was a Japanese composer, mainly known for his

film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to e ...

s. Born in Okayama Prefecture, he graduated from the Arts Department of

Nihon University , abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School (currently the Department of Law), was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice (Japan), Minister of Justice, in 1889. ...

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...

. He died on November 25, 2013 of

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Filmography (selection)

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Three Outlaw Samurai is a 1964 Japanese '' chambara'' film directed and co-written by Hideo Gosha in his feature-length debut. The film is an origin-story offshoot of Gosha's 1963 Japanese television series of the same name, with the same lead actors, Tetsuro Tamb ...

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The Magic Serpent is a 1966 ''kaiju'' film directed by Tetsuya Yamanochi and produced and distributed by Toei Company. Plot The Oumi Kingdom, ruled peacefully by Lord Ogata (Shinichiro Hayashi), was raided by his corrupt general Daijo Yuki (Bin Amatsu), who was ...

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The Green Slime is a 1968 tokusatsu science fiction film directed by Kinji Fukasaku and produced by Walter Manley and Ivan Reiner. It was written by William Finger, Tom Rowe and Charles Sinclair from a story by Reiner. The film was shot in Japan with a Japane ...

'' (1968) *'' Wandering Ginza Butterfly'' (1972) *'' Street Mobster'' (1972) *'' Girl Boss Guerilla'' (1972) *'' Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler'' (1972) *'' Bodyguard Kiba'' (1973) *'' Bodigaado Kiba: Hissatsu sankaku tobi'' (1973) *''

Battles Without Honor and Humanity , also known in the West as ''The Yakuza Papers'', is a Japanese yakuza film series produced by Toei Company. Inspired by a series of magazine articles by journalist Kōichi Iiboshi that are based on memoirs originally written by real-life yak ...

'' (1973) *'' Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Hiroshima Deathmatch'' (1973) *'' Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War'' (1973) *'' Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics'' (1974) *''

The Street Fighter ''The Street Fighter'' (Japanese: ザ • ストリート • ファイター, Hepburn: Za Sutorīto Faitā) is a 1974 Japanese martial arts film produced by Toei Company Ltd., originally released in Japan as . It was released in the US by New L ...

'' (1974) *'' Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode'' (1974) *'' New Battles Without Honor and Humanity'' (1974) *'' Graveyard of Honor'' (1975) *'' New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head'' (1975) *'' New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Last Days of the Boss'' (1976) *''

Hokuriku Proxy War is a 1977 film directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Sonny Chiba and Hiroki Matsukata. Plot Kawada Noboru is a peasant from Mikuni who becomes a yakuza in the Tomiyasu Group in Fukui. He holds a letter from his boss Mr. Yasuhara promising t ...

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The War in Space ''The War in Space'', released in Japan as , is a tokusatsu science fiction film produced and released by Toho Studios in 1977. Plot In Autumn of the year 1988, contact with Space Station Terra is lost while sightings of UFOs are being reported ...

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Shogun's Samurai ''Shogun's Samurai'', known in Japan as , is a 1978 Japanese historical martial arts period film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The film is the first of two period films by Fukasaku starring Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba as Jūbei Mitsuyoshi Yagyū, the ...

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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron is a 1978 Japanese film directed by Hideo Gosha. Based on the novel ''Kumokiri Nizaemon'' written by Shōtarō Ikenami. Cast *Tatsuya Nakadai as Kumokiri Nizaemon *Shima Iwashita as Chiyo *Kōshirō Matsumoto as Shikubu Abe * Takashi Yamaguchi a ...

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The Fall of Ako Castle is a 1978 Japanese historical martial arts period film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It depicts the story of the forty-seven Ronin (''Chūshingura''). The film is one of a series of period films by Fukasaku starring Yorozuya Kinnosuke, including ...

'' (1978)

TV dramas

*'' Saru No Gundan'' (1974) *'' Pro-Wres no Hoshi Aztecaser'' (1976) *''

Dinosaur War Izenborg is a Japanese television program produced by Tsuburaya Productions that aired from 1977 to 1978 on TV Tokyo. It combined Tsuburaya's trademark suitmation tokusatsu techniques with anime. The show ran for 39 episodes. Plot Dinosaurs reappea ...

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Hana no Asuka-gumi! is a Japanese manga by Satosumi Takaguchi serialized in '' Monthly Asuka''. It was adapted into a television drama series, two live action films, two OVAs and two drama CDs. It is one of the series with delinquent girls ('' sukeb ...

'' (1988)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tsushima, Toshiaki 1936 births 2013 deaths Japanese film score composers Japanese male film score composers