Hidenori Shoji

Hidenori Shoji
庄司 英徳
Born	(1975-01-07) January 7, 1975 (age 49)[1] Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Occupations	Composer musician
Years active	1996–present
Employer	Sega
Musical career
Genres	Video game music
Instrument	Guitar

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

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

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

1. 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.

External links

• Siliconera Interview with Hidenori Shoji