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.

Personal Facts

Known For

Sound

Gender

male

Known Credits

108

Birth Date

1930-10-08 00:00:00

Birth Place

Tokyo, Japan

Known For

• 

  Harakiri
• 

  Ran
• 

  Rising Sun
• 

  Kwaidan
• 

  Woman in the Dunes
• 

  Empire of Passion

Credits

• sound (102 credits)

  • A Slippage in Five Movements

    music

    sound
    2023
  • Ludwigsburg Castle Festival 2022 - The Unfinished Revolution

    original music composer

    sound
    2022
  • 100 Years of Japanese Cinema

    original music composer

    sound
    1995
  • Spiritual Voices

    music

    sound
    1995
  • Sharaku

    original music composer

    sound
    1995
  • Rising Sun

    original music composer

    sound
    1993
  • Dream Window: Reflections on the Japanese Garden

    original music composer

    sound
    1992
  • Basara: The Princess Goh

    original music composer

    sound
    1992
  • The Inland Sea

    original music composer

    sound
    1991
  • Rikyu

    original music composer

    sound
    1989
  • Black Rain

    original music composer

    sound
    1989
  • Wuthering Heights

    original music composer

    sound
    1988
  • A Boy Named Hiroshima

    original music composer

    sound
    1987
  • Gonza the Spearman

    original music composer

    sound
    1986
  • The Empty Table

    original music composer

    sound
    1985
  • Ran

    original music composer

    sound
    1985
  • Fire Festival

    original music composer

    sound
    1985
  • A. K.

    original music composer

    sound
    1985
  • Änglaverket

    music

    sound
    1985
  • 2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure

    music

    sound
    1984
  • Antonio Gaudí

    original music composer

    sound
    1984
  • Lanterns on Blue Waters

    original music composer

    sound
    1983
  • Tokyo Trial

    original music composer

    sound
    1983
  • Prophecy

    original music composer

    sound
    1982
  • Rennyo and His Mother

    original music composer

    sound
    1981
  • The Minamata Mural

    original music composer

    sound
    1981
  • Ki or Breathing

    original music composer

    sound
    1980
  • The Lovers' Exile

    original music composer

    sound
    1980
  • An Ocean to Cross

    original music composer

    sound
    1980
  • House of Flames

    original music composer

    sound
    1979
  • The Japanese Part 3: Farm Song

    original music composer

    sound
    1978
  • Glowing Autumn

    original music composer

    sound
    1978
  • Empire of Passion

    original music composer

    sound
    1978
  • Ballad of Orin

    original music composer

    sound
    1977
  • Flickering Flames

    original music composer

    sound
    1977
  • The Fossil

    original music composer

    sound
    1975
  • Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

    original music composer

    sound
    1975
  • Himiko

    original music composer

    sound
    1974
  • The Petrified Forest

    original music composer

    sound
    1973
  • Time Within Memory

    original music composer

    sound
    1973
  • Dear Summer Sister

    original music composer

    sound
    1972
  • Summer Soldiers

    original music composer

    sound
    1972
  • Silence

    original music composer

    sound
    1971
  • Inn of Evil

    original music composer

    sound
    1971
  • The Ceremony

    original music composer

    sound
    1971
  • The Earth is Born Again

    original music composer

    sound
    1971
  • Dodes'ka-den

    original music composer

    sound
    1970
  • The Man Who Left His Will on Film

    original music composer

    sound
    1970
  • Bullet Wound

    original music composer

    sound
    1969
  • Double Suicide

    original music composer

    sound
    1969
  • Kyoto

    original music composer

    sound
    1969
  • The Man Without a Map

    original music composer

    sound
    1968
  • Nanami: The Inferno of First Love

    original music composer

    sound
    1968
  • Two Hearts in the Rain

    original music composer

    sound
    1968
  • Two in the Shadow

    original music composer

    sound
    1967
  • Samurai Rebellion

    original music composer

    sound
    1967
  • The Izu Dancer

    original music composer

    sound
    1967
  • Clouds at Sunset

    original music composer

    sound
    1967
  • Once a Rainy Day

    original music composer

    sound
    1966
  • The Face of Another

    original music composer

    sound
    1966
  • The Kii River

    original music composer

    sound
    1966
  • The Koumiko Mystery

    original music composer

    sound
    1965
  • Beast Alley

    original music composer

    sound
    1965
  • Illusion of Blood

    original music composer

    sound
    1965
  • Samurai Spy

    original music composer

    sound
    1965
  • The Song of the Bwana Toshi

    original music composer

    sound
    1965
  • The Last Judgment

    original music composer

    sound
    1965
  • Jose Torres II

    original music composer

    sound
    1965
  • With Beauty and Sorrow

    original music composer

    sound
    1965
  • Kwaidan

    original music composer

    sound
    1965
  • Car Thieves

    original music composer

    sound
    1964
  • The Call of Flesh

    original music composer

    sound
    1964
  • Ako

    original music composer

    sound
    1964
  • That Tender Age

    original music composer

    sound
    1964
  • Assassination

    original music composer

    sound
    1964
  • Escape from Japan

    original music composer

    sound
    1964
  • Our Happiness Alone

    original music composer

    sound
    1964
  • Children Hand in Hand

    original music composer

    sound
    1964
  • Pale Flower

    original music composer

    sound
    1964
  • Woman in the Dunes

    original music composer

    sound
    1964
  • Mon-Yo: Ornamental Motifs from Japan

    original music composer

    sound
    1963
  • Alone Across the Pacific

    original music composer

    sound
    1963
  • Twin Sisters of Kyoto

    original music composer

    sound
    1963
  • The Body

    original music composer

    sound
    1962
  • A Flame at the Pier

    original music composer

    sound
    1962
  • Harakiri

    original music composer

    sound
    1962
  • Human Zoo

    original music composer

    sound
    1962
  • Pitfall

    original music composer

    sound
    1962
  • Love at Twenty

    original music composer

    sound
    1962
  • The Inheritance

    original music composer

    sound
    1962
  • A Full Life

    original music composer

    sound
    1962
  • Atami Blues

    original music composer

    sound
    1962
  • Bad Boys

    original music composer

    sound
    1961
  • Women of Tokyo

    original music composer

    sound
    1961
  • The Shrikes

    original music composer

    sound
    1961
  • Youth in Fury

    original music composer

    sound
    1960
  • Vagabond Lovers

    music

    sound
    1959
  • Jose Torres

    original music composer

    sound
    1959
  • People Waiting for Spring

    original music composer

    sound
    1959
  • When It Rains, It Pours

    original music composer

    sound
    1957
  • Crazed Fruit

    original music composer

    sound
    1956
  • Silver Wheel

    original music composer

    sound
    1955

• actors (4 credits)

  • Dream Window: Reflections on the Japanese Garden

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Brand New Day

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • A. K.

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1985
  • The Face of Another

    Man Smoking in Bar (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1966

• writing (1 credits)

  • Double Suicide

    writer

    writing
    1969

• directing (1 credits)

  • X (Batsu)

    director

    directing
    1960