Brand New Day

A. K.

The Face of Another

A Slippage in Five Movements

100 Years of Japanese Cinema

Spiritual Voices

Sharaku

Rising Sun

Dream Window: Reflections on the Japanese Garden

Basara: The Princess Goh

The Inland Sea

Rikyu

Black Rain

Wuthering Heights

An Early Autumn

Gonza the Spearman

The Empty Table

Fire Festival

Antonio Gaudí

Lanterns on Blue Waters

Tokyo Trial

Prophecy

Rennyo and His Mother

The Minamata Mural

Yumechiyo Nikki

Ki or Breathing

The Lovers' Exile

An Ocean to Cross

House of Flames

The Japanese Part 3: Farm Song

Glowing Autumn

Empire of Passion

Ballad of Orin

The Fossil

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

Himiko

The Petrified Forest

Time Within Memory

Dear Summer Sister

Summer Soldiers

Silence

Inn of Evil

The Ceremony

Dodes'ka-den

The Man Who Left His Will on Film

Bullet Wound

Double Suicide

Kyoto

Hymn to a Tired Man

The Man Without a Map

Nanami: The Inferno of First Love

Two Hearts in the Rain

Two in the Shadow

Samurai Rebellion

Clouds at Sunset

Once a Rainy Day

Captive's Island

The Kii River

The Koumiko Mystery

Beast Alley

Illusion of Blood

Samurai Spy

The Song of the Bwana Toshi

Jose Torres II

With Beauty and Sorrow

Kwaidan

Car Thieves

The Call of Flesh

Assassination

Escape from Japan

Our Happiness Alone

Children Hand in Hand

Pale Flower

Woman in the Dunes

Alone Across the Pacific

She and He

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

The Body

A Flame at the Pier

Harakiri

Human Zoo

Pitfall

Love at Twenty

The Inheritance

A Full Life

Atami Blues

Bad Boys

Women of Tokyo

Youth in Fury

Jose Torres

When It Rains, It Pours

Crazed Fruit

Silver Wheel

Tōru Takemitsu (武満 徹, pronounced [takeꜜmitsɯ̥ toːɾɯ]; 8 October 1930 – 20 February 1996) was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu was admired for the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He is known for combining elements of oriental and occidental philosophy and for fusing sound with silence and tradition with innovation.
He composed several hundred independent works of music, scored more than ninety films and published twenty books. He was also a founding member of the Jikken Kōbō (Experimental Workshop) in Japan, a group of avant-garde artists who distanced themselves from academia and whose collaborative work is often regarded among the most influential of the 20th century.
His 1957 Requiem for string orchestra attracted international attention, led to several commissions from across the world and established his reputation as the leading 20th-century Japanese composer. He was the recipient of numerous awards and honours and the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award is named after him.



Toru Takemitsu

Toru Takemitsu

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Brand New Day

A. K.

The Face of Another