Yoko Kanno Trailers
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Yoko Kanno (菅野 よう子, Kanno Yōko, born March 18, 1963) is a Japanese composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks of anime films, television series, live-action films, video games, and advertisements. She was born in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop and its live-action adaptation, Darker than Black, Macross Plus, Turn A Gundam, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Kids on the Slope, Genesis of Aquarion and Terror in Resonance, and has worked with the directors Hirokazu Kore-eda, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichirō Watanabe and Shōji Kawamori. Kanno has also composed music for pop artists Maaya Sakamoto and Kyōko Koizumi. She is also a keyboardist, and is the frontwoman for the Seatbelts, who perform many of Kanno's compositions and soundtracks.
Most Popular Yoko Kanno Trailers
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27 January 2006
The year is 2030. Six months passed since the Laughing Man Incident was solved. About 3 million refugees are living in Japan, invited to fill the labor shortage.
23 September 2005
The year is 2030 and six years have passed since a criminal known only as "The Laughing Man" swept through top medical nanotechnology firms committing acts of cyber-terrorism, kidnapping, and espionage leaving no known suspects.
24 June 2000
Gaea is a mythical realm ruled by sword and sorcery and immersed in blood and violence. Thrust into a conflict she doesn't quite understand, Hitomi Kanzaki helps aid the young Prince Van as they embark upon a journey to fight the Black Dragon Clan.
12 December 2012
When three bounty hunters accidentally meet in a bar, their stark personalities begin to clash, turning into a three way gun fight.
07 July 2007
The seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration.
23 December 1995
In this anime anthology, a salvage ship crew happens upon a haunted vessel in "Magnetic Rose"; a cold tablet turns a lab worker into a biological weapon in "Stink Bomb"; and an urban populace carries on an endless war with an unseen foe in "Cannon Fodder.
05 April 2007
A middle-aged gangster's lifetime of mistakes catch up with him as his personal and professional life is destroyed.
06 October 1995
Three decades after the great war between the humans and the Zentradi, the U.N. government is developing new technologies to use in their transforming fighter aircraft by running tests on the colony planet Eden.
29 May 2004
Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France.
02 June 2007
"Say Hello for Me" is a love story and talks about three people's childhood friendship and their reunion after 15 years of separation.
07 August 2004
Nishi is a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.
16 April 2005
Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought.
17 December 1993
Alice is a Japanese schoolgirl who has never thought much about the past... that is, until her classmates, Jinpachi and Issei, tell her that they've been sharing the same vivid dreams ever since they were in junior high school.
07 July 2007
"What if we just forget about today or the future" A phrase that gives start to a small adventure of two young students, to go anywhere they can in just that one day, to live what they want or just can, to reach the longest distance with only the money in their pockets, to enjoy that day without caring about the rest, just be toghether.
01 September 2001
The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued the largest bounty in history, for the capture of whoever is behind it.
13 June 2015
Three sisters live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father – absent from the family home for the last 15 years – dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral, and meet their shy teenage half-sister.
22 November 1997
When a rogue science experiment starts filling the world with crystallized Noise, a group of rebels strike back to reunite the world with its Music.
17 November 1999
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining.
26 October 2002
Six women attempt to make it in current day Tokyo, living their everyday lives the best and worst they can.
22 July 2006
Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery.
01 September 2007
The story takes place in the year 2034, two years after the events in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG.
24 February 2004
Memories (1995) making-of featurette, includes introductions to the creative genius behind the shows and looks at Otomo’s previous works, such as Akira.
04 July 2014
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her.
20 November 1998
A droll and formalistic comic drama about the various relationships among, and odd obsessions of, the residents of a Tokyo apartment block.
19 April 2013
Long-time friends Jinko and Motoko hear that their college friend Miki has jumped into the ocean. They are joined by Haraki, who Jinko happens to meet, and head by car on a journey to see Miki.
09 November 2002
Ryo personifies water, since whenever something important happens in her life, it rains. She inherits a bathhouse and meets a pyromaniac named Yusaku.
16 February 2017
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the "Sangokushi" series, a concert was held at MUZA Kawasaki Symphony Hall on Saturday, April 16, 2016.
21 August 2009
The story of "Ring of Gundam" takes place in a new era long after the events of the first Mobile Suit Gundam series' One-Year War.
21 November 2009
Half retelling of the original Frontier series, half new story. Conspiracies arise within the Frontier government when Sheryl Nome arrives to the colonial fleet for her concert and is soon marked as a spy for Galaxy while childhood friends, Alto Saotome and Ranka Lee both try to achieve their dreams as the battle between Frontier and the Vajra draws closer.
26 February 2011
Picking up from where the previous movie left off, Ranka's star career flourishes while Sheryl's health rapidly deteriorates after collapsing during a live performance.
11 August 2010
For her 15th debut anniversary and birthday, Sakamoto Maaya made an amazing concert in Budokan (Tokyo) with a selection of all her best songs!
21 December 2012
A Corgi can certainly dream. Taking a break from the frequent antics his colleagues get him into, Bebop crew mate Ein envisions himself sipping a tropical beverage on the beach side and scuba diving with Edward amid a barrier reef.
10 February 2002
Following the events of the first movie, the Militia finishes restoration work on its excavated spaceship and travels to the moon to deal with Gym Ghingnham and Agrippa Maintainer, who along with Dianna Soreil form a governing triumvirate over the Moonrace.
27 November 2009
In November 2008, a live concert of Macross Frontier's music was performed by May'n, Megumi Nakajima, and Yoko Kanno.
01 January 2001
The Seatbelts is a Japanese blues/jazz band led by composer and instrumentalist Yoko Kanno. The band performed the whole soundtrack of the anime series Cowboy Bebop and produced a total of seven albums and one live DVD.
18 June 2009
Everyone in Japan knows his work, yet few recognize his face. Chris Mosdell, British expatriate, pop lyricist, poet and visual artist, during his 30-year residence in Tokyo has written chart-topping hits with some of Japan's most influential musicians and composers, penned lyrics to anime film scores, and run with the multimedia underground of that city's avant-garde.
07 November 2001
Short film and live concert "Future Blues" by Katsu Nagaishi with music by Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts.
08 June 1996
Hidemi is bored of school, and decides to find another way to succeed in life.
17 March 1997
Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar.
09 February 2002
Loran Cehack is a spy sent from the moon to scout out Earth, whom they plan to invade. He grows to love Earth as his true home and, after discovering a giant mech from the dark ages, he begins to defend Earth in the war.
17 July 2010
Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spend their free time practicing for their school's upcoming festival.
25 February 2006
Two youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically, their love still remains.
21 September 2007
This movie is an alternative version of the TV series; it is composed of the two 2007 OVAs, edited to improve the pacing of the plot, and an extra segment akin to a TV episode where the cast are given the task of studying flowers.
15 September 2008
A lonely character, his pains, his happiness, the vociferations of his soul. A visual poetry running through one’s inner world, to finally get through the limits, into a new dimension.
