Toru Takemitsu

Composer

Born: October 8, 1930 (65 years old)

Died: February 20, 1996

Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan

Biography

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

Filmography (60)

• The Face of Another (1966, ★ 7.8)
• Kwaidan (1965, ★ 7.7)
• Ran (1985, ★ 8)
• Samurai Rebellion (1967, ★ 8.2)
• Rikyu (1989, ★ 7.5)
• Harakiri (1962, ★ 8.4)
• Pitfall (1962, ★ 7.3)
• The Inheritance (1962, ★ 7.1)
• Silence (1971, ★ 7.2)
• Two in the Shadow (1967, ★ 7.7)
• Woman in the Dunes (1964, ★ 8.2)
• Ballad of Orin (1977, ★ 7.1)
• Jose Torres (1959, ★ 8)
• A. K. (1985, ★ 6.3)
• Rising Sun (1993, ★ 6.1)
• Double Suicide (1969, ★ 6.9)
• Samurai Spy (1965, ★ 6.4)
• Empire of Passion (1978, ★ 6.8)
• Alone Across the Pacific (1963, ★ 6.9)
• Ako (1964, ★ 6.8)
• Gonza the Spearman (1986, ★ 7)
• Crazed Fruit (1956, ★ 6.9)
• Illusion of Blood (1965, ★ 6.1)
• Atami Blues (1962, ★ 6.5)
• Assassination (1964, ★ 7)
• A Flame at the Pier (1962, ★ 6)
• She and He (1963, ★ 6.7)
• Himiko (1974, ★ 6.9)
• Nanami: The Inferno of First Love (1968, ★ 6.9)
• Wuthering Heights (1988, ★ 6.7)