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

Year	Title	Type	Rating
1969	Double Suicide	Movie	7.2

Year	Title	Type	Rating
1995	100 Years of Japanese Cinema	Movie	6.9
1992	Basara: The Princess Goh	Movie	7.1
1989	Rikyu	Movie	6.6
1989	Black Rain	Movie	7.6
1988	Arashi ga Oka	Movie	6.6
1986	Gonza the Spearman	Movie	6.3
1985	Family Without a Dinner Table	Movie	7.8
1985	Ran	Movie	8.2
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	7.1
1975	Moeru Sosamo	Drama	7.0
1975	Fossil	Movie	7.0
1975	Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees	Movie	6.8
1974	Himiko	Movie	6.5
1973	The Petrified Forest	Movie	7.1
1972	Summer Soldiers	Movie	7.0
1971	Silence	Movie	6.6
1971	Inn of Evil	Movie	7.2
1971	The Ceremony	Movie	6.7
1970	Dodesukaden	Movie	7.5
1970	The Man Who Left His Will on Film	Movie	6.6
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	7.9
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	6.6
1965	With Beauty and Sorrow	Movie	6.8
1964	Kwaidan	Movie	7.6
1964	Escape from Japan	Movie	7.3
1964	Assassination	Movie	6.6
1964	Pale Flower	Movie	7.4
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	7.3
1962	Harakiri	Movie	8.3
1962	Pitfall	Movie	7.2
1962	The Inheritance	Movie	7.1
1962	Atami Blues	Movie	5.1
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	7.0
1956	Crazed Fruit	Movie	7.0