is the soundtrack album to the 1988 anime film Akira by Japanese musical collective Geinoh Yamashirogumi, released by Invitation on July 27, 1988. The music was composed and conducted by musical director Shoji Yamashiro. The soundtrack draws heavily from Japanese noh, Buddhist chants, and traditional Indonesian gamelan music.
A CD single titled was released on July 16, 1988. The title track is a medley of "Kaneda" and "Battle Against Clown", while uses sections of "Mutation" and "Exodus from the Underground Fortress".
The album was first released in North America by JVC in 1990 as Akira: Original Soundtrack. It was reissued in 2000 by AnimeTrax and in 2004 by Geneon. The album was re-released by Milan Records as Akira: Symphonic Suite on September 15, 2017.
Track listing CD version
DVD-Audio version
LP version Original Victor release
2017 Milan Records release
Personnel Additional musicians Tsuyoshi Kon – guitar Tokihiko Morishita – keyboard Tadashi Namba – keyboard Nobu Saitō – percussion Hideo Yamaki – drums Yukihiro Issoh – noh (fuekata) Junzō Miyamasu – noh (tsuzumikata) Nobuyuki Shirasaka – noh (ōkawakata) Masamichi Yamazaki – noh (shitekata) Kiyoshi Yoshitani – noh (taikokata) Ida Bagus Sugata – Balinese tantra Kunihiko Tominaga – synthesizer programming Kenji Niina – synthesizer programming
Akira: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Akira: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is an alternate version of Symphonic Suite Akira, released by Victor Entertainment on October 10, 1988. It features the film score mixed with dialogue from the film.
The album was released in the United Kingdom by Demon Soundtracks as Akira: The Original Japanese Soundtrack in 1994.
Track listing
Cast Mitsuo Iwata as Shōtarō Kaneda Nozomu Sasaki as Tetsuo Shima Mami Koyama as Kei Tarō Ishida as Colonel Shikishima Kazuhiro Shindō as Masaru (No. 27) Tatsuhiko Nakamura as Takashi (No. 26) Fukue Itō as Kiyoko (No. 25) Tesshō Genda as Ryūsaku (Ryu) Yuriko Fuchizaki as Kaori Masaaki Ōkura as Yamagata Takeshi Kusao as Kai Masato Hirano as Terrorist Tarō Arakawa as Eiichi Watanabe Masami Toyoshima as a Groupie Mizuho Suzuki as Doctor Ōnishi
Akira Remix
Akira Remix is a remix album based on Symphonic Suite Akira, released by Victor Entertainment on CD and digital platforms on August 21, 2024, and on LP on March 26, 2025. Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo served as the two-disc album's executive producer and selected three musicians for this project. Makoto Kubota (of Makoto Kubota & the Sunset Gang and Les Rallizes Dénudés) remixed the 13 tracks on the first disc, while Pizzicato Five founder Yasuharu Konishi and anime score composer Kuniaki Haishima each remixed three tracks on the second disc.
The album peaked at No. 18 on Oricon's Weekly Albums chart and No. 19 on Billboard Japans Hot Albums chart.
Track listing
Personnel Additional musicians Takashi Mizutani – guitar (disc 1 track 1) Daichi Itō – drums (disc 1 track 1) Yukihiro Fukutomi – programming (disc 2 tracks 1–3) Ryusuke Kakizawa – drums, pandeiro (disc 2 tracks 1–3)
Charts Chart (2024) Peak position Oricon Japanese Albums 18 Billboard Japan Hot Albums 19 Billboard Japan Top Download Albums 22 Billboard Japan Top Album Sales 18
See also 1988 in Japanese music
Footnotes
References
External links Symphonic Suite Akira
Akira: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Akira Remix