Shinichiro Ikebe
Born: 1943-09-15 in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Known For: Sound
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.
Filmography
2021
- Nobutora - Samurai Tiger ... (Music)
2018
- Haruko's Doll ... (Music)
2014
- Climbing to Spring ... (Original Music Composer)
2009
- The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity ... (Original Music Composer)
2007
- Glory to the Filmmaker! ... (Original Music Composer)
2006
- The Ode to Joy ... (Original Music Composer)
2005
- The Milkwoman ... (Original Music Composer)
- Summer of Ubume ... (Original Music Composer)
2003
- Spy Sorge ... (Original Music Composer)
- Winter Days ... (Original Music Composer)
2002
2001
- Warm Water Under a Red Bridge ... (Original Music Composer)
- Closed Ward ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ino Tadataka: Meridian Dreams ... (Music)
2000
- Colorful ... (Music)
- Boy's Choir ... (Original Music Composer)
1998
- Murder on D Street ... (Original Music Composer)
1997
- The Eel ... (Original Music Composer)
- Moonlight Serenade ... (Original Music Composer)
1993
- Madadayo ... (Original Music Composer)
- Paradise of Paradise
1991
- Kimi no na wa ... (Music)
- Rhapsody in August ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Great Shogunate Battle ... (Original Music Composer)
- Dohten ... (Music)
1990
- Dreams ... (Original Music Composer)
- Making of 'Dreams' ... (Music)
- Takeshi: Childhood Days ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sea of Wandering ... (Music)
1989
- Days with Harasu ... (Music)
1988
- Labyrinth Romanesque ... (Original Music Composer)
1986
- Surgical Designs in Flames ... (Original Music Composer)
- Late Night Salute ... (Original Music Composer)
1985
- Gray Sunset ... (Original Music Composer)
1984
- Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection ... (Music)
- MacArthur's Children ... (Original Music Composer)
1983
- The Ballad of Narayama ... (Original Music Composer)
1982
- Eternal Monument ... (Original Music Composer)
- Toge no Gunzo ... (Music)
1981
- Eijanaika ... (Original Music Composer)
1980
- Kagemusha ... (Original Music Composer)
- On-yado Kawasemi ... (Music)
- Fujin no Mon ... (Music)
1979
- Vengeance Is Mine ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rika ... (Music)
1978
- Future Boy Conan ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ōgon no Hibi ... (Music)
1975
- Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees ... (Original Music Composer)
1974
- Dream Island Girl ... (Music)