Tōru Takemitsu
Sound · 1930 – 1996 · Tokyo, Japan
Toru Takemitsu was a Japanese composer. He composed several hundred independent works of music, scored more than ninety films and published twenty books.
Movies4
Movie7.8DramaScience FictionA businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality and causing him to question his identity.
Movie6.3DocumentaryAn intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
A. K.
1985 · 40 votes
- Movie7.0MusicDocumentary
Japan, 1986. At the tail end of the world tour promoting their latest album Revenge, Eurythmics tops the charts. Between concerts, pop duo Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart survey Japan's cultural soundscape with the help of Conny Plank: A world of sounds both brutally technological and highly refined by tradition.
Brand New Day
1987 · 2 votes
Movie8.0DocumentaryExquisite exploration of landscape and Toru Takemitsu's music for a Japanese moss garden.
Dream Window: Reflections on the Japanese Garden
1992 · 1 votes