Toru Takemitsu
Sound1930Tokyo, Japan
Biography
Toru Takemitsu was a Japanese composer. He composed several hundred independent works of music, scored more than ninety films and published twenty books.
Known For
Acting History
1995
Spiritual Voices
Music
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Original Music Composer
Sharaku
Original Music Composer
1993
Rising Sun
Original Music Composer
1992
1991
The Inland Sea
Original Music Composer
1989
Rikyu
Original Music Composer
Black Rain
Original Music Composer
1988
Wuthering Heights
Original Music Composer
1986
Gonza the Spearman
Original Music Composer
1985
A. K.
as Self
Fire Festival
Original Music Composer
The Empty Table
Original Music Composer
A. K.
Original Music Composer
Ran
Original Music Composer
1984
Antonio Gaudí
Original Music Composer
1983
Tokyo Trial
Original Music Composer
Lanterns on Blue Waters
Original Music Composer
1981
Rennyo and His Mother
Original Music Composer
1980
The Lovers' Exile
Original Music Composer
1979
House of Flames
Original Music Composer
1978
Empire of Passion
Original Music Composer
Glowing Autumn
Original Music Composer
1977
Ballad of Orin
Original Music Composer
Flickering Flames
Music
1975
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
Original Music Composer
Fossil
Music
1974
Himiko
Original Music Composer
1973
The Petrified Forest
Original Music Composer
1972
Dear Summer Sister
Original Music Composer
Summer Soldiers
Music
1971
1970
Dodes'ka-den
Original Music Composer
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
Original Music Composer
1969
Double Suicide
Writer
Double Suicide
Original Music Composer
1968
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
Original Music Composer
The Man Without a Map
Original Music Composer
1967
Two in the Shadow
Original Music Composer
Samurai Rebellion
Original Music Composer
Clouds at Sunset
Original Music Composer
1966
The Face of Another
as Man Smoking in Bar (uncredited)
The Face of Another
Original Music Composer
Once a Rainy Day
Original Music Composer
Captive's Island
Original Music Composer
The Kii River
Original Music Composer
1965
Kwaidan
Original Music Composer
Kwaidan
Sound Designer
Samurai Spy
Original Music Composer
With Beauty and Sorrow
Original Music Composer
The Song of the Bwana Toshi
Original Music Composer
Jose Torres II
Music
1964
Ako
Original Music Composer
Car Thieves
Music
Assassination
Original Music Composer
Woman in the Dunes
Original Music Composer
The Call of Flesh
Original Music Composer
Our Happiness Alone
Original Music Composer
Pale Flower
Original Music Composer
Children Hand in Hand
Original Music Composer
1963
Alone Across the Pacific
Original Music Composer
She and He
Original Music Composer
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Original Music Composer
1962
Pitfall
Original Music Composer
Harakiri
Original Music Composer
The Inheritance
Original Music Composer
A Flame at the Pier
Original Music Composer
Atami Blues
Original Music Composer
A Full Life
Music
Human Zoo
Original Music Composer
The Body
Music
1961
1960
Youth in Fury
Original Music Composer
1959
Jose Torres
Music
1957
When It Rains, It Pours
Original Music Composer
1956
Crazed Fruit
Original Music Composer