Shinichirô Ikebe

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-09-15 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Shinichirô Ikebe

Biography

Shin'ichirō Ikebe (Japanese: 池辺 晋一郎 Ikebe Shin'ichirō; born September 15, 1943, in Mito, Ibaraki) is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He has written the scores for many films by Akira Kurosawa and other Japanese film directors, including Kagemusha (1980), MacArthur's Children (1984), Kurosawa's Dreams (1990), Rhapsody in August (1991), Madadayo (1993), and Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001). He studied composition with Tomojirō Ikenouchi, Akio Yashiro, and Akira Miyoshi at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, obtaining a master's degree in 1971. He serves as a professor at the Tokyo College of Music. H...

Production

1990

1997

The Eel

as Original Music Composer

1980

Kagemusha

as Original Music Composer

1990

Dreams

as Original Music Composer

1989

1991

Dohten

as Music

1981

Why Not?

as Original Music Composer

1991

Rhapsody in August

as Original Music Composer

2014

Climbing to Spring

as Original Music Composer

2005

Summer of Ubume

as Original Music Composer

2009

2003

Spy Sorge

as Original Music Composer

1997

Moonlight Serenade

as Original Music Composer

1975

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

as Original Music Composer

2001

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

as Original Music Composer

1988

Labyrinth Romanesque

as Original Music Composer

1998

Murder on D Street

as Original Music Composer

1990

Takeshi: Childhood Days

as Original Music Composer

2007

Glory to the Filmmaker!

as Original Music Composer

1993

Madadayo

as Original Music Composer

1985

Gray Sunset

as Original Music Composer

2000

Boy's Choir

as Original Music Composer

2005

The Milkwoman

as Original Music Composer

2003

Winter Days

as Original Music Composer

1987

Zegen

as Original Music Composer

1983

The Ballad of Narayama

as Original Music Composer

1984

MacArthur's Children

as Original Music Composer

2006

The Ode to Joy

as Original Music Composer

1986

Surgical Designs in Flames

as Original Music Composer

1979

2018

1993

Paradise of Paradise

as Original Music Composer

1979

Vengeance Is Mine

as Original Music Composer

2001

Closed Ward

as Original Music Composer

1982

Eternal Monument

as Original Music Composer

1974

1991

The Great Shogunate Battle

as Original Music Composer

1979

Rika

as Music

2000

Colorful

as Music

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