大谷幸
(Kow Otani)
Kō Otani, born 大谷 幸 on 1 May 1957 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese composer known
professionally as Kow Otani whose work spans film, television, and video game
soundtracks. After completing his university education, he joined Yuji Saito’s
music production company Imagine in November 1986, where he began collaborating
with composers such as Kohei Tanaka, Shiro Hamaguchi, Hayato Matsuo, and Shinji
Miyazaki, all of whom would later become prominent figures in cinematic scoring.
Otani’s first major breakthrough came in 1987 with his score for the anime
adaptation City Hunter, which est...
