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.
Live performances Shoji performed two songs from the Yakuza series at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show. Together with H., he performed several rock arrangements of Out Run and Fantasy Zone themes at music event in October 2008.
Discography + List of video game music production creditsYearTitle Notes 1996Virtua Fighter 3With Takenobu Mitsuyoshi and Fumio ItoSega Touring Car Championship 1997Digital Dance Mix Vol. 1 Namie Amuro 1998Fighting Vipers 2SpikeOut With Shunsuke Suzuki 2000SlashOut 2001Spikers BattleSuper Monkey Ball With Haruyoshi Tomita and Sakae Osumi 2002Super Monkey Ball 2 With Haruyoshi Tomita 2003F-Zero GX With Daiki Kasho 2005Yakuza Sound director. 2006Yakuza 2 With Hideki Sakamoto, Norihiko Hibino, and Takahiro Izutani 2008Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan! With Hideki Sakamoto, Hiroyoshi Kato, and Keisuke Ito 2009Yakuza 3 2010Yakuza 4Kurohyo: Ryu ga Gotoku Shinsho 2012Binary Domain Sound directorYakuza 5 2013Code of Joker"Electronic Brain" 2014Like a Dragon: Ishin! 2015Yakuza 0 2016Yakuza KiwamiYakuza 6: The Song of Life 2017Yakuza Kiwami 2 Music director 2018Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise Music directorJudgment Music director 2019Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD Music with Chihiro Aoki and Yuri Fukuda 2020Yakuza: Like a DragonMusic director 2021Lost JudgmentMusic directorSuper Monkey Ball Banana Mania2023404 Game Re:set"Re;sistant"Sonic Superstars "Speed Jungle Zone Act 2" 2024Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth2026Sega Football Club Champions
References
External links Siliconera Interview with Hidenori Shoji