Tenmon (composer)

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Tenmon (天門, Tenmon^?) (literally: gates of Heaven), born Atsushi Shirakawa (白川 篤史, Shirakawa Atsushi^?), is a Japanese music composer from Tokyo, Japan born in 1971. He worked in the Nihon Falcom Corporation as one of the members of Falcom Sound Team J.D.K.. During his time with Falcom, he has composed many music for Falcom games, most notably Brandish.

Having known Makoto Shinkai as a coworker in Minori he has composed music for Shinkai's works since She and Her Cat. He is perhaps best known for creating the soundtracks for Shinkai's subsequent works, Voices of a Distant Star and The Place Promised in Our Early Days.

[edit] Works

Tenmon has composed the soundtrack for:

• She and Her Cat (1999)
• Voices of a Distant Star (2001)
• Mizu no Kakera (2001)
• Tenshi no Kakera (2003)
• Haru no Ashioto (2004)
• The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)
• Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two. (2006)
• Byōsoku 5 Centimetre (2007)
• Ef: A Tale of Memories. (2007)

[edit] Links

• (Japanese) Tenmon's official website
• Tenmon at the Internet Movie Database