In addition to many bestselling solo albums, Hotei composed and performed the score for Hiroyuki Nakano's "Samurai Fiction", as well as starring in the film. He composed three tracks for the cult classic American film "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" together with Ray Cooper. Hotei's best known song "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" was used in Quentin Tarantino's feature film "Kill Bill", the PlayStation 2 version of "Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA", and Michael Bay's feature film "Transformers". Hotei recorded a cover of John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" for "Merry Axemas: A Guitar Christmas", an instrumental guitar Christmas album featuring tracks from guitarists including Richie Sambora, Jeff Beck, Joe Perry, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai and Steve Morse.