
Takemitsu became a go-to guy for many other major Japanese filmmakers as well, including Masaki Kobayashi ( Harakiri), Akira Kurosawa ( Dodes’ka-den), and Nagisa Oshima ( Empire of Passion) his themes remain some of the most beautiful, spectral music ever written for the screen. “He involved himself so thoroughly in every aspect of a film-script, casting, location shooting, editing, and total sound design”). was influential to Abe, who told Nancy Shields in a 1978 interview. A man of myriad talents, Kb Abe first established himself in the literary world as a novelist, but his reputation rests almost equally on his dramatic works. We also have our fantastic dolls and old-school toys too. The deeply sympathetic working relationship that they discovered on that project resulted in Takemitsu’s providing the haunting, instrumentally jarring themes for virtually all of Teshigahara’s subsequent output (“He was always more than a composer,” Teshigahara would recall. Kb Abe, pen name of Kimifusa Abe, was a Japanese writer, playwright, musician. C / EX - Below average, suitable for enjoying/reading etc rather than for a collection. It wasn’t until a few years later, though, when his friend Hiroshi Teshigahara asked him to score Teshigahara’s short debut film, José Torres (1959), that Takemitsu’s career in movies truly began.

Used good Paperback Condition Good ISBN 10 0834803542 ISBN 13 9780834803541 Seller. Hardin, An Interview with Abé Kobo, Contemporary Literature 15, No. A noted musical avant-gardist in midcentury Japanese intellectual circles, as influenced by jazz as by Debussy, Takemitsu first turned to feature film composing when he was commissioned (along with Masaru Sato) to write the hip, twangy-guitar-inflected score for the Ko Nakahira youth flick Crazed Fruit (1956). Fake Fish: The Theater Of Kobo Abe by Nancy Shields. Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, known to Western listeners predominantly as the man behind the music in such iconic movies as Woman in the Dunes and Ran, was an acclaimed classical composer and music theorist well before he became one of his country’s most reliably brilliant scorers of film.
