"Japanese Beethoven" Mamoru Samuragochi reveals someone else wrote his arrangements for the past decade.

Resident Evil and Onimusha composer Mamoru Samuragochi has admitted that for the past 10 years someone else wrote his arrangements, including what is considered his pinnacle achievement, a piece titled "Hiroshima Symphony" dedicated to the lives lost during the 1945 atomic explosion.

The news comes by way of Samuragochi's lawyer to Japan Times, who said Samuragochi "deeply regrets" actions he called "totally inexcusable." It has also been revealed that Samuragochi did not write a piece called "Sonatina for Violin," which will be featured at the Winter Olympics this months.

Samuragochi is deaf and is dubbed a "modern Beethoven" by Japanese media because of the hearing impairment condition he shares with the famous German composer. The 50-year-old composed the music for 1997's Resident Evil: The Director's Cut and later worked on 2001's Onimusha: Warlords.

He comes forward to admit his actions after Japanese public broadcaster NHK aired a documentary featuring Samuragochi touring the tsunami-affected Tohuku region of Japan, meeting with survivors and shown composing a requiem for a little girl who lost her mother. NHK has since come forward to offer an apology for airing the documentary.

Samuragochi's music label will stop shipping his CDs and selling his work online immediately and a tour featuring his music is now in question.

SOURCE: Gamespot.com

He is not the first one, he won't be the last one.

Ever heard an impro from slash ? xp

At least he admitted he is a fraud. I think it would be hard to do that after 10 years.

Its video game composing....who cares.

Tl;dr? I mean, I even bolded some parts worth reading... T_T

EDIT: In case you don't get it, the guy was considered a Modern Beethoven in Japan, not because videogame composing. The guy composed music for almost everything, including the song for the Winter Olympics.

Wasn't Resident Evil: The Director's Cut's OST terrible? He had to get someone else to produce that for him?

Edit: Apparently that was the Dual Shock Version of the Director's Cut. Still, shame on him :(

The question is: Who did?

The music is still the same, which is the important thing.

Funny timing for me. I was watching an episode of a mystery j-drama two days ago about a Music/Mathematics professor who was stealing the work of his junior, a promising young pianist/mathematician, and publishing it as his own.

This, however, is probably about the fact that works created by someone famous sell more and receive more critical acclaim. If you think about it, that's the real crime.

So, who did right it? And why did the people who aired the documentary apologize? This whole thing is strange

Read more than the headline next time.

Pretty ballsy to admit, though.