Toru Takemitsu

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-10-08 (66 years old)

Deathday

1996-02-20

Place of Birth

Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Toru Takemitsu

Biography

Toru Takemitsu was a Japanese composer. He composed several hundred independent works of music, scored more than ninety films and published twenty books.

Acting

1985

A. K.

as Self

1987

1966

The Face of Another

as Man Smoking in Bar (uncredited)

Production

1965

Beast Alley

as Music

1965

Kwaidan

as Original Music Composer

1993

Rising Sun

as Original Music Composer

1985

Ran

as Original Music Composer

1967

Samurai Rebellion

as Original Music Composer

1989

Rikyu

as Original Music Composer

1966

The Face of Another

as Original Music Composer

1969

1965

Samurai Spy

as Original Music Composer

1969

Double Suicide

as Original Music Composer

1978

Empire of Passion

as Original Music Composer

1962

Pitfall

as Original Music Composer

1963

Alone Across the Pacific

as Original Music Composer

1964

Ako

as Original Music Composer

1995

1967

Clouds at Sunset

as Original Music Composer

1979

1995

100 Years of Japanese Cinema

as Original Music Composer

1986

Gonza the Spearman

as Original Music Composer

1961

1964

Car Thieves

as Music

1962

Harakiri

as Original Music Composer

1956

Crazed Fruit

as Original Music Composer

1962

The Inheritance

as Original Music Composer

1971

Silence

as Original Music Composer

1971

The Ceremony

as Original Music Composer

1967

Two in the Shadow

as Original Music Composer

1965

Illusion of Blood

as Original Music Composer

1977

Ballad of Orin

as Original Music Composer

1962

Atami Blues

as Original Music Composer

1962

A Flame at the Pier

as Original Music Composer

1964

Assassination

as Original Music Composer

1963

She and He

as Original Music Composer

1974

Himiko

as Original Music Composer

1968

Hymn to a Tired Man

as Original Music Composer

1968

Nanami: The Inferno of First Love

as Original Music Composer

1981

Rennyo and His Mother

as Original Music Composer

1980

An Ocean to Cross

as Original Music Composer

1988

Wuthering Heights

as Original Music Composer

1964

Woman in the Dunes

as Original Music Composer

1985

Fire Festival

as Original Music Composer

1978

Glowing Autumn

as Original Music Composer

1960

Youth in Fury

as Original Music Composer

1982

Prophecy

as Original Music Composer

1973

The Petrified Forest

as Original Music Composer

1984

Antonio Gaudí

as Original Music Composer

1961

Bad Boys

as Original Music Composer

1965

With Beauty and Sorrow

as Original Music Composer

1963

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

as Original Music Composer

1983

Tokyo Trial

as Music

1970

Dodes'ka-den

as Music

1955

Silver Wheel

as Original Music Composer

1969

Kyoto

as Music

1962

A Full Life

as Music

1980

Ki or Breathing

as Original Music Composer

1968

Two Hearts in the Rain

as Original Music Composer

1966

Once a Rainy Day

as Original Music Composer

1975

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

as Original Music Composer

1966

Captive's Island

as Original Music Composer

1964

The Call of Flesh

as Original Music Composer

1964

Escape from Japan

as Original Music Composer

1973

Time Within Memory

as Original Music Composer

1964

Our Happiness Alone

as Original Music Composer

1962

Human Zoo

as Original Music Composer

1989

Black Rain

as Original Music Composer

1964

Pale Flower

as Original Music Composer

1985

The Empty Table

as Original Music Composer

1969

Bullet Wound

as Original Music Composer

1966

The Kii River

as Original Music Composer

1962

The Body

as Music

1972

1965

The Song of the Bwana Toshi

as Original Music Composer

1959

Jose Torres

as Music

1962

Pitfall

as Sound Designer

1965

1972

1968

The Man Without a Map

as Original Music Composer

1983

Lanterns on Blue Waters

as Original Music Composer

1965

The Koumiko Mystery

as Original Music Composer

1957

When It Rains, It Pours

as Original Music Composer

1981

1965

Kwaidan

as Sound Designer

1962

1978

The Japanese Part 3: Farm Song

as Original Music Composer

1991

The Inland Sea

as Original Music Composer

1964

Children Hand in Hand

as Original Music Composer

1985

A. K.

as Original Music Composer

1980

The Lovers' Exile

as Original Music Composer

1995

Sharaku

as Original Music Composer

1974

The Fossil

as Music

1971

Inn of Evil

as Original Music Composer

1977

1961

The Shrikes

as Music

1960

X (Batsu)

as Director

1970

The Man Who Left His Will on Film

as Original Music Composer

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