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Hidenori Shoji

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Hidenori Shoji
庄司 英徳
Born (1975-01-07) January 7, 1975 (age 49)[1]
Occupations
  • Composer
  • musician
Years active1996–present
EmployerSega
Musical career
GenresVideo game music
InstrumentGuitar

Hidenori Shoji (庄司 英徳, Shōji Hidenori) is a Japanese video game composer who has contributed to such Sega titles as Fighting Vipers 2 (1998) and F-Zero GX (2003). He is best known for his work as the music director of the Yakuza series and its Judgment spin-off series. He is a member of H., a band composed of Sega sound designers.[1]

Live performances

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Shoji performed two songs from the Yakuza series at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show.[2] Together with H., he performed several rock arrangements of Out Run and Fantasy Zone themes at music event in October 2008.[3]

Discography

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List of video game music production credits
Year Title Notes Ref.
1996 Virtua Fighter 3 With Takenobu Mitsuyoshi and Fumio Ito
Sega Touring Car Championship
1997 Digital Dance Mix Vol. 1 Namie Amuro
1998 Fighting Vipers 2
SpikeOut With Shunsuke Suzuki
2000 SlashOut
2001 Spikers Battle
Super Monkey Ball With Haruyoshi Tomita and Sakae Osumi
2002 Super Monkey Ball 2 With Haruyoshi Tomita
2003 F-Zero GX With Daiki Kasho
2005 Yakuza Sound director.
2006 Yakuza 2 With Hideki Sakamoto, Norihiko Hibino, and Takahiro Izutani
2008 Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan! With Hideki Sakamoto, Hiroyoshi Kato, and Keisuke Ito
2009 Yakuza 3
2010 Yakuza 4
Kurohyo: Ryu ga Gotoku Shinsho
2012 Binary Domain Sound director
Yakuza 5
2013 Code of Joker "Electronic Brain"
2014 Like a Dragon: Ishin!
2015 Yakuza 0
2016 Yakuza Kiwami
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
2017 Yakuza Kiwami 2 Music director
2018 Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise Music director
Judgment Music director
2019 Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD Music with Chihiro Aoki and Yuri Fukuda
2020 Yakuza: Like a Dragon Music director
2021 Lost Judgment Music director
Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania
2023 404 Game Re:set "Re;sistant"
Sonic Superstars "Speed Jungle Zone Act 2"
2024 Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth


References

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  1. ^ a b Teioh (November 3, 2007). "Hidenori Shoji - VGMdb". VGMdb. Retrieved November 12, 2008.
  2. ^ "TOKYO GAME SHOW 2008 SEGA OFFICIAL SITE". Archived from the original on October 30, 2008. Retrieved November 12, 2008.
  3. ^ "EXTRA - HYPER GAME MUSIC EVENT 2008". Retrieved November 12, 2008.
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