Tōru Takemitsu
Sound

Tōru Takemitsu

Born 8 October 1930 · Tokyo, Japan · Died 20 February 1996

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

Ran
Harakiri
Rising Sun
Woman in the Dunes
Kwaidan
The Face of Another
Samurai Rebellion
Dodes'ka-den
Empire of Passion
Black Rain
Pale Flower
Pitfall
A Slippage in Five Movements
Ludwigsburg Castle Festival 2022 - The Unfinished Revolution
Spiritual Voices
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Sharaku
Rising Sun
Dream Window: Reflections on the Japanese Garden
Basara: The Princess Goh
The Inland Sea
Rikyu
Black Rain
Wuthering Heights
A Boy Named Hiroshima
Gonza the Spearman
Ran
Fire Festival
The Empty Table
A. K.
Antonio Gaudí
2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure
Lanterns on Blue Waters
Tokyo Trial
Rennyo and His Mother
The Minamata Mural
An Ocean to Cross
Ki or Breathing
The Lovers' Exile
House of Flames
Empire of Passion
Glowing Autumn
The Japanese Part 3: Farm Song
Ballad of Orin
Flickering Flames
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
The Fossil
Himiko
The Petrified Forest
Time Within Memory
Summer Soldiers
Dear Summer Sister
The Ceremony
Silence
Inn of Evil
The Earth is Born Again
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
Dodes'ka-den
Double Suicide
Bullet Wound
Kyoto
Hymn to a Tired Man
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
The Man Without a Map
Samurai Rebellion
Clouds at Sunset
Two in the Shadow
The Izu Dancer
The Face of Another
Captive's Island
The Kii River
The Song of the Bwana Toshi
Kwaidan
Samurai Spy
Illusion of Blood
With Beauty and Sorrow
The Koumiko Mystery
Jose Torres II
The Last Judgment
Beast Alley
Ako
Assassination
Woman in the Dunes
Escape from Japan
Our Happiness Alone
Pale Flower
Children Hand in Hand
That Tender Age
Car Thieves
Alone Across the Pacific
She and He
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Mon-Yo: Ornamental Motifs from Japan
La Fée Diabolique
Pressure of Guilt
Pitfall
Harakiri
The Inheritance
A Flame at the Pier
Atami Blues
Human Zoo
A Full Life
Love at Twenty
The Body
Bad Boys
The Shrikes
Women of Tokyo
Youth in Fury
X (Batsu)
People Waiting for Spring
Jose Torres
Vagabond Lovers
When It Rains, It Pours
Crazed Fruit
Silver Wheel
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