Dan Ikuma

Dan Ikuma

  • Name: Dan Ikuma
  • Native name: 團伊玖磨
  • Also Known as: だん いくま, 團伊玖麿, 團伊玖摩
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: April 7, 1924
  • Died: May 17, 2001
Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Music School in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Kan'ichi Shimofusa, Saburō Moroi, and Midori Hosokawa.

During his career he completed six symphonies, all recorded and released on the Decca label in Japan, and wrote seven operas as well as a number of filmscores, and many songs. He wrote celebratory music for the Japanese imperial family, actively promoted cultural exchange with China (from 1979 until his death in Suzhou, China, in 2001), and received the commission to write an opera (Takeru) for the 1997 opening of the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Japan's main opera house.

Dan is known in Japan for his 1951 opera Yūzuru (Twilight Crane), which is regularly revived there. Edit Biography
Composer
Year Title Type Rating
1965 The Retreat from Kiska
Movie
2.0
1963 Dai Dokoro Taiheiki
Movie
8.0
1961 The Last War
Movie
6.3
1959 Sengoku Gunto Den
Movie
6.0
1959 Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
Movie
5.0
1957 The Snow Country
Movie
6.9
1956 Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Movie
7.8
1955 Marital Relations
Movie
8.0
1955 Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Movie
7.8
1955 Love Never Fails
Movie
0.0
1955 Fountainhead
Movie
2.0
1954 Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Movie
7.6
1952 Daibutsu Kaigan
Movie
0.0
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  • First Name: Dan
  • Family Name: Ikuma
  • Native name: 團伊玖磨
  • Also Known as: だん いくま, 團伊玖麿, 團伊玖摩
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: April 7, 1924
  • Died: May 17, 2001

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