Toru Takemitsu

Takemitsu Toru

  • Name: Takemitsu Toru
  • Native name: 武満 徹
  • Also Known as: Takemitsu Tōru
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: October 8, 1930
  • Died: February 20, 1996
Takemitsu Toru was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He is famed for combining elements of oriental and occidental philosophy to create a sound uniquely his own and for fusing opposites together such as sound with silence and tradition with innovation. He composed several hundred independent works of music, scored more than ninety films and published twenty books. (Source: Wikipedia) Edit Biography
Screenwriter
Year Title Type Rating
1969 Double Suicide
Movie
7.4
Composer
Year Title Type Rating
1995 100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Movie
6.9
1992 Basara: The Princess Goh
Movie
7.4
1989 Rikyu
Movie
6.8
1989 Black Rain
Movie
7.6
1988 Arashi ga Oka
Movie
6.8
1986 Gonza the Spearman
Movie
6.3
1985 Family Without a Dinner Table
Movie
7.8
1985 Ran
Movie
8.1
1985 Fire Festival
Movie
7.1
1983 Tokyo Trial
Movie
0.0
1979 Akoroshi
Drama
0.0
1978 Empire of Passion
Movie
6.9
1977 Ballad of Orin
Movie
7.2
1975 Moeru Sosamo
Drama
7.0
1975 Fossil
Movie
7.0
1975 Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
Movie
6.8
1974 Himiko
Movie
6.6
1973 The Petrified Forest
Movie
7.1
1972 Summer Soldiers
Movie
7.0
1971 Silence
Movie
6.5
1971 Inn of Evil
Movie
7.3
1971 The Ceremony
Movie
6.9
1970 Dodesukaden
Movie
7.3
1970 The Man Who Left His Will on Film
Movie
6.5
1968 Hymn to a Tired Man
Movie
6.0
1968 The Man Without A Map
Movie
6.8
1968 Two Hearts in the Rain
Movie
0.0
1967 Two in the Shadow
Movie
7.8
1967 Embrace Me At Sunset
Movie
6.0
1967 Samurai Rebellion
Movie
8.0
1967 The Izu Dancer
Movie
7.8
1966 Once a Rainy Day
Movie
0.0
1966 The Face of Another
Movie
7.7
1966 Shokei no Shima
Movie
6.8
1966 Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Drama
6.0
1965 Beast Alley
Movie
7.0
1965 Illusion of Blood
Movie
7.1
1965 Samurai Spy
Movie
6.8
1965 With Beauty and Sorrow
Movie
6.7
1964 Kwaidan
Movie
7.6
1964 Assassination
Movie
6.7
1964 Escape from Japan
Movie
8.0
1964 Pale Flower
Movie
7.5
1964 Woman in the Dunes
Movie
7.7
1963 Alone Across the Pacific
Movie
7.5
1963 She and He
Movie
7.8
1963 Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Movie
7.2
1962 Harakiri
Movie
8.3
1962 Pitfall
Movie
7.2
1962 The Inheritance
Movie
7.2
1962 Atami Blues
Movie
5.1
1961 Mukkuri wo Fuku Onna
Special
0.0
1961 Anata wa Daredeshou
Special
0.0
1961 Madara Onna
Movie
9.0
1960 Towering Waves
Movie
2.0
1960 Dry Lake
Movie
6.9
1959 Marry a Millionaire
Movie
0.0
1959 Vagabond Lovers
Movie
1.0
1957 Doshaburi
Movie
6.5
1956 Crazed Fruit
Movie
6.9
Movie
Year Title Role Rating
1966 The Face of Another
Japanese Movie, 1966,
[Man smoking in bar] (Bit part)
[Man smoking in bar]
Bit part
7.7
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  • First Name: Toru
  • Family Name: Takemitsu
  • Native name: 武満 徹
  • Also Known as: Takemitsu Tōru
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: October 8, 1930
  • Died: February 20, 1996

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