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- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Shunsuke Kikuchi is a Japanese composer, specializing in film scores and incidental music for films and television shows. He has been active in the industry since the early 1960s.
Kikuchi is primarily known as the composer of Tokusatsu films (live-action fantasy, science fiction, and horror films), anime films, action films, and Jidaigeki (period drama films). He has worked for various companies, but his music often appears in productions by the Toei Company. He was the main composer for the "Dragon Ball" and "Dragon Ball Z" television series and related films. Due to his association with long-running series, his music was often thought to guarantee success.
He composed the song "Urami Bushi" for the women-in-prison film "Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion". The song is better known to Western audiences for its inclusion in the soundtrack of "Kill Bill".- Jirô Ohkawara was born on 14 July 1978 in Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan. He is an actor and writer, known for Kamen Rider Super Movie War Genesis: Kamen Rider vs. Kamen Rider Ghost & Drive (2015), Toki wo kakeruna, Koibito-tachi (2023) and Out (2023).
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Tomoko Aran is a pop singer and lyricist. Aran got her start writing music at the age of 19, later making her singing debut in 1981 with the single "Kanashiki Vaudevillian." She released nine albums for Warner Bros. Records between 1981 and 1990, and was largely known for her work in the City Pop genre. Aran later joined Oda Tetsurou's supergroup Nagisa no All Stars from 1986 to 1989, and then again in 2006.
In the 90's, Aran primarily focused on writing lyrics for others artists, most notably for Being Inc. artists B'z and TUBE. For a while, she was married to Being's president Nagato Daiko.- Cinematographer
- Director
- Actor
Masaki Tamura was born in 1939 in Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Farewell to the Land (1982), Fire Festival (1985) and Suzaku (1997). He died on 23 May 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.- Utawaka Katsura was born on 6 March 1968 in Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan. He is a writer and actor, known for The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) and Rakugo tennyo Oyui (2006).
- Kanji Wakanohana was born on 16 March 1928 in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. He died on 1 December 2010 in Tokyo, Japan.
