Akira Kosemura

This is I (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film)

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Scheduled for release on Feb 25. Now available for pre-order.

The original soundtrack for the Netflix film “This Is I” with music composed by Akira Kosemura, will be released."This Is I" is a story about the irreplaceable trust and bond between two individuals, Ai who dreams of ‘becoming an idol!’ and Dr. Wada who carries his own emotional scar, as they fight their own way through a journey this is sometimes cheerful and sometimes brutal.The moving true story of Ai, who struggles with the question "who am i” since childhood and suffered from the cold eyes of public but never gave up on the dream of becoming an idol, and Dr. Wada, the pioneer who opened the door to gender affirming surgery which was still considered a social taboo at the time, is vividly brought to life as a Netflix film.Akira Kosemura composed 25 new modern-classical pieces featuring piano and orchestral instruments.  His music gently resonates with the two characters' emotions, embracing their solitude while lighting a path toward hope.In contrast to the vibrant musical scenes with the hits from the '80s through the 2000s, the film score with meticulously crafted notes that resonate deep within the soul, tenderly enveloping the story of two characters.The lead role is played by Haruki Mochizuki, an 18-year-old rising star selected through auditions. She brings an unprecedented spark to the film as a “icon of a new generation.”  Meanwhile, a real-life doctor Koji Wada who brings about a major turning point for Ai is played by the versatile and acclaimed actor Takumi Saitoh, known for his passionate presence across diverse genres.This film was made based on the book “Wonderful, This Life” written by Haruna Ai, who took the world by storm with her lip-syncing impersonation of ‘Air Ayaya’, and “Penis Cutter: The Story of the Doctor Who Saved Gender Dysphoria" written by Wada Koji and Fukamachi Kimiko, and produced by Osamu Suzuki and directed by Yusaku Matsumoto known for film such as ‘Winny'.The Netflix film “This Is I” will be available for exclusive worldwide streaming starting February 10, 2026.

作曲・編曲・演奏：小瀬村 晶

音楽制作マネージメント：菊地 慎

レコーディング＆ミキシングエンジニア：檜谷 瞬六

アシスタントレコーディングエンジニア：長瀬 優実　齋藤 一大　鈴木 健太

マスタリングエンジニア：Lawrence English

レコーディングスタジオ：Studio Tanta & Schole Tokyo

ミキシングスタジオ：54it

マスタリングスタジオ：Negative Space

音楽制作：SCHOLE

音楽制作アシスタント：栗山 晃一　栗原 悠希


Piano　佐藤 浩一
Acoustic Guitar　石成 正人
Flute　羽鳥 美紗紀
Clarinet　黒川 紗恵子
Chorus　Jun Futamata

Strings Ensemble team 我流
1st Violin　﨑谷 直人
2nd Violin　金子 昌憲
Viola　飯野 和英
Cello　グレイ 理沙
Contrabass　高杉 健人

℗© 2026 Netflix Music, LLC distributed by Schole Records. NETFLIX and related artwork: © 2026 Netflix. Used with permission.

ONE OF THE MOST STREAMED ASIAN CLASSICAL ARTISTS

When Akira Kosemura started making music, it was a kind of therapy during his difficult time in his early 20s. He carried an audio recorder to capture the soundscape he encountered, and those field recordings inspired him to create music with his piano. “My original reason for making it, after all, was to heal myself, a kind of rehabilitation technique and it is still part of my everyday life, or perhaps an extension of it. It’s like breathing for me” he recalls.

Since his record debut in 2007, Kosemura’s compositions have been reflecting his inner voice, and drawing various images silently and beautifully – from quiet nights, four seasons, to some stories about unknown people in unknown world. He garnered attention worldwide, collaborated with notable musicians such as John Legend and Devendra Banhart, and created scores for films/TV drama/video games like the Cannes featured film True Mothers (2020), Hollywood produced drama series Love Is__ (2018), the Nintendo Switch game Jack Jeanne (2021), TV anime Honey Lemon Soda (2025), and so many others. Completely self-taught composer/pianist has become one of the most streamed Asian classical artists, has signed Decca Records/Universal Music in 2022, and released diverse records including his renowned solo piano album, SEASONS (2023).

Now in 2025, Kosemura looks at a new direction. MIRAI (means “future” in Japanese) is his first-ever vocal project album featuring 7 notable singers – Devendra Banhart, Mr Hudson, Baths, Benjamin Gustafsson, Saro, Tom Adams, and Miyuki Hatakeyama.

“I came up with this project as I felt a sense of division during the COVID pandemic” says Kosemura. As a father raising his son, his focus on making music has been shifted from his inner voices to the message for next generations, and he decided to set the concept of this record to describe the future from his personal perspective with music, for future era.

Based on his background and experiences as a Japanese and composer, MIRAI unites various elements from Asian traditional instruments, film soundtrack to post-rock, neo-classical and electronica, in his one-of-a-kind musicality and several languages, just like post-war Japanese culture developed uniquely with the influence from western countries. The result is so colorful – we can hear the influences from post-rock such as Mogwai and Sigur Ros on ‘Atlas’ featuring Tom Adams, see ambient worlds featuring field recordings of songs of Nagas in Myanmar on ‘SECAI’ and ‘Lore’, and feel gentle winds in the mountains on ‘Autumn Moon’ featuring Miyuki Hatakeyama, which lyrics are cited from Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets.

Says Kosemura, “It was a great time for me to be able to bring out the various musical elements that influenced me from my young age to the present and incorporate them one by one into the album. We would travel diverse worlds through the record, and it ends with utopian Japanese music. I wrote the last track ‘Ongaku’ with the image of a Japanese festival that doesn’t actually exist. The ending of the song is also a little fantastical, with the sound flying off somewhere, as it is intended to be listened to again by going back to the first song.”

“This is very different to SEASONS. This looks at the world from a very different perspective” says the composer. Featuring various instruments such as dilruba, erhu, shakuhachi, koto, shamisen and many others, MIRAI is his phantasmal statement for the future, as well as his journey to the utopia of music.

“It feels impossible to get tired of, circumscribed and boundless at once.”
by Pitchfork

“Fantastic stuff.”
by Gilles Peterson

“Peaceful, evocative music”
by Fact Magazine