Taro Iwashiro

Taro Iwashiro

Nascimento : 1965-05-01, Tokyo, Japan

História

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.

Perfil

Taro Iwashiro

Filmes

The Moon
Original Music Composer
Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened.
O Vilarejo
Original Music Composer
Um jovem precisa trabalhar no aterro sanitário que destruiu a beleza do seu vilarejo, mas tudo o que ele quer é escapar desse destino.
Unlock Your Heart
Original Music Composer
Ai has had a crush forever on her classmate Tatoe. When she finds out that Tatoe is in a secret relationship with another girl, she sets out to sabotage their plans for the future.
It's a Flickering Life
Original Music Composer
The story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of his dreams, surrounded by great directors and famous actors. In this tale of love and friendship spanning a lifetime, the "god of cinema" that Go has worshipped since he was young will transcend time, and work a miracle in the lives of one family.
Fukushima: Ameaça Nuclear
Original Music Composer
Quando a usina nuclear de Fukushima é atingida por um terremoto seguido de um tsunami, a ameaça de explosão é iminente. Mesmo com risco de contaminação, engenheiros arriscam tudo para evitar um desastre de proporções incalculáveis.
The Journalist
Original Music Composer
It is the job of the press to cover corporate crime, government plots and society. It is in this context that young female reporter on the beat Erika rolls up her sleeves and goes to work regarding what seems to be a government cover up. She is dealing with a government bureaucrat called Sugihara. It seems as if a clash is inevitable.
Yakusoku no Nanaya Matsuri
Original Music Composer
Shoma Mihara recebe uma mensagem do seu melhor amigo Atsushi, com quem não fala há muito tempo. "Queres vir ver um festival que eu descobri?" Ansioso com a ideia, Shoma parte para um festival Tanabata numa cidade-fantasma nas montanhas, onde acaba por conhecer uma rapariga chamada Shiori, que também está à procura de alguém. Kanna, a mestre de cerimônias, diz a Shoma: "Acredito que verás o Atsushi até o final do festival." E assim, para encontrá-lo, Shoma e Shiori ajudam a preparar o festival, mas acabam por se envolverem numa série de incidentes bizarros...
Caçadores De Homens
Original Music Composer
Acusado de uma série de crimes que não cometeu, entre eles assaltos, estupros e assassinatos em série, um promotor (Zhang Hanyu), um promotor de justiça decide iniciar uma jornada perigosa: trabalhar sozinho para limpar seu nome e provar sua inocência.
O Serial Killer Mascarado
Original Music Composer
Uma série de assassinatos grotescos que têm ocorrido em dias chuvosos, abalam uma cidade. A única informação sobre o suspeito é que ele usa uma máscara de sapo. E o detetive que investiga o caso encontra-se numa situação delicada, pois ele percebe que sua família é o próximo alvo.
Ken San
Original Music Composer
KEN SAN pieces together the puzzle of the life and legacy of Japan's mythical acting icon, Ken Takakura. Collaborators, friends and family tell intimate stories of Ken's journey: how one man of quiet dignity became a cultural barrier-breaking film star.
Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current
Original Music Composer
Private Detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and Miyuki Ogawa arrive in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. They are interested in a case which involves discovered bodies. The bodies were found drifting in the Seto Inland Sea, where the currents repeat every 6 hours.
The Crossing II
Original Music Composer
A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.
The Pearls of the Stone Man
Original Music Composer
Atsushi and Ryoko are a married coupled. They decide they want to live around nature and move to Biei in Hokkaido, Japan. Atsushi isn't sure what to do with his free time, so Ryoko asks him build a stone wall around their house. Atsushi experiences tragedy, but later gets closer to his estranged daughter, Satoko. Atsushi continues building the stone wall.
The Crossing
Original Music Composer
During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, three couples flee from China to an island of Taiwan.
O Serviço de Entregas da Kiki
Original Music Composer
Kiki é uma menina corajosa e travessa que segue sua tradição maternal de se tornar uma bruxa. Ela só possui um dom de magia, o de voar. Como toda jovem bruxa, aos 12 anos ela deve se aventurar em uma cidade sozinha. Acompanhada por seu gato Jiji, Kiki sai em sua vassoura e chega em uma cidade perto do mar. Ao conhecer novas pessoas e passar por aventuras, Kiki ganha mais confiança e autoconsciência e, com a ajuda de Kiki, o povo percebe que todo mundo possui alguma mágica que lhes dá sua própria personalidade e vitalidade.
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
Original Music Composer
In this love story set in the Edo period, 27-year-old Oharu is a genius in the kitchen. Oharu attracts the attention of the master chef of the Kaga Domain, who arranges for her to marry his son and heir, 24-year-old Yasunobu. But, Yasunobu is cold to his new wife, and he's more interested in swordplay than cookery.
Os Imperdoáveis
Original Music Composer
Remake do filme Os Imperdoáveis, de Clint Eastwood. E um vilarejo, um grupo de cowboys corta o rosto de uma prostituta e não são punidos. Insatisfeitas com a impunidade do grupo e a postura do Xerife da cidade, as prostitutas colocam um preço pela cabeça dos cowboys responsáveis pelo ocorrido. As ofertas atraem para o local dois personagens que mudaram completamente a vida dos habitantes.
