga ran in '' Ribon''. The original designs were created ...

'' (

Motosuke Takahashi was a Japanese anime episode and series director, animation director, animator, storyboard artist, and character designer. He died of lung cancer on November 8, 2007. Works Anime series 1960s – 1970s * ''Oraa Guzura Dado'' (1967–1968, key ...

) * 1998: ''

'' (Yuji Asada) * 1999: ''

'' (

Itsuro Kawasaki is a Japanese animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, and director from Tokyo. Works Anime television *'' Popolocrois Monogatari'' (1998–99) – Assistant Director, Episode Director *''Arc the Lad'' (1999) – Director *'' Wild Arms: Twil ...

) * 1999: ''

Magic User's Club is a magical girl/ boy anime created by Triangle Staff and Junichi Sato. It was first released as a six-part OVA in 1996 and then a 13-episode TV series in 1999, which was broadcast by WOWOW, and then by the anime television network Ani ...

'' (

Junichi Sato is a Japanese anime director, best known for working on '' shōjo''-based anime and in the magical girl genre. He was formerly associated with TYO Animations (formerly Hal Film Maker). Born in Ama, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, his first major ...

) * 2003: ''

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (2003 TV series) is a Japanese tokusatsu superhero television series based on the ''Sailor Moon'' manga created by Naoko Takeuchi. It was produced by Toei Company. ''Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon'' (commonly referred to as ''PGSM'') was first broadcast by Chubu-N ...

'' (2003 TV Series) (

Yasuko Kobayashi is a Japanese anime and tokusatsu drama screenwriter who has been involved in various television shows throughout her career, beginning in 1993 with ''Tokusou Robo Janperson''. In September 2022, Kobayashi launched a new manga series with illus ...

) * 2003: ''

'' (

Seiji Mizushima is a Japanese anime director who is known for such series as '' Shaman King'', '' Fullmetal Alchemist'', ''Mobile Suit Gundam 00'', '' Un-Go'', and ''Concrete Revolutio''. His first directorial film project, '' Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Con ...

) * 2005: '' Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa'' (Seiji Mizushima) * 2005: '' Garasu no Usagi'' (Setsuko Shibuichi) * 2006: '' Le Chevalier d'Éon'' ( Kazuhiro Furuhashi) * 2006: ''

Project Blue Earth SOS is an anime series consisting of six hour-long (with commercials) episodes. It was aired on the Japanese television network, AT-X, from July 2 to December 3, 2006. It was originally licensed by ADV Films for $180,000. In 2008, it became one o ...

'' (

Tensai Okamura , born on December 13, 1961, in Fukushima Prefecture, is a Japanese anime director and animator. Okamura grew up in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. He is a graduate of Waseda University's department of science and engineering. In 1991, he chang ...

) * 2008: '' Xam'd: Lost Memories'' (

Masayuki Miyaji , born on , is a Japanese anime director and supervisor. Biography Upon graduating from Nihon University's art department's school of film, Miyaji took part in Studio Ghibli's ''Higashi-Koganei Sonjoku'' training program in 1998. He studied unde ...

) * 2008: ''

'' ( Kunihisa Sugishima) * 2010: ''

The Tatami Galaxy is a 2004 Japanese varsity novel written by Tomihiko Morimi and published by Ohta Publishing. Its first-person narrator is an unnamed upperclassman at Kyoto University reminiscing on the misadventures of his previous years of campus lif ...

'' (

Masaaki Yuasa is a Japanese director, screenwriter, and animator affiliated with Science SARU, a Japanese animation studio which he co-founded with producer Eunyoung Choi in 2013. Yuasa previously served as president of Science SARU, but stepped down from t ...

) * 2010: ''

Sound of the Sky is a Japanese anime television series produced by A-1 Pictures and Aniplex and directed by Mamoru Kanbe. The 12-episode anime aired in Japan on the TV Tokyo television network between January 4, 2010 and March 22, 2010. The anime was also s ...

'' ( Mamoru Kanbe) * 2011: '' Tezuka Osamu no Buddha'' (Kozo Morishita) * 2012: ''

Fuse Teppō Musume no Torimonochō , also known as ''Fuse: A Gun Girl's Detective Story'' and ''Fusé: Memoirs of the Huntress'', is a 2012 Japanese animated film directed by Masayuki Miyaji based on Kazuki Sakuraba's novel ''Fusé Gansaku: Satomi Hakkenden''. Both novel and film ...

