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TAKEMITSU, Toru
Composer. Nationality: Japanese. Born: Tokyo, 8 October 1930; grew up in Manchuria. Education: Studied
with Kasuji Kiyose. Career: Member of the avant-garde group Jikken Kobo; entered lms as assistant to
Fumio Hayasaka; — rst lm score, for Ginrin; has composed orchestra works; —taught at Yale
University (/social-sciences-and-law/education/colleges-us/yale-university), New Haven (/places/united-
states-and-canada/us-political-geography/new-haven), Connecticut. Awards: Japanese Academy Award
and Los Angeles (/places/united-states-and-canada/us-political-geography/los-angeles) Film Critics Award,
for Ran, 1985. Died: 16 February 1996.

Films As Composer:
1955

Ginrin (Silver Circle) (Matsumoto) (co); Kinegraphy (Ohtsuji)

1956

Kurutta kajitsu (Crazed Fruit) (Nakahira); Shu to midori (Red and Green) (Nakamura); Tsuyu no
atosaki (Toward the Rainy Season) (Nakamura)
1957

Doshaburi (Hard Rain) (Nakamura); Kaoyaku (The Boss) (Nakamura)

1959

Haru o matsu hitobito (Those Who Wait for Spring) (Nakamura); Kiyen ryoko (Dangerous Voyage)
(Nakamura); Asu e no seiso (Tomorrow's Costume) (Nakamura); Itazura (The Joke) (Nakamura)
1960

José Torres (Teshigahara—short); Kawaita mizuumi (Youth in Fury) (Shinoda)

1961

Mozu (Shibuya); Furyo shonen (Bad Boys) (Hani); Hanjo (Nakamura); Mitasareta seikatsu (A Full Life)
(Hani)
1962

Karami-ai (Heritage) (Kobayashi); Otoshiana (Pitfall) (Teshigahara); Namida o shishi no tategami no

(Tears in the Lion's Mane) (Shinoda); Seppuku (Harakiri) (Kobayashi); "Japan" ep. of L'Amour à vingt
ans (Love at Twenty) (Ishihara); Ratai (The Body) (Narusawa)
1963

Kawaita hana (Pale Flower) (Shinoda); Subarashii akujo (Wonderful Bad Woman) (Onchi); Miren
(Regrets) (Chiba); Taiheiyo hitoribotchi (My Enemy, the Sea; Alone on the Paci c) (Ichikawa) (co);
Shiro to kuro (Pressure of Guilt) (Horikawa); Koto (Twin Sisters of Kyoto) (Nakamura); Sunna no onna
(Woman in the Dunes) (Teshigahara); Kanojo to kare (She and He) (Hani)
1964

Nijuissa no chichi (A Father at 21) (Nakamura); "Ako" ep. of La Fleur de l'age (The Adolescents)
(Teshigahara); Ansatsu (Assassination) (Shinoda); Nihon dashutsu (Escape from Japan) (Yoshida); Te o
tsunagu ko-ra (Children Hand in Hand) (Hani); Jidosha doroba (Car Thief) (Wada); Kaidan (Kwaidan)
(Kobayashi); Shiroi asa (White Morning) (Teshigahara—short); Jotai (The Call of Flesh) (Onchi); Le
Mystère Koumiko (The Koumiko Mystery) (Marker)

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1965

Utsukushisa to kanashimi to (With Beauty and Sorrow) (Shinoda); Saigo no shinpan (The Last
Judgment) (Horikawa); Ibun Sarutobi sasuke (Samurai Spy) (Shinoda); Kemonomichi (Beast Alley)
(Sugawa); José Torres, Part II (Teshigahara—doc); Yotsuya kaidan (Illusion of Blood) (Toyoda);
Buwana Toshi no uta (Bwana Toshi) (Hani)
1966

Shokei no shima (Punishment Island) (Shinoda); Monokurohmu no gaka: Yves Kline (Monochrome
Painter Yves Kline) (Noda); Ki no kawa (Ki River) (Nakamura); Tanin no kao (The Face of Another)
(Teshigahara); Akogare (Once a Rainy Day) (Onchi)
1967

