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

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	7.7
1955	Marital Relations	Movie	8.0
1955	Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple	Movie	7.7
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