Known For
Sound
Born
Sep 15, 1943
Place of Birth
Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Credits
55 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
Music
Haruko's Doll
Music
Climbing to Spring
Original Music Composer
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
Music Director
Glory to the Filmmaker!
Original Music Composer
The Ode to Joy
Original Music Composer
Summer of Ubume
Original Music Composer
The Milkwoman
Original Music Composer
Winter Days
Original Music Composer
Spy Sorge
Original Music Composer
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'
Self
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
Self
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Drunken Angel'
Self
Ino Tadataka: Meridian Dreams
Music
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
Original Music Composer
Closed Ward
Original Music Composer
Boy's Choir
Original Music Composer
Colorful
Original Music Composer
Murder on D Street
Original Music Composer
The Eel
Original Music Composer
Moonlight Serenade
Original Music Composer
Paradise of Paradise
Madadayo
Original Music Composer
The Great Shogunate Battle
Original Music Composer
Rhapsody in August
Original Music Composer
Kimi no na wa
Music
Dohten
Music
Sea of Wandering
Original Music Composer
Making of 'Dreams'
Music
Dreams
Original Music Composer
Takeshi: Childhood Days
Original Music Composer
Days with Harasu
Music
Labyrinth Romanesque
Original Music Composer
Zegen
Original Music Composer
Keshin
Music
Late Night Salute
Original Music Composer
Surgical Designs in Flames
Original Music Composer
Gray Sunset
Original Music Composer
Shiawase no Kuni: Aoi Tori Patapata?
Music
MacArthur's Children
Original Music Composer
Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection
Music
The Ballad of Narayama
Original Music Composer
Eternal Monument
Original Music Composer
Toge no Gunzo
Music
Eijanaika
Original Music Composer
On-yado Kawasemi
Music
Kagemusha
Original Music Composer
Fujin no Mon
Music
Vengeance Is Mine
Original Music Composer
Rika
Music