About

Known credits:
50
Birthday:
1943-09-15
Place of birth:
Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Website:
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Shinichirô Ikebe

Overview

Shin'ichirō Ikebe (Japanese: 池辺 晋一郎 Ikebe Shin'ichirō; 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

Acting
2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' Actor Self 59
Average
2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Drunken Angel' Actor Self N/A
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2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha' Actor Self 59
Average
1993 Paradise of Paradise Actor N/A
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Sound
2021 Nobutora - Samurai Tiger Sound Music N/A
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2018 Haruko's Doll Sound Music N/A
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2014 Climbing to Spring Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2009 The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2007 Glory to the Filmmaker! Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2006 The Ode to Joy Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2005 Summer of Ubume Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2005 The Milkwoman Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2003 Winter Days Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2003 Spy Sorge Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2001 Ino Tadataka: Meridian dreams Sound Music N/A
N/A
2001 Warm Water Under a Red Bridge Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2001 Closed Ward Sound Original Music Composer N/A
N/A
2000 Boy's Choir Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1998 Murder on D Street Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1997 The Eel Sound Original Music Composer 60
Fair
1997 Moonlight Serenade Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1993 Paradise of Paradise Sound Original Music Composer N/A
N/A
1993 Madadayo Sound Original Music Composer 61
Fair
1991 Rhapsody in August Sound Original Music Composer 61
Fair
1991 Kimi no na wa Sound Music N/A
N/A
1991 Dohten Sound Music N/A
N/A
1990 Making of 'Dreams' Sound Music 59
Average
1990 Dreams Sound Original Music Composer 67
Fair
1990 DREAMS Sound Original Music Composer 72
Good
1990 Takeshi: Childhood Days Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1989 Days with Harasu Sound Music N/A
N/A
1988 Labyrinth Romanesque Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1987 Zegen Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1987 Keshin Sound Music N/A
N/A
1986 Surgical Designs in Flames Sound Original Music Composer N/A
N/A
1985 Gray Sunset Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1984 MacArthur's Children Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1984 Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection Sound Music 59
Average
1983 The Ballad of Narayama Sound Original Music Composer 62
Fair
1982 Eternal Monument Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1982 Toge no Gunzo Sound Music N/A
N/A
1981 Why Not? Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1980 Kagemusha Sound Original Music Composer 69
Fair
1980 Fujin no Mon Sound Music 69
Fair
1979 Future Boy Conan Sound Music 59
Average
1979 Vengeance Is Mine Sound Original Music Composer 62
Fair
1978 Future Boy Conan Sound Music 80
Very good
1978 Ōgon no Hibi Sound Music N/A
N/A
1975 Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1974 Dream Island Girl Sound Music 59
Average