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Taro Iwashiro

Name in Native Language: "岩代太郎" (Japanese/JA)
Composer / Pianist / Record Producer | * 05/01/1965 (58) | Tokyo (Japan)
Taro Iwashiro (岩代 太郎, Iwashiro Tarō, born May 1, 1965, in Tokyo) is a Japanese composer. ()

Taro Iwashiro (岩代 太郎 Iwashiro Tarō) has composed the music for many Japanese television series and films. He has composed for both Red Cliff films, Shinobi: Heart Under Blade, Azumi, The Prince of Tennis, Rurouni Kenshin: The Motion Picture, and the Korean film Memories of Murder. He was also lead composer for the Capcom video game Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny. Iwashiro has often led the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra for his soundtracks, including the 2005 taiga drama Yoshitsune and 2008 film Red Cliff.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Action | Animation

Known for these Movies & Shows

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and ...

Red Cliff

R

2008 | 3.6/5 | 2h 30min
Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
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A Middle-aged Japanese ex-pat journalist investigates child organ trafficking in Thailand and he uncovers a sinister network. In the darkest corners of Thailand, child prostitution and organ sales flo ...

Children of the Dark

Certification unknown

2008 | 3.1/5 | 2h 18min
Drama
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During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases. ...

Memories of Murder

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2003 | 4.0/5 | 2h 11min
Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011 ...

Fukushima 50

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2020 | 3.2/5 | 2h 2min
History, Drama, Action
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Movies with Taro Iwashiro as Crew(43)

Sound/Music2023 Grandson of a Monster
Sound/Original Music Composer2023 The Moon
Sound/Original Music Composer2023 The Village
Sound/Original Music Composer2021 It's a Flickering Life
Sound/Original Music Composer2021 Unlock Your Heart
Sound/Original Music Composer2020 Fukushima 50
Sound/Original Music Composer2019 The Journalist
Sound/Original Music Composer2018 Starlight Promises
Sound/Original Music Composer2017 Manhunt
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 Ken San
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 Museum
Sound/Original Music Composer2015 The Crossing II
Sound/Original Music Composer2015 The Pearls of the Stone Man
Sound/Original Music Composer2014 Kiki's Delivery Service
Sound/Original Music Composer2014 The Crossing
Sound/Original Music Composer2013 Unforgiven
Sound/Original Music Composer2013 A Tale of Samurai Cooking
Sound/Music2012 Tug of War!
Sound/Original Music Composer2012 Our Homeland
Sound/Music2011 Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Sound/Original Music Composer2011 Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: The Sacred Star of Milos
Sound/Original Music Composer2009 No More Cry
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 The Chasing World
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 252: Signal of Life
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 Red Cliff
Sound/Original Music Composer2007 Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky
Sound/Original Music Composer2006 Aogeba Tôtoshi
Sound/Original Music Composer2005 Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Sound/Music2005 Snowy Love Fall in Spring
Sound/Music2005 Dear Hinagon
Sound/Music2004 Blood and Bones
Sound/Music2003 Farewell, Kuro
Sound/Music2003 Azumi
Sound/Original Music Composer2003 Memories of Murder
Sound/Conductor2003 Memories of Murder
Sound/Orchestrator2003 Memories of Murder
Sound/Original Music Composer2002 11'09''01 September 11
Sound/Original Music Composer2000 Another Heaven
Sound/Original Music Composer1998 Ping Pong Bath Station
Sound/Music1997 Rurouni Kenshin: Requiem for the Ishin Patriots
Sound/Original Music Composer1997 The Dog of Flanders
Sound/Music1995 Goodbye for Tomorrow

TV Shows/Series with Taro Iwashiro as Crew(10)

Sound/Original Music Composer2018 A.I.C.O. -Incarnation-
Sound/Music Producer2018 Umamusume: Pretty Derby
Sound/Original Music Composer2017 KADO: The Right Answer
Sound/Original Music Composer2015 The Heroic Legend of Arslan
Sound/Original Music Composer2013 Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
Sound/Music2007 The End of the Wind
Sound/Music2000 Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations
Sound/Music1999 Don't be a cry baby
Sound/Original Music Composer1997 The Perfect Boss
Sound/Original Music Composer1997 Agri

Additional Information

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Full Name: Tarō Iwashiro
Citizenship: Japan
Born: Saturday, 05/01 1965 (May) in Tokyo (Japan) (current age: 58 years + 354 days)
Zodiac sign: Taurus (Chinese zodiac sign: Snake)
Languages: Japanese (JA)
Educated at: Tokyo University of the Arts
Spouses (current/former): Shinobu Matsumoto
Other names for Taro Iwashiro (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Ивасиро Таро"
"Tarou Iwashiro"
"Tarô Iwashiro"
"Tarō Iwashiro"
"岩代 太郎"
"Taroh Iwashiro"
"いわしろ たろう" (Kana/Japanese)
Taro Iwashiro frequently works together with these people:
John Woo (8x, Crew)
Akira Emoto (7x, Actor)
Kazuya Murata (6x, Crew)
Yuzo Asahara (5x, Crew)
Alejandro González Iñárritu (4x, Crew)
Tomorowo Taguchi (4x, Actor)
Nobuo Mizuta (4x, Crew)
Joe Odagiri (4x, Actor)
Michihito Fujii (4x, Crew)
Majiro (4x, Crew)
Mitsunobu Kawamura (4x, Crew)
Yang Zhenyu (4x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:93051, Added: 05/27/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024