| Kenji Yamamoto | |
| Native Name: | 山本 健司 |
| Native Name Lang: | jpn |
| Birth Date: | 1 July 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Japan |
| Occupation: | Composer, arranger |
| Years Active: | 1987–2011 |
is a Japanese composer and arranger who has been responsible for producing and composing soundtracks, including opening and ending sequence themes for various anime, tokusatsu and video game projects in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, mostly related to the Dragon Ball franchise. He has worked on soundtracks of various Dragon Ball video games.
Yamamoto has also composed background music for Dragon Ball Z Kai, a revamped version of the anime series Dragon Ball Z. On March 9, 2011, Toei Animation publicly acknowledged that many of Yamamoto's musical works for the series infringed upon unidentified third-party copyrights. As a result, Toei fired Yamamoto and replaced his compositions with those from the original Dragon Ball Z series written by Shunsuke Kikuchi.[1] [2] The plagiarism of these works have been known to fans since May 2010.[3] Due to the discovery of plagiarism in his compositions by Toei, they were replaced in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai HD Collection and later copies of . Since then, a limited pre-order bonus releases, based on the Super Famicom games of (Switch version) and (3DS version) would replace the music in 16bit era.
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| Aitsu to Lullaby | Soundtrack; with Satoshi Kadokura and Takashi Kudou | |
| Dragon Ball Z | Arranged "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" and "Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Power!" | |
| Harbor Light Story Fashion Lala Yori | Soundtrack | |
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| Dragon Ball Z Super Gokuden: Totsugeki-Hen | Soundtrack | |
| Dragon Ball Z Super Gokuden: Kakusei-Hen | Soundtrack | |
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| Dragon Ball Z: Shin Butōden | Soundtrack | |
| Dragon Ball Z: The Legend | Soundtrack | |
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| Ultra Nyan: Extraordinary Cat who Descended from the Starry Sky | Soundtrack | |
| Dr. Slump (1999 video game) | Soundtrack | |
| Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger | Soundtrack; with Kentaro Haneda, Kousuke Yamashita, Hiroshi Takaki and Megumi Oohashi | |
| Dragon Ball Z: Budokai | Soundtrack | |
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| Dragon Ball Z Kai | Soundtrack (episodes 1–95) | |
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| Dragon Ball Xenoverse (Network Test) | Soundtrack |