'' (Masayuki Miyaji) * 2012: ''

Blast of Tempest is a Japanese manga series written by Kyō Shirodaira and Arihide Sano, and illustrated by Ren Saizaki. It was serialized in Square Enix's ''Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' from July 2009 to March 2013, with its chapters collected in ten '' tankō ...

'' (Masahiro Andō) * 2013: ''

Little Witch Academia is a Japanese anime franchise created by Yoh Yoshinari and produced by Trigger. The original short film, directed by Yoshinari and written by Masahiko Otsuka, was released in theaters in March 2013 as part of the Young Animator Trai ...

'' ( Yoh Yoshinari) * 2013: '' Aura: Maryūinkōga Saigo no Tatakai'' (

Seiji Kishi is a Japanese director of anime. Works Anime television series *'' Yugo the Negotiator: Pakistan Chapter'' (2004) - Director *'' Ragnarok the Animation'' (2004) - Director, Storyboard *''Magikano'' (2006) - Director, Storyboard *'' Galaxy Ang ...

) * 2013: ''

Patema Inverted is a 2013 Japanese animated science fiction film written and directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura. It was released in Japan on November 9, 2013. A four-episode original net animation (ONA) series, ''Patema Inverted: Beginning of the Day'', streamed in ...

'' (

Yasuhiro Yoshiura (born 1980) is a Japanese writer and director of animated short films. Many of his works such as '' Pale Cocoon'' and ''Time of Eve'' have garnered awards and featured at film festivals. His production studio is called Studio Rikka. Biography Y ...

) * 2015: ''

Snow White with the Red Hair is a Japanese '' shōjo'' manga series written and illustrated by Sorata Akizuki. It was originally serialized in Hakusensha's bi-monthly ''shōjo'' manga magazine '' LaLa DX'' from August 2006 to August 2011, and was moved to the monthly '' ...

'' (Masahiro Andō) * 2015: '' Rokka no Yūsha'' (

Takeo Takahashi is a Japanese animator, animation director, and storyboard artist. Filmography Director Television series OVAs Films Other Television series OVAs/ONAs Films Adult Anime Notes References External links *Takeo Takahashi animeat ...

) * 2017: ''

Night Is Short, Walk On Girl is a 2017 Japanese animated romantic comedy film directed by Masaaki Yuasa. The film is based on the 2006 novel ''The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl'' written by Tomihiko Morimi and illustrated by Yusuke Nakamura, who also served as the film's o ...

'' (Masaaki Yuasa) * 2018: '' Bloom Into You'' (Makoto Katō) * 2019: '' Ride Your Wave'' (Masaaki Yuasa) * 2020: ''

Hula Fulla Dance is a Japanese anime film produced by Bandai Namco Pictures and directed by Seiji Mizushima and Shinya Watada. It premiered in Japanese theaters in December 2021. Cast Production and release The film was first revealed in November 2020 as part ...

'' (Shinya Watada) * 2020: '' Star Wars: Visions (

Studio Trigger , also known as Studio Trigger, is a Japanese animation studio founded by former Gainax employees Hiroyuki Imaishi and Masahiko Ōtsuka in 2011. It has produced anime works including '' Kill la Kill'' (2013), '' Little Witch Academia'' (short f ...

)'' * 2022: '' Tatami Time Machine Blues'' ( Shingo Natsume)

Video games soundtracks (selective)

* 1992: '' Taikou Risshiden'' * 1992: '' Undercover Cops'' (arranges) * 1998: ''Midnight Play'' (Das Mitternachtsspiel) * 1998: ''

'' * 2000: ''

'' (arranges) * 2002: ''

'' * 2002: '' Legaia 2: Duel Saga'' (with

Yasunori Mitsuda is a Japanese composer, musician, and sound producer. He is best known for his work in video games, primarily for the ''Chrono'', '' Xeno'', ''Shadow Hearts'', and ''Inazuma Eleven'' franchises, among various others. Mitsuda began composing musi ...

and

Hitoshi Sakimoto is a Japanese video game music composer and arranger. He is best known for scoring ''Final Fantasy Tactics'' and ''Final Fantasy XII'', though he has composed soundtracks for over 80 other games. He began playing music and video games in elemen ...

