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Michiru Yamane
Michiru Yamane
Japanese game composer
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Hiroyuki Iwatsuki
Hiroyuki Iwatsuki
Japanese video game music composer
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Jake Kaufman
Jake Kaufman
American composer
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Konami Kukeiha Club
Konami Kukeiha Club
Konami's sound team. It is often confused with Kukeiha Club
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Yoshino Aoki
Yoshino Aoki
Japanese composer
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Kenichiro Fukui
Kenichiro Fukui
Japanese composer and musician
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Akira Yamaoka
Akira Yamaoka
Japanese composer
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Kumi Tanioka
Kumi Tanioka
Japanese composer
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Rika Muranaka
Rika Muranaka
Japanese composer
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Masayoshi Soken
Masayoshi Soken
Japanese composer
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Tsuyoshi Sekito
Tsuyoshi Sekito
Japanese composer
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Yuzo Koshiro
Yuzo Koshiro
Japanese video game music composer, electronic music producer, and audio programmer
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Yoko Shimomura
Yoko Shimomura
Japanese composer and pianist
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Aki Hata
Aki Hata
Japanese musician and lyricist
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Junya Nakano
Junya Nakano
Japanese composer
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Noriko Matsueda
Noriko Matsueda
Japanese composer
Kinuyo Yamashita
Japanese video game composer

Kinuyo Yamashita

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Japanese video game composer

Kinuyo Yamashita (山下 絹代, Yamashita Kinuyo) is a Japanese video game music composer and sound producer. Her best known soundtrack is Konami's Castlevania, which was also her debut work. She was credited under the pseudonym James Banana for her work on the Nintendo Entertainment System version of the game. This pseudonym was a pun of the name James Bernard, the film composer of the 1958 film Dracula.