Super Fish - An Endless Adventure
Music Director
Since man made the spear one-hundred thousand years ago, the fish have been a surprising role in human history. They've only been known as food for man who have been hungry! How have they changed the history of humans? Here goes the story...
Super Fish - An Endless Adventure
Music
Since man made the spear one-hundred thousand years ago, the fish have been a surprising role in human history. They've only been known as food for man who have been hungry! How have they changed the history of humans? Here goes the story...
Tug of War!
Music
The mayor of Oita wants to improve the image of his city, so he instructs Chiaki - a young woman working for the city's PR department - to form a female tug of war team. Nobuo MIZUTA mixes comedy, drama and a pinch of social criticism to tell a tale of eight women, their everyday struggles and their support for each other.
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Music
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to obey which went against his own personal beliefs. While this infamous attack is a low point in Japanese and US history it wouldn’t have happened if the Japanese government had listened to Yamamoto in 1939 and searched for a more peaceful way to end their war campaign, proving his many ominous presages of the outcomes of the attack to come true.
Fullmetal Alchemist: A Estrela Sagrada de Milos
Original Music Composer
Depois de um misterioso prisioneiro foge da prisão na Cidade Central, começa a tentativa dos irmãos Elric de recapturá-lo. A busca acaba levando-os a Table City, no sudoeste do país de Creta, onde Alphonse resgata uma jovem alquimista chamada Julia do homem que está tentando capturá-la. No meio da luta, eles literalmente caem na casa de Julia, nas favelas de Milos Valley, e, só então, percebem que estão envolvidos na popular rebelião de seu povo.
No More Cry
Original Music Composer
Abandoned by his father as a boy, Yuta grows up as the foster son of a restaurant owner and takes over the restaurant at the owner's death. Cheery, always smiling, always helpful, Yuta is known as Yama-chan, the friend everyone turns to. When Yuta discovers he had a hitherto unknown baby brother, he sets out to track him down. But the baby brother, Yusuke, has grown up to be half of a successful comedy team, the Kinjo Brothers, and Yusuke's professional "brother" has just written a best-selling book about their adventures growing up together. Yuta's appearance on the scene threatens to reveal that the book is a complete fiction and to set all three "brothers" into conflict with each other.
252: Signal of Life
Original Music Composer
At some point in the distant future, a massive, catastrophic earthquake strikes Tokyo, causing the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to rise meteorically and the largest typhoon in recorded Japanese history to sweep toward the city and inundate it with water. The Tokyo Fire Department and its team of crack rescuers swing into action, and shortly after they do, a distress call arises from an underground subway station - with repeated indications of the rescue code, 252 252, and the exclamation "We Have Survivors." It soon becomes apparent that the local rescue squad must attempt to save the survivors, doing so at the expense of their own lives and safety. Written by Nathan Southern
A Batalha dos Três Reinos
Original Music Composer
A história se baseia em eventos dos anos 220 a 280 D.C. e conta uma passagem do Romance dos Três Reinos, livro escrito por volta do ano 1350 por Luo Guanzhong. Nele, os três feudos existentes no território chinês entram em conflito. A batalha climática, que envolveu cerca de um milhão de combatentes, teve de um lado dois senhores, Sun Quan and Liu Bei, derrotando o superior exército invasor de Cao Cao. Pouco tempo depois, a dinastia Han terminou oficialmente e o país foi dividido entre os três reinos. A Batalha dos Três Reinos é a primeira parte de uma saga de mais de quatro horas. O longa ainda possui uma segunda parte.
The Chasing World
Original Music Composer
A teenager is transported to a parallel world where everyone who shares his family name is being hunted down by the dictatorial government.
Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky
Original Music Composer
A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meets there a feisty local girl Ofumi who befriends him as he sets up his shop, Kyo-ya and in spite of the difficulties stemming from cultural differences between the two ancient capitals including the favored taste of tofu itself, they eventually marry and become the owner of a tofu shop on a more respectable street. Behind the rock-solid business of Kyo-ya, their son, Eitaro bears the brunt of other tofu shops' animosity toward Kyo-ya's refusal to comply with Edo's way of running business and starts to frequent a gambling hall run by the mysterious "Boss", which throws the family into a critical situation that threaten to pull them apart...
Aogeba Tôtoshi
Original Music Composer
Mortality and death seen through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi is also grappling with the issue of mortality as he deals with the impending death of his ailing father, who has decided to spend his final days in the family home. As the story progresses, Koichi finds unexpected solace from his grief by letting his troubled student visit and meet with his father in the hopes that he will understand the meaning of life and death.
Snowy Love Fall in Spring
Music
Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two youngsters amongst the aristocracy and rich of early twentieth century Japan.
