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Kenji Kawai

1957 - Today

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Kenji Kawai (川井 憲次, Kawai Kenji, born April 23, 1957) is a Japanese music composer and arranger. Known as one of the biggest names in the soundtrack world, he has worked on a wide range of mixed media productions, including anime, TV shows, films and video games. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenji Kawai has received more than 490,301 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Kenji Kawai is the 939th most popular composer (down from 904th in 2019), the 947th most popular biography from Japan (down from 927th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Composer.

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  • 490k

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  • 50.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Kenji Kawai ranks 939 out of 1,216. Before him are Johann Joseph Abert, André Gedalge, Nannette Streicher, Girolamo Diruta, Sándor Végh, and Egberto Gismonti. After him are Sándor Veress, Ester Mägi, Ary Barroso, Myroslav Skoryk, Daniel Alomía Robles, and W. C. Handy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Kenji Kawai ranks 142. Before him are Juan Luis Guerra, Amanda Plummer, Laura Innes, Bruce Rauner, Tsai Ming-liang, and Duško Ivanović. After him are Mikhail Pletnev, Tan Dun, Tignous, Martin Donovan, Kumar Sanu, and Nikos Galis.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kenji Kawai ranks 947 out of 6,048. Before him are Unkei (1151), Kanō Motonobu (1476), Katsukawa Shunshō (1726), Megumi Hayashibara (1967), Sekiryo Kaneda (1901), and Shinji Kagawa (1989). After him are Peter Shirayanagi (1928), Sion Sono (1961), Koichi Tanaka (1959), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), and Ichiro Suzuki (1973).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Kenji Kawai ranks 9. Before him are Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Ichirou Mizuki (1948), Miki Matsubara (1959), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Keiko Abe (1937), and Nobuo Uematsu (1959). After him are Akira Ifukube (1914), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), Koji Kondo (1961), and Akira Yamaoka (1968).

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