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Shinichirô Ikebe (b. 1943)

Alias:
Ikebe Shin'ichirō
Shin'ichirō Ikebe

Birthplace:
Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Born:
September 15, 1943

Biography from TheMovieDB

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. He had several awards up to 2004, such as Excellence at the Salzburg TV Opera, The Italian Broadcasting Corporation, that is, RAI, The International Emmy Award, the Otaka Award, the Broadcasting Culture Award, the Yoshio Sagawa incentive Award, the Medal with Purple Ribbon.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Music:
1974  Dream Island Girl
1979  Future Boy Conan
1979  Rika
1984  Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection
1989  Days with Harasu
1990  Making of 'Dreams'
1991  Dohten
2001  Ino Tadataka: Meridian dreams
2018  Haruko's Doll
2021  Nobutora - Samurai Tiger

Original Music Composer:
1974  Dream Island Girl
1975  Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
1979  Future Boy Conan
1979  Rika
1979  Vengeance Is Mine
1980  Kagemusha
1981  Why Not?
1982  Eternal Monument
1983  The Ballad of Narayama
1984  Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection
1984  MacArthur's Children
1985  Gray Sunset
1986  Surgical Designs in Flames
1987  Zegen
1988  Labyrinth Romanesque
1989  Days with Harasu
1990  Dreams
1990  Making of 'Dreams'
1990  Takeshi: Childhood Days
1991  Dohten
1991  Rhapsody in August
1991  The Great Shogunate Battle
1993  Madadayo
1993  Paradise of Paradise
1997  Moonlight Serenade
1997  The Eel
1998  Murder on D Street
2000  Boy's Choir
2001  Closed Ward
2001  Ino Tadataka: Meridian dreams
2001  Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
2003  Spy Sorge
2003  Winter Days
2005  Summer of Ubume
2005  The Milkwoman
2006  The Ode to Joy
2007  Glory to the Filmmaker!
2009  The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
2014  Climbing to Spring
2018  Haruko's Doll
2021  Nobutora - Samurai Tiger

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TV Production

Music:
1978  Future Boy Conan
1978  Ōgon no Hibi
1980  Fujin no Mon
1980  On-yado Kawasemi
1982  Toge no Gunzo
1987  Keshin
1991  Kimi no na wa

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