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Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)

Alias:
T. Takemitsu
T. Takemitu
Tooru Takemitsu
Tôru Takemitsu
武満 徹

Birthplace:
Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Born:
October 8, 1930

Died:
February 20, 1996

Biography from TheMovieDB

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

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Compositor:
2023  A Slippage in Five Movements

Music:
1959  Jose Torres
1962  A Full Life
1962  Love at Twenty
1962  The Body
1964  Car Thieves
1965  Beast Alley
1965  Jose Torres II
1969  Kyoto
1970  Dodes'ka-den
1970  The Man Who Left His Will on Film
1972  Dear Summer Sister
1972  Summer Soldiers
1975  The Fossil
1979  House of Flames
1981  The Minamata Mural
1983  Tokyo Trial
1992  Basara: The Princess Goh
1995  Spiritual Voices
2023  A Slippage in Five Movements

Original Music Composer:
1955  Silver Wheel
1956  Crazed Fruit
1957  When It Rains, It Pours
1959  Jose Torres
1960  Youth in Fury
1961  Bad Boys
1962  A Flame at the Pier
1962  A Full Life
1962  Atami Blues
1962  Harakiri
1962  Human Zoo
1962  Love at Twenty
1962  Pitfall
1962  The Body
1962  The Inheritance
1963  Alone Across the Pacific
1963  She and He
1963  Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1964  Ako
1964  Assassination
1964  Car Thieves
1964  Children Hand in Hand
1964  Escape from Japan
1964  Our Happiness Alone
1964  Pale Flower
1964  The Call of Flesh
1964  Woman in the Dunes
1965  Beast Alley
1965  Illusion of Blood
1965  Jose Torres II
1965  Kwaidan
1965  Samurai Spy
1965  The Koumiko Mystery
1965  The Song of the Bwana Toshi
1965  With Beauty and Sorrow
1966  Captive's Island
1966  Once a Rainy Day
1966  The Face of Another
1966  The Kii River
1967  Clouds at Sunset
1967  Samurai Rebellion
1967  Two in the Shadow
1968  Hymn to a Tired Man
1968  Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
1968  The Man Without a Map
1968  Two Hearts in the Rain
1969  Bullet Wound
1969  Double Suicide
1969  Kyoto
1970  Dodes'ka-den
1970  The Man Who Left His Will on Film
1971  Inn of Evil
1971  Silence
1971  The Ceremony
1972  Dear Summer Sister
1972  Summer Soldiers
1973  The Petrified Forest
1973  Time Within Memory
1974  Himiko
1975  The Fossil
1975  Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
1977  Ballad of Orin
1978  Empire of Passion
1978  Glowing Autumn
1978  The Japanese Part 3: Farm Song
1979  House of Flames
1980  An Ocean to Cross
1980  Ki or Breathing
1980  The Lovers' Exile
1981  Rennyo and His Mother
1981  The Minamata Mural
1982  Prophecy
1983  Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983  Tokyo Trial
1984  Antonio Gaudí
1985  A. K.
1985  Fire Festival
1985  Ran
1985  The Empty Table
1986  Gonza the Spearman
1988  Wuthering Heights
1989  Black Rain
1989  Rikyu
1991  The Inland Sea
1992  Basara: The Princess Goh
1992  Dream Window: Reflections on the Japanese Garden
1993  Rising Sun
1995  100 Years of Japanese Cinema
1995  Sharaku
1995  Spiritual Voices
2023  A Slippage in Five Movements

Sound:
1955  Silver Wheel
1956  Crazed Fruit
1957  When It Rains, It Pours
1959  Jose Torres
1960  Youth in Fury
1961  Bad Boys
1961  Women of Tokyo
1962  A Flame at the Pier
1962  A Full Life
1962  Atami Blues
1962  Harakiri
1962  Human Zoo
1962  Love at Twenty
1962  Pitfall
1962  The Body
1962  The Inheritance
1963  Alone Across the Pacific
1963  She and He
1963  Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1964  Ako
1964  Assassination
1964  Car Thieves
1964  Children Hand in Hand
1964  Escape from Japan
1964  Our Happiness Alone
1964  Pale Flower
1964  The Call of Flesh
1964  Woman in the Dunes
1965  Beast Alley
1965  Illusion of Blood
1965  Jose Torres II
1965  Kwaidan
1965  Samurai Spy
1965  The Koumiko Mystery
1965  The Song of the Bwana Toshi
1965  With Beauty and Sorrow
1966  Captive's Island
1966  Once a Rainy Day
1966  The Face of Another
1966  The Kii River
1967  Clouds at Sunset
1967  Samurai Rebellion
1967  Two in the Shadow
1968  Hymn to a Tired Man
1968  Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
1968  The Man Without a Map
1968  Two Hearts in the Rain
1969  Bullet Wound
1969  Double Suicide
1969  Kyoto
1970  Dodes'ka-den
1970  The Man Who Left His Will on Film
1971  Inn of Evil
1971  Silence
1971  The Ceremony
1972  Dear Summer Sister
1972  Summer Soldiers
1973  The Petrified Forest
1973  Time Within Memory
1974  Himiko
1975  The Fossil
1975  Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
1977  Ballad of Orin
1978  Empire of Passion
1978  Glowing Autumn
1978  The Japanese Part 3: Farm Song
1979  House of Flames
1980  An Ocean to Cross
1980  Ki or Breathing
1980  The Lovers' Exile
1981  Rennyo and His Mother
1981  The Minamata Mural
1982  Prophecy
1983  Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983  Tokyo Trial
1984  Antonio Gaudí
1985  A. K.
1985  Fire Festival
1985  Ran
1985  The Empty Table
1986  Gonza the Spearman
1988  Wuthering Heights
1989  Black Rain
1989  Rikyu
1991  The Inland Sea
1992  Basara: The Princess Goh
1992  Dream Window: Reflections on the Japanese Garden
1993  Rising Sun
1995  100 Years of Japanese Cinema
1995  Sharaku
1995  Spiritual Voices
2023  A Slippage in Five Movements

