Shinichirô Ikebe

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1943-09-15 (81 years old)

Place of Birth Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As Shin'ichirō Ikebe, Ikebe Shin'ichirō

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. 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.

Known For

Sound

2018
Haruko's Doll

as Music

2014
Climbing to Spring

as Original Music Composer

2009
2007
Glory to the Filmmaker!

as Original Music Composer

2006
The Ode to Joy

as Original Music Composer

2005
Summer of Ubume

as Original Music Composer

2005
The Milkwoman

as Original Music Composer

2003
Spy Sorge

as Original Music Composer

2003
Winter Days

as Original Music Composer

2001
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

as Original Music Composer

2001
Closed Ward

as Original Music Composer

2000
Boy's Choir

as Original Music Composer

1998
Murder on D Street

as Original Music Composer

1997
The Eel

as Original Music Composer

1997
Moonlight Serenade

as Original Music Composer

1993
Madadayo

as Original Music Composer

1993
Paradise of Paradise

as Original Music Composer

1991
Dohten

as Music

1991
Rhapsody in August

as Original Music Composer

1991
Kimi no na wa

as Music

1990
1990
Dreams

as Original Music Composer

1990
Takeshi: Childhood Days

as Original Music Composer

1989
1988
Labyrinth Romanesque

as Original Music Composer

1987
Zegen

as Original Music Composer

1986
Surgical Designs in Flames

as Original Music Composer

1985
Gray Sunset

as Original Music Composer

1984
MacArthur's Children

as Original Music Composer

1983
The Ballad of Narayama

as Original Music Composer

1982
Eternal Monument

as Original Music Composer

1982
Toge no Gunzo

as Music

1981
Why Not?

as Original Music Composer

1980
Kagemusha

as Original Music Composer

1980
Fujin no Mon

as Music

1979
1979
Vengeance Is Mine

as Original Music Composer

1978
1978
Ōgon no Hibi

as Music

1975
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

as Original Music Composer

1974