Junichi Nakatsuru (中鶴 潤一, Nakatsuru Jun'ichi) is a Japanese video game composer and sound director employed at Bandai Namco Entertainment. He is best known for his work in the Soulcalibur series.Growing up, Nakatsuru enjoyed music, playing around with instruments while listening to music on the radio as a boy. His parents provided him with classical piano lessons, and he would always play popular songs with his own arrangements instead of practicing for the lesson. While attending high school, Nakatsuru played the trombone in a brass band, and was a keyboardist and band composer in his private life. He majored in art at the university and studied music theory, acoustics, and desktop music (DTM), although he was more interested in making original songs and playing them in a band.

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