Shinichiro Ikebe
Biography
Shinichiro Ikebe (池辺 晋一郎 Ikebe Shinichirou; born September 15, 1943, in Mito, Ibaraki) is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He has written the scores for many films by Akira Kurosawa and other Japanese film directors, including Kagemusha (1980), MacArthur's Children (1984), Kurosawa's Dreams (1990), Rhapsody in August (1991), Madadayo (1993), and Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001). He studied composition with Tomojirō Ikenouchi, Akio Yashiro, and Akira Miyoshi at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, obtaining a master's degree in 1971. He serves as a professor at the Tokyo College of Music. He had several awards up to 2004, such as Excellence at the Salzburg TV Opera, The Italian Broadcasting Corporation, that is, RAI, The International Emmy Award, the Otaka Award, the Broadcasting Culture Award, the Yoshio Sagawa incentive Award, the Medal with Purple Ribbon.
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Movies (43)
Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
Music (Sound)
2021
Haruko's Doll
Music (Sound)
2018
Climbing to Spring
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2014
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2009
Glory to the Filmmaker!
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2007
The Ode to Joy
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2006
Summer of Ubume
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2005
The Milkwoman
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2005
Winter Days
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2003
Spy Sorge
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2003
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
as Self
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'
as Self
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Drunken Angel'
as Self
2002
Ino Tadataka: Meridian Dreams
Music (Sound)
2001
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2001
Closed Ward
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2001
Boy's Choir
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2000
Colorful
Music (Sound)
2000
Murder on D Street
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1998
The Eel
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1997
Moonlight Serenade
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1997
Paradise of Paradise
1993
Madadayo
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1993
The Great Shogunate Battle
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1991
Rhapsody in August
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1991
Dohten
Music (Sound)
1991
Sea of Wandering
Music (Sound)
1990
Making of 'Dreams'
Music (Sound)
1990
Dreams
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1990
Takeshi: Childhood Days
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1990
Days with Harasu
Music (Sound)
1989
Labyrinth Romanesque
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1988
Zegen
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1987
Surgical Designs in Flames
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1986
Gray Sunset
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1985
MacArthur's Children
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1984
Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection
Music (Sound)
1984
The Ballad of Narayama
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1983
Eternal Monument
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1982
Eijanaika
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1981
Kagemusha
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1980
Vengeance Is Mine
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1979
Rika
Music (Sound)
1979