Shinobi: A Batalha
Original Music Composer
É o ano de 1641, dois clãs ninjas, o da terra de Koga e o de Iga. Ambos são inimigos, mas têm um acordo de não entrar em guerra um com o outro. Os herdeiros dos líderes de ambas vilas se apaixonam sem saber que um é inimigo do outro por causa das tradições dos clãs. Mas um trágico destino espera o casal, é lançada uma maldição sobre a existência das famílias que coloca as duas vilas uma contra a outra. Os melhores ninjas de Koga e Ida são escolhidos para lutar uns contra os outros e Gennosuke Albora, o casal apaixonado, é colocado frente a frente aos inimigos. Por séculos eles vivem em guerras da escuridão, com estranhos poderes e habilidades, vivem somente para batalha, eles são Shinobi.
Making Memories of Murder
Himself
Made in 2004, this extensive documentary chronicles the production and release of Memories of Murder.
Dear Hinagon
Music
Consumido pelo Ódio
Music
Em 1923 Kim Shun-Pei vai da Coreia do Sul para o Japão em busca de melhores condições de trabalho. Uma vida de muito trabalho pesado e discriminação tornam Kim um homem frio e violento, fazendo da vida de sua esposa e filhos um grande sofrimento.
Farewell, Kuro
Music
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at the school and becomes a special friend to everyone.
Azumi
Music
Uma guerra no Japão faz com que o país seja devastado. Desesperado em restaurar a paz, Tokugawa Shogun, líder de um clã, ordena o assassinato de um comandante inimigo. Para realizar a tarefa é selecionada Azumi (Aya Ueto), uma jovem e bonita mulher que foi selecionada ao nascer, juntamente com outros 9 órfãos, para se tornar uma assassina.
Memórias de Um Assassino
Orchestrator
Província de Gynnggi, Coréia do Sul. O corpo de uma jovem brutalmente assassinada é encontrado pela polícia. Dois meses depois, em outro lugar, a brutalidade repete-se. Num outro local onde isso nunca havia acontecido, os policias deparam-se com crimes cometidos por um assassino em série. Então começa uma interessante investigação liderada pelo detetive Park Du-Man.
Memórias de Um Assassino
Conductor
Província de Gynnggi, Coréia do Sul. O corpo de uma jovem brutalmente assassinada é encontrado pela polícia. Dois meses depois, em outro lugar, a brutalidade repete-se. Num outro local onde isso nunca havia acontecido, os policias deparam-se com crimes cometidos por um assassino em série. Então começa uma interessante investigação liderada pelo detetive Park Du-Man.
Memórias de Um Assassino
Original Music Composer
Província de Gynnggi, Coréia do Sul. O corpo de uma jovem brutalmente assassinada é encontrado pela polícia. Dois meses depois, em outro lugar, a brutalidade repete-se. Num outro local onde isso nunca havia acontecido, os policias deparam-se com crimes cometidos por um assassino em série. Então começa uma interessante investigação liderada pelo detetive Park Du-Man.
11'09''01 September 11
Original Music Composer
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Another Heaven
Original Music Composer
A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite literally, everybody is a suspect. Will they bring the terror to an end, or will they become part of it themselves?
Ping Pong Bath Station
Original Music Composer
An unhappy housewife regains her passion for life by taking over a failing bath house.
Samurai X: O Filme
Music
Kenshin se mete em uma briga de marinheiros para ajudar uma garota e conhece Shigure Takimi, e aqui tem início sua nova aventura. Kenshin e seus amigos tentam devolver a sanidade a um homem amargurado pela perda de um grande amigo, Gentatsu, que foi assassinado pelo lendário Hitokiri Battousai. Shigure só pensa em honrar os companheiros que morreram tentando derrubar o corrompido governo Meiji, e parece não se importar em sacrificar os jovens que o seguem, na tentativa de assassinar um emissário do governo inglês, para causar uma crise internacional e provocar um golpe de estado. Shigure acaba confrontando-se com Kenshin, e torna-se juiz, júri e executor, logo que vê o mesmo golpe que matou Gentatsu surgindo das mãos de Kenshin. Numa seqüência final de lutas surge todo um sentimento de arrependimento e carinho, que faz com que ambos perdoem-se, mas outros planos estão esperando os dois novos companheiros.
The Dog of Flanders
Original Music Composer
Poor but happy, young Nello and his grandfather live alone, delivering milk as a livelihood, in the outskirts of Antwerp, a city in Flanders (the Flemish or Dutch-speaking part of modern-day Belgium). They discover a beaten dog (a Bouvier, a large sturdy dog native to Flanders) and adopt it and nurse it back to health, naming it Patrasche, the middle name of Nello's mother Mary, who died when Nello was very young. Nello's mother was a talented artist, and like his mother, he delights in drawing, and his friend Aloise is his model and greatest fan and supporter.
The Bridge Club
Original Music Composer
Tatsuo was leading a peaceful suburban life with his wife and daughter. But an ex-girlfriend attends his bridge club. Then Haruo, an old friend, appears. He is being chased by loan sharks and needs shelter. Haruo overstays his welcome and family relations become strained.
Goodbye for Tomorrow
Music
People from all walks of life (a high-school student, a middle-aged businessman, a yakuza chief, etc.) all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening. At the stroke of midnight, the lost ship emerges from the sea and they are given a brief time to say their final words to their lost loved ones, before the deceased must once again board the ship and it sinks back into the depths.