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Tomohide Harada

Birth : 1970-06-30, Tokyo, Japan

History

Composer, Arranger, Bassist, Multiple instruments’ player Born in Tokyo 1970, Tomohide Harada started playing Japanese flute from 6 years old. Love for African-American music inspired him to pick up bass guitar, played in bands as a bassist when he was in high school, and the experience gradually nurtured him for the interest for composing music. Work of Jerry Goldsmith and Brad Fiedel influenced Harada to compose music using computer, he learned musical composition on his own. Harada was involved in composing the soundtrack for his first animation film “8MAN After (1993)”. It kicked him off in full as a music composer. Harada’s work involves providing music not only for films and TV dramas but also to artists. He also produces and creates music for TV commercials. Harada works as an artist as well, he released analogue record “FreeDee(2003)” with the name of NanoWatts, it received attention in and out of Japan’s club music chart. Harada is known for the music he composed for the feature film “Ai no Mukidashi (Love Exposure) 2008”, TV drama “Strangers6 (2012)” and “Minna! Esper dayo! (2013) “ Harada’s musical style is wide ranged and versatile, he offers the music from that of traditional Japanese reflecting from being a Japanese traditional instruments player, to pops music, to Nordic folk and orchestral music, covering multiple musical genres. He composes using computer and live performance and his skill in mixing both is highly valued.

Movies

Detective Story

Detective Story

Original Music Composer

Shuichi Tsujiyama (Takumi Saito) is a broke private investigator. While on a job assignment, he is about to catch a crucial moment by taking a picture, but Naomi Arai (Fumi Nikaido) misunderstands the situation. Shuichi Tsujiyama and Naomi Arai struggle physically. Because of this, Shuichi Tsujiyama misses his crucial photo opportunity. Kimie Hasenuma (Mari Natsuki) is a housekeeper who has been employed by Naomi Arai for many years. Kimie Hasenuma asks Shuichi Tsujiyama to be Naomi Arai’s bodyguard.

The Limit of Sleeping Beauty

The Limit of Sleeping Beauty

Musician

Aki is an unsuccessful 29-year-old actress who eventually became a magician's assistant. While pretending to be hypnotised on the stage, Aki finds the boundary between reality and illusion becoming increasingly vague. For Aki, the only beautiful memory she has was the time spent with her lover Kaito.

The Limit of Sleeping Beauty

The Limit of Sleeping Beauty

Music

Aki is an unsuccessful 29-year-old actress who eventually became a magician's assistant. While pretending to be hypnotised on the stage, Aki finds the boundary between reality and illusion becoming increasingly vague. For Aki, the only beautiful memory she has was the time spent with her lover Kaito.

The Extremists' Opera

The Extremists' Opera

Music

When theater director Naoko (Saori) holds auditions for the first production of her newly established all-female theater troupe, she is mesmerized by Haru (Arisa Nakamura), who barges into the old garage where they rehearse. Naoko chooses Haru to be the lead as she leverages her power as director to pursue the romantic connection that fuels her voracious creativity. However, as opening night approaches, jealous entanglements threaten the artistic and ideological aims of the project, as well as the relationship with Haru pulling Naoko from her womanizing ways. Based on her own semi-autobiographical novel Kokan, cult theater director and actress Junko Emoto makes her directorial debut in this playful drama relishing the toil and passion of a struggling creative life on and off stage. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

The Virgin Psychics

The Virgin Psychics

Original Music Composer

After receiving a cosmic blast while masturbating, a virginal teenager gains psychic powers and joins a group of ESP virgins in order to defend the world from evil psychics.

All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City

All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City

Music

High school student Yoshio Kamogawa suddenly gained the power to read other people's minds. One day, he receives mail from Sae Asami in Tokyo asking for his help. Yoshio Kamogawa loves Sae Asami. Yoshio Kamogawa goes to Tokyo and infiltrates the high school where Sae Aami attends. Yoshio Kamogawa then becomes involved in a strife between 3 different groups as he tries to save Sae Asami. Shizuka Tachibana also falls in love with Yoshio Kamogawa.

Hoshi Shin'ichi Mystery Special

Hoshi Shin'ichi Mystery Special

Music

A collection of five short stories by Hoshi Shinichi

Music

After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.

Original Music Composer

Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto soon become friendly. However Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face.

Be Sure to Share

Be Sure to Share

Original Music Composer

Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it's too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble Shiro faced connecting to his strict father who was also his teacher and soccer coach. With a consuming secret of his own, Shiro, now in his late twenties and about to get engaged, must eventually learn how to share the pain of it with his loved ones.

Original Music Composer

The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.

Original Music Composer

Shin is a Japanese university student living a boring and meaningless life. One day, he spots a book titled Dangerous Ways to Walk the World, in which he finds a page written about hazards in New-York. Eager to get out, he jets off to New-York to find this inspiration.

Meatball Machine

Meatball Machine

Music

Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes, it s also a human love story, even though the budding romantics are infested with slimy, tumor-like globules.