) * 2002: '' Suikoden'' (arranges) * 2003: '' Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits'' (arranges) * 2006: '' The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess'' (arranges) * 2019: ''Shining Nikki''

Drama soundtracks (selective)

* 2001: ''Sayonara, Ozu Sensei'' * 2002: ''

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'' * 2002: ''Satorare'' * 2003: ''Tenshi mitai'' * 2005: ''

Yume de Aimashou is a 2005 Japanese television drama In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional te ...

'' * 2006: ''Oishii Proposal'' * 2006: ''CA to Oyobi'' * 2006: '' Regatta'' * 2007: ''Hotelier'' * 2007: ''Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai'' * 2008: ''

Yasuko to Kenji is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Aruko. ''Yasuko to Kenji'' was serialized in the ''shōjo'' manga magazine ''Bessatsu Margaret'' from April 2005 to November 2006. In 2008, the series was adapted into a comedy drama wh ...

'' * 2010: ''Misaki Number One!!''

Selected concerts and projects

* 1980s: ''Symphony No.1: Orasho'' * 2005: ''For the East'' (with the Ravel Quartet) * 2006: ''London Essay'' (with Dai Kimura) * 2007: ''Le Premier amour'' (from the album "Smile" by Japanese violist Emiri Miyamoto) * 2007: ''Amanda'' (with Kaori Muraji (classical guitar) and the Orchestre des Virtuoses de Paris) * 2009: ''Concerto for saxophone'' (with Daniel Gremelle (saxophone) and the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra) * 2010: ''Concerto for viola'' (with Pierre Lenert (viola) and the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra) * 2011: ''Ganbalo Nippon'' (short film The Orchestra in Hot Air Balloon for Japan) * 2011: ''Vocalise'' (with the mezzo-soprano Irina De Baghy for Festival Sérénade in

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) * 2011: ''Requiem ~ It lies at the bottom of the sea'' (with Ensemble Lucilin in Luxembourg) * 2013: ''In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores'' (musical project with the violinist

) * 2013: ''Viola Sonata'' (with Pierre Lenert (viola) and Ariane Jacob (piano) for Festival Sérénade in Surgères in France) * 2013: ''Concerto for piano quartet with Orchestra'' (with Musicians of

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and the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra) *2013: ''The ASEAN-JAPAN "Drums & Voices" Concert Tour'' (the 40th year of ASEAN-Japan friendship and cooperation project) * 2015: ''Symphony No.2: Since 1945'' (with the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra and Hiroko Kokubu (piano)) * 2017: ''Symphonic Suite "Sama"'' (with the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra) *2017: ''Suite for Male Voice Choir "Message of the Voice"'' (with the Glee club of Tokyo Keizai University) * 2018: ''"Augustus": Suite for Orchestra and Chorus'' (with the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra and the Osaka Prefectural Yuhigaoka High School Music Department) * 2018: ''Jin'' & ''Rin'': 2 Rhapsodies for Clarinet, Marimba and Orchestra (with

Richard Stoltzman Richard Leslie Stoltzman (born July 12, 1942) is an American clarinetist. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he spent his early years in San Francisco, California, and Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from Woodward High School in 1960. Today, Stoltzman is part ...

(clarinet), Mika Stoltzman (marimba) and the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra) * 2018: Concerto for Koto and Shakuhachi (with Chiaki Endo (koto), Dozan Fujiwara (shakuhachi) and the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra) * 2018: Musical ''Sanza and Okuni'' *2020: ''Godzilla in Chicago - C.H.C.A.G'' *2020: ''Beyond the Point of No Return'' (with Japan Philharmonic Orchestra) * 2020: Koto recital ''Lacrima'' (with Chiaki Endo (koto)) * 2021: Concerto No.2 for Koto and Shakuhachi ''Seasons12'' (with Chiaki Endo (koto), Dozan Fujiwara (shakuhachi) and the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra)

References

External links

Official homepage
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Discography at VGMdb
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Artist profile
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