Akanegumo (Clouds at Sunset) (Shinoda); Joi-Uchi (Rebellion) (Kobayashi); Izol no odoriko (Onchi);
Midaregumo (Two in the Shadow) (Naruse)
1968

Meguriai (The Meeting) (Onchi); Moetikuta chizu (The Man without a Map) (Teshigahara); Nihon no
seishun (Japanese Youth) (Kobayashi); Kyo (Kyoto) (Ichikawa); Hatsukoi jigokuhen (Nanami: Inferno
of First Love) (Hani)
1969

Dankon (Bullet Wound) (Moritani); Shinju ten no amijima (Double Suicide) (Shinoda)
1970

Taiyo no karyudo (Hunter of the Sun) (Onchi); Dodesukaden (Dodeskaden) (Kurosawa); Yomigaeru
daichi (The Rebirth of the Soil) (Nakamura); Tokyo senso sengo hiwa (He Died after the War)
(Oshima); Inochi bonifuro (Inn of Evil) (Kobayashi)
1971

Gishiki (The Ceremony) (Oshima); Chinmoko (Silence) (Shinoda)

1972

Natsu no imoto (Dear Summer Sister) (Oshima); Wonder World (Funakoshi); Summer Soldiers
(Teshigahara); Seigenki (Time without Memory) (Narushima)
1973

Kaseki no mori (The Petri ed Forest) (Shinoda)

1974

Himiko (Shinoda); Shiawase (Happiness) (Onchi)

1975

Sakura no mori no mankai no shita (Under the Cherry Blossoms) (Shinoda); Kaseki (Fossils)
(Kobayashi)
1976

Nihontou: Miyairi Kouhei no waza (Japanese Swords: The Work of Kouhei Miyairi) (Yamauchi)
1977

Sabita honoo (Rusty Flame) (Sadanaga); Hanare goze Orin (The Ballad of Orin) (Shinoda)
1978

Ai no borei (Empire of Passion) (Oshima); Moeru aki (Burning Autumn; Glowing Autumn)
(Kobayashi)
1979

Le Musée du Louvre (The Louvre Museum) (Uruta); Kataku (This World) (Kawamoto)
1980

Tenpyou no iraka (Slates of the Tenpyo Period) (Kumai)

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1982

Yogen (Prophecy) (Hani)

1983

Tokyo saiban (The Tokyo Trial) (Kobayashi—doc)

1984

Himatsuri (Fire Festival) (Yanagimachi)

1985

Antonio Gaudi (Teshigahara); Ran (Kurosawa); Shokutaku no nai ie (Family without a Dinner Table)
(Kobayashi); Yari no Gonza (Gonza the Spearman) (Shinoda)
1990

Kuroi Ame (Black Rain) (Imamura)

1991

Rikyu (Teshigahara)
1993

Rising Sun (Kaufman)

1994

Music for the Movies: Toru Takemitsu (/people/literature-and-arts/music-history-composers-and-

performers-biographies/toru-takemitsu) (Zwerin—doc) (+ ro as interviewee)
Publications
By TAKEMITSU: book—

Confronting Silence: Selected Writings, Berkeley, California, 1995.

By TAKEMITSU: article—

Cinejap (Paris), September 1978.

On TAKEMITSU: book—

Ohtake, Norike, Creative Sources for the Music of Toru Takemitsu (/people/literature-and-arts/music-
history-composers-and-performers-biographies/toru-takemitsu), Hertfordshire, England, 1993.
On TAKEMITSU: articles—

Chaplin (Stockholm), April-May 1965.

Focus on Film (London), March-April 1970.
Ecran (Paris), September 1975.
Revue du Cinéma (Paris), September 1985.
Obituary in Cue Sheet (Hollywood), January 1996.
Obituary in Variety (New York (/places/united-states-and-canada/us-political-geography/new-york)), 26
February 1996.
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers Hirano, Kyoko

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