Kenji Kawai is a veteran Japanese film composer whose score work extends to the live-action Death Note films, alongside a long list of anime, tokusatsu, and live-action credits.
Yutaka Yamada, born in 1989, composes and arranges music from his base in Los Angeles and holds a credit on the Death Note franchise, though he is much better known for scoring Tokyo Ghoul and Vinland Saga.
Atticus Ross is an English composer and Nine Inch Nails member who, with his brother Leopold Ross, wrote the score for Netflix's 2017 live-action Death Note film.
Hideki Taniuchi is a Japanese composer who co-wrote the score for the Death Note anime, produced by Madhouse, alongside Yoshihisa Hirano.
Leopold Ross is an English composer and record producer who co-wrote the score for Netflix's 2017 live-action Death Note film with his brother Atticus Ross.
Japanese composer Yoshihisa Hirano wrote the score for the Death Note anime, one credit within a career that also includes Hunter x Hunter (2011) and Hajime no Ippo.
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