Toru Takemitsu

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1930-10-08

Deathday 1996-02-20 (65 years old)

Place of Birth Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As T. Takemitsu, Tooru Takemitsu, T. Takemitu, Tôru Takemitsu, 武満 徹

Toru Takemitsu

Biography

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

Known For

Sound

1995
1995
100 Years of Japanese Cinema

as Original Music Composer

1995
Sharaku

as Original Music Composer

1993
Rising Sun

as Original Music Composer

1991
The Inland Sea

as Original Music Composer

1989
Rikyu

as Original Music Composer

1989
Black Rain

as Original Music Composer

1988
Wuthering Heights

as Original Music Composer

1987
1986
Gonza the Spearman

as Original Music Composer

1985
Ran

as Original Music Composer

1985
Fire Festival

as Original Music Composer

1985
The Empty Table

as Original Music Composer

1985
A. K.

as Original Music Composer

1984
Antonio Gaudí

as Original Music Composer

1983
Tokyo Trial

as Music

1983
Lanterns on Blue Waters

as Original Music Composer

1982
Prophecy

as Original Music Composer

1981
Rennyo and His Mother

as Original Music Composer

1981
1981
1980
An Ocean to Cross

as Original Music Composer

1980
Ki or Breathing

as Original Music Composer

1980
The Lovers' Exile

as Original Music Composer

1979
1978
Empire of Passion

as Original Music Composer

1978
Glowing Autumn

as Original Music Composer

1978
The Japanese Part 3: Farm Song

as Original Music Composer

1977
Ballad of Orin

as Original Music Composer

1977
1975
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

as Original Music Composer

1974
Himiko

as Original Music Composer

1974
The Fossil

as Music

1973
The Petrified Forest

as Original Music Composer

1973
Time Within Memory

as Original Music Composer

1972
1972
1971
The Ceremony

as Original Music Composer

1971
Silence

as Original Music Composer

1971
Inn of Evil

as Original Music Composer

1970
Dodes'ka-den

as Music

1969
Double Suicide

as Original Music Composer

1969
Kyoto

as Music

1969
Bullet Wound

as Original Music Composer

1968
Hymn to a Tired Man

as Original Music Composer

1968
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love

as Original Music Composer

1968
Two Hearts in the Rain

as Original Music Composer

1968
The Man Without a Map

as Original Music Composer

1967
Samurai Rebellion

as Original Music Composer

1967
Clouds at Sunset

as Original Music Composer

1967
Two in the Shadow

as Original Music Composer

1966
The Face of Another

as Original Music Composer

1966
Once a Rainy Day

as Original Music Composer

1966
Captive's Island

as Original Music Composer

1966
The Kii River

as Original Music Composer

1965
Beast Alley

as Music

1965
Kwaidan

as Original Music Composer

1965
Samurai Spy

as Original Music Composer

1965
Illusion of Blood

as Original Music Composer

1965
With Beauty and Sorrow

as Original Music Composer

1965
The Song of the Bwana Toshi

as Original Music Composer

1965
1965
The Koumiko Mystery

as Original Music Composer

1965
Kwaidan

as Sound Designer

1964
Ako

as Original Music Composer

1964
Car Thieves

as Music

1964
Assassination

as Original Music Composer

1964
Woman in the Dunes

as Original Music Composer

1964
The Call of Flesh

as Original Music Composer

1964
Escape from Japan

as Original Music Composer

1964
Our Happiness Alone

as Original Music Composer

1964
Pale Flower

as Original Music Composer

1964
Children Hand in Hand

as Original Music Composer

1963
Alone Across the Pacific

as Original Music Composer

1963
She and He

as Original Music Composer

1963
Twin Sisters of Kyoto

as Original Music Composer

1962
Pitfall

as Original Music Composer

1962
Harakiri

as Original Music Composer

1962
The Inheritance

as Original Music Composer

1962
A Flame at the Pier

as Original Music Composer

1962
Atami Blues

as Original Music Composer

1962
A Full Life

as Music

1962
Human Zoo

as Original Music Composer

1962
The Body

as Music

1962
Pitfall

as Sound Designer

1962
1961
1961
Bad Boys

as Original Music Composer

1960
Youth in Fury

as Original Music Composer

1959
Jose Torres

as Music

1957
When It Rains, It Pours

as Original Music Composer

1956
Crazed Fruit

as Original Music Composer

1955
Silver Wheel

as Original Music Composer

Actor

1987
1985
A. K.

as Self

1966
The Face of Another

as Man Smoking in Bar (uncredited)

Writer

1969
Double Suicide

as Writer

Crew