Naoki Yamauchi(II)
- Music Department
- Composer
Naoki Yamauchi is an innovator of music supervisor in Japanese TV drama scene, known for Fuzoroi no ringotachi (1983), Daddy, the Newscaster (1987), Hyaku-nen no monogatari (2001) and Song of the Canefields (2003).
He was born in 1953 in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. He attended college and started selecting music for short films as a part-time job. After graduating from college, he officially joined Tokyo BGM, the music publishing company in 1976, and was primarily in charge of recorded movies, commercials, and animation as music supervisor. The following year, in 1977, he was in charge of TV drama at the recommendation of Chûji Kinoshita, a composer known for The Garden of Women (1954), Somewhere Under the Broad Sky (1954) and Mito Kômon (1969). In his first work, TBS "Oh! Hibari" of Keisuke Kinoshita, a famed director known for Twenty-Four Eyes (1954), The Ballad of Narayama (1958) and The Garden of Women (1954), Naoki directed the music in this drama with all ready-made songs, without using this original soundtrack.
After that, he was credited as a music supervisor since the 1978 works "Yah Kamome", "Ahiru Daigasshou" and "Otokonara!" and launched his career mainly in a TBS drama.
Around this time, he also studied copyright business at a music publisher. After leaving Tokyo BGM in 1985 and working on the front lines as a freelancer, in 1988 he has established NSL, which specializes in selecting music for TV programs. At the same time, he was appointed as the manager of the Sounds Livery division of Nichion, a music publishing company under TBS (Japanese Broadcasting System), which mainly imports production music overseas, and he is involved as a senior advisor at this division.
In 2002 he was awarded the ATP Individual Award, which is given by Association of All Japan TV Program Production Companies, for being recognized for his achievement in the Japanese TV drama scene.
Also until the present, as a corporation, NSL has been performing music selection work for many programs such as daily news programs on TBS, "Hodo Tokusyu", "News23", "Asa Chan", "N-St" and "Newscaster", and he has developed much staff, such as Masaya Misono, with faith that selecting music creates potentially unexpectedness and great synergies that original soundtracks cannot.