Sound Designer:
1955  Silver Wheel
1956  Crazed Fruit
1957  When It Rains, It Pours
1959  Jose Torres
1960  Youth in Fury
1961  Bad Boys
1961  Women of Tokyo
1962  A Flame at the Pier
1962  A Full Life
1962  Atami Blues
1962  Harakiri
1962  Human Zoo
1962  Love at Twenty
1962  Pitfall
1962  The Body
1962  The Inheritance
1963  Alone Across the Pacific
1963  She and He
1963  Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1964  Ako
1964  Assassination
1964  Car Thieves
1964  Children Hand in Hand
1964  Escape from Japan
1964  Our Happiness Alone
1964  Pale Flower
1964  The Call of Flesh
1964  Woman in the Dunes
1965  Beast Alley
1965  Illusion of Blood
1965  Jose Torres II
1965  Kwaidan
1965  Samurai Spy
1965  The Koumiko Mystery
1965  The Song of the Bwana Toshi
1965  With Beauty and Sorrow
1966  Captive's Island
1966  Once a Rainy Day
1966  The Face of Another
1966  The Kii River
1967  Clouds at Sunset
1967  Samurai Rebellion
1967  Two in the Shadow
1968  Hymn to a Tired Man
1968  Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
1968  The Man Without a Map
1968  Two Hearts in the Rain
1969  Bullet Wound
1969  Double Suicide
1969  Kyoto
1970  Dodes'ka-den
1970  The Man Who Left His Will on Film
1971  Inn of Evil
1971  Silence
1971  The Ceremony
1972  Dear Summer Sister
1972  Summer Soldiers
1973  The Petrified Forest
1973  Time Within Memory
1974  Himiko
1975  The Fossil
1975  Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
1977  Ballad of Orin
1978  Empire of Passion
1978  Glowing Autumn
1978  The Japanese Part 3: Farm Song
1979  House of Flames
1980  An Ocean to Cross
1980  Ki or Breathing
1980  The Lovers' Exile
1981  Rennyo and His Mother
1981  The Minamata Mural
1982  Prophecy
1983  Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983  Tokyo Trial
1984  Antonio Gaudí
1985  A. K.
1985  Fire Festival
1985  Ran
1985  The Empty Table
1986  Gonza the Spearman
1988  Wuthering Heights
1989  Black Rain
1989  Rikyu
1991  The Inland Sea
1992  Basara: The Princess Goh
1992  Dream Window: Reflections on the Japanese Garden
1993  Rising Sun
1995  100 Years of Japanese Cinema
1995  Sharaku
1995  Spiritual Voices
2023  A Slippage in Five Movements

Writer:
1955  Silver Wheel
1956  Crazed Fruit
1957  When It Rains, It Pours
1959  Jose Torres
1960  Youth in Fury
1961  Bad Boys
1961  Women of Tokyo
1962  A Flame at the Pier
1962  A Full Life
1962  Atami Blues
1962  Harakiri
1962  Human Zoo
1962  Love at Twenty
1962  Pitfall
1962  The Body
1962  The Inheritance
1963  Alone Across the Pacific
1963  She and He
1963  Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1964  Ako
1964  Assassination
1964  Car Thieves
1964  Children Hand in Hand
1964  Escape from Japan
1964  Our Happiness Alone
1964  Pale Flower
1964  The Call of Flesh
1964  Woman in the Dunes
1965  Beast Alley
1965  Illusion of Blood
1965  Jose Torres II
1965  Kwaidan
1965  Samurai Spy
1965  The Koumiko Mystery
1965  The Song of the Bwana Toshi
1965  With Beauty and Sorrow
1966  Captive's Island
1966  Once a Rainy Day
1966  The Face of Another
1966  The Kii River
1967  Clouds at Sunset
1967  Samurai Rebellion
1967  Two in the Shadow
1968  Hymn to a Tired Man
1968  Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
1968  The Man Without a Map
1968  Two Hearts in the Rain
1969  Bullet Wound
1969  Double Suicide
1969  Kyoto
1970  Dodes'ka-den
1970  The Man Who Left His Will on Film
1971  Inn of Evil
1971  Silence
1971  The Ceremony
1972  Dear Summer Sister
1972  Summer Soldiers
1973  The Petrified Forest
1973  Time Within Memory
1974  Himiko
1975  The Fossil
1975  Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
1977  Ballad of Orin
1978  Empire of Passion
1978  Glowing Autumn
1978  The Japanese Part 3: Farm Song
1979  House of Flames
1980  An Ocean to Cross
1980  Ki or Breathing
1980  The Lovers' Exile
1981  Rennyo and His Mother
1981  The Minamata Mural
1982  Prophecy
1983  Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983  Tokyo Trial
1984  Antonio Gaudí
1985  A. K.
1985  Fire Festival
1985  Ran
1985  The Empty Table
1986  Gonza the Spearman
1988  Wuthering Heights
1989  Black Rain
1989  Rikyu
1991  The Inland Sea
1992  Basara: The Princess Goh
1992  Dream Window: Reflections on the Japanese Garden
1993  Rising Sun
1995  100 Years of Japanese Cinema
1995  Sharaku
1995  Spiritual Voices
2023  A Slippage in Five Movements

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TV Production

Music:
1981  Yumechiyo Nikki
1987  An Early Autumn

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