Taro Iwashiro

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1965-05-01 (60 years old)

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan

Taro Iwashiro

Biography

Taro Iwashiro (岩代 太郎 Iwashiro Tarō) has composed the music for many Japanese television series and films. He has composed for both Red Cliff films, Shinobi: Heart Under Blade, Azumi, The Prince of Tennis, Rurouni Kenshin: The Motion Picture, and the Korean film Memories of Murder. He was also lead composer for the Capcom video game Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny. Iwashiro has often led the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra for his soundtracks, including the 2005 taiga drama Yoshitsune and 2008 film Red Cliff.

Acting

Production

2005

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade

as Original Music Composer

2018

Starlight Promises

as Original Music Composer

2003

Memories of Murder

as Original Music Composer

2008

Red Cliff

as Original Music Composer

2000

Another Heaven

as Original Music Composer

2008

The Chasing World

as Original Music Composer

2020

Fukushima 50

as Original Music Composer

2015

The Pearls of the Stone Man

as Original Music Composer

2023

The Moon

as Original Music Composer

2012

Tug of War!

as Music

2004

2021

It's a Flickering Life

as Original Music Composer

2015

The Crossing II

as Original Music Composer

2021

Unlock Your Heart

as Original Music Composer

2014

The Crossing I

as Original Music Composer

2016

Ken San

as Original Music Composer

2003

1997

The Dog of Flanders

as Original Music Composer

2013

A Tale of Samurai Cooking

as Original Music Composer

2023

2012

Our Homeland

as Original Music Composer

2005

Dear Hinagon

as Music

2009

Battle Under Orion

as Original Music Composer

2023

The Village

as Original Music Composer

2013

Unforgiven

as Original Music Composer

1996

The Bridge Club

as Original Music Composer

2022

Prior Convictions

as Original Music Composer

1998

Ping Pong Bath Station

as Original Music Composer

2024

Rude to Love

as Music

2017

Manhunt

as Original Music Composer

2007

Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky

as Original Music Composer

2002

11’09”01—September 11

as Original Music Composer

2019

The Journalist

as Original Music Composer

2014

Kiki's Delivery Service

as Original Music Composer

2003

Memories of Murder

as Conductor

2003

Memories of Murder

as Orchestrator

2006

Aogeba Tôtoshi

as Original Music Composer

2005

Spring Snow

as Music

2016

Museum

as Original Music Composer

2009

No More Cry

as Original Music Composer

2008

252: Signal of Life

as Original Music Composer

2023

Kubi

as Original Music Composer

2021

A Family

as Music

2025

35-Nen-me no Rabu Retaa

as Music Director

2025

Yasuko, Songs of Days Past

as Original Music Composer

2020

MOTHER

as Original Music Composer

2025

YUKIKAZE

as Original Music Composer

2003

Azumi

as Original Music Composer

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