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Tôru Takemitsu (1930–1996)

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(age 65) in Tokyo, Japan
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1995 100 Years of Japanese Cinema (TV documentary)
 
1995 Sharaku
 
1994 Music for the Movies: Tôru Takemitsu (documentary)
 
1993 Rising Sun
 
1992 Gô-hime
 
1992 Dream Window: Reflections on the Japanese Garden (documentary)
 
1991 The Inland Sea (documentary)
 
1989 Rikyu
 
1989 Black Rain
 
1989 For the Whales (TV documentary)
 
1988 Wuthering Heights
 
1987 Kesa no aki (TV movie)
 
1986 In the World of Zen (TV series documentary)
 
1986 Gonza the Spearman
 
1985 Shokutaku no nai ie
 
1985 Himatsuri
 
1985 Antonio Gaudí (documentary)
 
1985 Ran
 
1985 A.K. (documentary)
 
1984 Shin yumechiyo nikki (TV series)
 
1983 Tokyo Trial (documentary)
 
1981 Rennyo and His Mother
 
1980 Tempyo no iraka
 
1980 Ki = Breathing (short)
 
1979 Kataku (short)
 
1979 Moeru aki
 
1978 Empire of Passion
 
1977 Ballad of Orin
 
1977 Sabita honoo
 
1975 Kaseki
 
1975 Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
 
1974 Shiawase
 
1974 Himiko
 
1973 The Petrified Forest
 
1973 Seigen-ki
 
1972 Summer Soldiers
 
1972 Dear Summer Sister
 
1971 Inochi bô ni furô
 
1971 The Ceremony
 
1971 Yomigaeru daichi
 
1971 The Centuries of the Emperors (TV series documentary)
 
1971 Silence
 
1970 Dodes'ka-den
 
1970 The Man Who Put His Will on Film
 
1969 Bullet Wound
 
1969 Double Suicide
 
1969 Kyoto (documentary short)
 
1968 Hymn to a Tired Man
 
1968 The Man Without a Map
 
1968 Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
 
1968 Two Hearts in the Rain
 
1967 Two in the Shadow
 
1967 The Song of Bwana Toshi
 
1967 Samurai Rebellion
 
1967 Izu no odoriko
 
1967 Clouds at Sunset
 
1966 Akogare
 
1966 The Call of Flesh
 
1966 The Face of Another
 
1966 Captive's Island
 
1966 The River Kino
 
1965 Beast Alley
 
1965 Yotsuya kaidan
 
1965 With Beauty and Sadness
 
1965 Jose Torres II (documentary)
 
1965 White Morning (short)
 
1965 Saigô no shinpan
 
1965 Samurai Spy
 
1964 Kwaidan
 
1964 The Tomb of Youth (TV documentary short)
 
1964 Assassination
 
1964 Car Thieves
 
1964 Escape from Japan
 
1964 Love (short)
 
1964 Pale Flower
 
1964 The Body
 
1964 The Inheritance
 
1964 Woman in the Dunes
 
1963 Alone on the Pacific
 
1963 She and He
 
1963 Shiro to kuro
 
1963 Wonderful Bad Woman
 
1963 Koto
 
1963 Children Hand in Hand
 
1962 Tears on the Lion's Mane
 
1962 Harakiri
 
1962 Love at Twenty (segment "Japan")
 
1962 Pitfall
 
1961 Kawaita mizuumi
 
1961 Bad Boys
 
1961 Mozu
 
1959 Jose Torres (documentary short)
 
1956 Crazed Fruit
 
1955 Bicycle in Dream (documentary short)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (4 titles)
2012 Colburn Concert Series (TV series documentary)
– Colburn Orchestra Live Performance Conducted by Gerard Schwarz - Takemitsu and Mahler (2012) (music: "From me flows what you call Time" / as Toru Takemitsu)
 
2003 Spy Sorge (writer: "Gengaku no tame no Requiem")
 
1968 Two Hearts in the Rain (music: "Meguri-ai")
 
1966 The Face of Another (music: "Waltz" - uncredited)
 
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1980 The Lovers' Exile (sound supervisor)
 
1964 Kwaidan (sound designer)
 
1962 Pitfall (sound designer)
 
Show ShowMusic Department (2 titles)
1989 Black Rain (conductor)
 
1962 Pitfall (musical director)
 
Show ShowWriter (1 title)
1969 Double Suicide (writer)
 
Show ShowActor (1 title)
1966 The Face of Another
Man Smoking in Bar (uncredited)
 
Show ShowSelf (5 titles)
1994 Music for the Movies: Tôru Takemitsu (documentary)
Himself
 
1988 Brand New Day (documentary)
 
1986 The 9th Annual Japan Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Winner
 
1985 A.K. (documentary)
Himself
 
1978 The 1st Annual Japan Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself
 

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Woman in the Dunes -- An amateur entomologist studies an unclassified species of beetle in a remote, vast desert; when he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night in the home of a young widow who lives in a hut at the bottom of a sand dune. Harakiri -- Following the collapse of his clan, unemployed samurai Hanshiro Tsugumo arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to commit ritual suicide on his property. Empire of Passion -- A married woman and her younger lover decide to murder her husband and dump his body in a well.
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Personal Details

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Alternate Names:

Tooru Takemitsu | Toru Takemitsu
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Star Sign:

Libra