Japanese composer based in Los Angeles. Having graduated from Senzoku Gakuen College of Music in Japan, Yutaka studied musical composition under Toshiyuki Watanabe and Masataka Matsuo. In 2009, he won the first prize at VIENNA INSTRUMENTS Strings Arrangement Contest.

During his career of more than 7 years, he has written scores for over 40 projects, including a Japanese TV animation “Tokyo Ghoul”, a Japanese movie “Death Note:Light Up the New World” and a number of TV commercials such as “Audi”, “Samsung Galaxy” and “Coca-Cola”.

His masterpiece, a Japanese TV animation “Tokyo Ghoul” was broadcasted internationally since its first release in 2014. The original soundtrack, which includes the main theme song “Glassy Sky (sung by Donna Burke)”, has over 50 million views on Youtube.

In 2017, Yutaka is represented by Soundtrack Music Associates and relocated his production base from Tokyo to Sonic Fuel Studios in Los Angeles.

In 2018, Eminem sampled Yutaka's master piece “Glassy Sky” on his song "Good Guy" in his "Kamikaze" album.

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米国ロサンゼルスを拠点とする作曲家。洗足学園音楽大学、音楽・音響デザインコース卒業。在学中は渡辺俊幸、松尾祐孝に師事。 2009年、VIENNA INSTRUMENTS ストリングス・アレンジ・コンテストにおいて最優秀賞を受賞。
2011年、フジテレビ系ドラマ『マルモのおきて』にてデビュー。その後CMや映画にも活躍の場を広げ、TVアニメ『東京喰種トーキョーグール』シリーズ、映画『デスノート Light up the NEW world』『いぬやしき』『BLEACH』等を手がける。2018年、自身初の海外作品となる中国映画『Cry Me a Sad River（悲伤逆流成河）』を担当。また、Eminemにより、TVアニメ東京喰種挿入歌『Glassy Sky』が『Good Guy』（アルバム『Kamikaze』収録曲）にサンプリングされる。