Biography
Toshirō Mayuzumi (Japanese: 黛敏郎) (20 February 1929, Yokohama – 10 April 1997, Kawasaki) was a Japanese composer known for his implementation of avant-garde instrumentation alongside traditional Japanese musical techniques. His works drew inspiration from a variety of sources ranging from jazz to Balinese music, and he was considered a pioneer in the realm of musique concrète and electronic music (Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica n.d.; Kozinn 1997), being the first artist in his country to explore these techniques (Layne n.d.). In the span of his career, his works included symphonies, ballets, operas, and film scores (Kennedy and Kennedy 2007), and was the recipient of an Otaka prize by the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Purple Medal of Merit (Kirkup 1997).
Sound 164
1990s
- 1995
The Convent
Original Music Composer
- 1993
The Last Dance
Original Music Composer
1970s
- 1978
- 1977
- 1971
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
Original Music Composer
- 1970
Noon and Midnight
Original Music Composer
History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
Original Music Composer
Tiger Child
Original Music Composer
The Summit of Mt. Fuji
Original Music Composer
1960s
- 1969
Safari 5000
Original Music Composer
- 1968
Profound Desires of the Gods
Original Music Composer
The Neon Taiheiki
Original Music Composer
Good-bye Moscow
Original Music Composer
- 1967
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Original Music Composer
A Man Vanishes
Original Music Composer
Juvenile Delinquent: Shout of the Rising Sun
Original Music Composer
- 1966
Asiapol Secret Service
Original Music Composer
The Daphne
Original Music Composer
The Heart of Hiroshima
Original Music Composer
The Pornographers
Original Music Composer
- 1965
The Start of Life
Original Music Composer
The Radish and the Carrot
Original Music Composer
- 1964
Revenge
Original Music Composer
The Eternal Life
Original Music Composer
You Can Succeed, Too
Original Music Composer
Brand of Evil
Original Music Composer
- 1963
Miren
Music
Tale of Scarlet Love
Original Music Composer
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Original Music Composer
Futari dake no toride
Original Music Composer
Bad Girl
Original Music Composer
I Fly for Kicks
Original Music Composer
Sensation Seekers
Original Music Composer
- 1962
Born in Sin
Original Music Composer
Glass-Hearted Johnny
Original Music Composer
The Lucky General
Original Music Composer
Drunkard's Paradise
Original Music Composer
- 1961
The Storm over Arabia
Original Music Composer
A Cat and Dried Bonito Flakes: The Story of a Swindler
Music
A Good Man, A Good Day
Original Music Composer
The Estuary
Original Music Composer
The Big Wave
Original Music Composer
Pigs and Battleships
Original Music Composer
- 1960
The Warped Ones
Original Music Composer
The Dangerous Kiss
Original Music Composer
Jungle Block
Original Music Composer
Irohanihoheto
Original Music Composer
Banana
Music
The Hidden Himalayas
Original Music Composer
Students and Daughters
Original Music Composer
Yakuza Song
Original Music Composer
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Original Music Composer
1950s
- 1959
Pineapple Butai
Original Music Composer
Kiri aru jyoji
Music
My Second Brother
Original Music Composer
The Aristocrat's Stairs
Music
Young Lovers
Original Music Composer
Akatsuki no chiheisen
Original Music Composer
Yujiro in Europe
Original Music Composer
The Beast Shall Die
Original Music Composer
Talented Woman
Original Music Composer
Temptation on Glamour Island
Original Music Composer
- 1958
The Days of Evil Women
Original Music Composer
The Naked General
Music
Conflagration
Original Music Composer
Nishi Ginza Station
Original Music Composer
The Young Beast
Original Music Composer
Gendai Mushuku
Music
Stolen Desire
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Hibi no haishin
Original Music Composer
Woman Unveiled
Original Music Composer
- 1957
But the Flesh is Weak
Original Music Composer
Shūkin ryokō
Original Music Composer
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Original Music Composer
The Eye of Heaven
Music
- 1956
A Brother and His Sister
Music
Karakoram
Original Music Composer
Street of Shame
Original Music Composer
The Balloon
Original Music Composer
- 1955
Youth
Music
Christ in Bronze
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Till We Meet Again
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Ghost Story of Youth
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Burden of Love
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Silver Wheel
Original Music Composer
- 1954
The Cock Crows Twice
Original Music Composer
Women's House
Original Music Composer
The Surf
Original Music Composer
The Pleasures of Vice
Original Music Composer
Mother's First Love
Original Music Composer
Edo no yubae
Original Music Composer
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Original Music Composer
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the Green Grass
Original Music Composer
Love and Duty
Original Music Composer
- 1953
沖縄健児隊
Original Music Composer
Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth
Original Music Composer
The Blue Revolution
Original Music Composer
Mr. Pu
Original Music Composer
Sunflower Girl
Original Music Composer
Yassamossa
Original Music Composer
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
Original Music Composer
- 1952
This Way, That Way
Original Music Composer
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Original Music Composer
The Waves
Original Music Composer
- 1951
Pure White Nights
Original Music Composer
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
Original Music Composer
The Love Letter Trial
Music
Weeping Doll
Original Music Composer
Home Sweet Home
Original Music Composer
- 1950
Acted in 3
1960s
- 1968
The Neon Taiheiki
Movie
- 1962
1950s
- 1953
Mr. Pu
Movie
Appearances1
1970s
- 1971
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
Narrator