Kinuyo Yamashita

Kinuyo Yamashita
BornAmagasaki, Hyōgo, Japan
GenresVideo game music
Occupation(s)Composer, musician
Instrument(s)Piano, saxophone
Years active1986–2010

Kinuyo Yamashita (山下 絹代, Yamashita Kinuyo) is a Japanese composer and musician known for her contributions in video games. Her best known soundtrack is Konami's Castlevania,[1] which was also her debut work. She was co-credited with Satoe Terashima under the pseudonym James Banana for her work on the Nintendo Entertainment System version of the game. This pseudonym was a pun of the name James Bernard, the composer of the 1958 film Dracula.[2][3]

  1. ^ Browning, John Edgar; Picart, Caroline Joan; Stoker, Dacre (2010). Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-3365-0.
  2. ^ "Castlevania (1986) NES credits - MobyGames". MobyGames. mobygames.com. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved January 4, 2011.
  3. ^ Collins, Karen (2008). Game sound: an introduction to the history, theory, and practice. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-03378-7.