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Shunsuke Kikuchi

1931 - 2021

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Shunsuke Kikuchi (菊池 俊輔, Kikuchi Shunsuke; 1 November 1931 – 24 April 2021) was a Japanese composer who was active from the early 1960s until 2017. He specialized in incidental music for media such as television and film. Kikuchi was regarded as one of Japan's most highly demanded film and TV composers, working principally on tokusatsu and anime productions, and also popular action films, jidaigeki, and television dramas. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shunsuke Kikuchi is the 846th most popular composer (down from 682nd in 2019), the 952nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 761st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Shunsuke Kikuchi ranks 846 out of 1,451. Before him are Elliott Carter, Nicolas Gombert, Cesare Pugni, Heino Eller, Edmond Audran, and István Kertész. After him are Koichi Sugiyama, Aimeric de Peguilhan, Temistocle Solera, Alfred Bruneau, Mateo Flecha, and Alexander Spendiaryan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Shunsuke Kikuchi ranks 231. Before him are Nick Bollettieri, Ann E. Todd, Mukaghali Makatayev, E. L. Doctorow, Krzysztof Komeda, and Jean-Jacques Marcel. After him are Koichi Sugiyama, Janosch, Ingvar Wixell, Boris Pankin, Robert Morris, and Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani. Among people deceased in 2021, Shunsuke Kikuchi ranks 245. Before him are Roberto Calasso, Alan Lancaster, B. J. Thomas, Yegor Ligachyov, Yukhym Zvyahilsky, and Joey Jordison. After him are Koichi Sugiyama, Ursula Happe, Yitzhak Arad, Leon Spinks, José Freire Falcão, and John Miles.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shunsuke Kikuchi ranks 952 out of 6,245. Before him are Kazuo Saito (1951), Shunsuke Nakamura (1978), Shigeru Umebayashi (1951), Yoshitomo Nara (1959), Hitoshi Igarashi (1947), and Hide (1964). After him are Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Nakayama Yoshiko (1836), Peter Shirayanagi (1928), Oku Yasukata (1847), Kuniharu Nakamoto (1959), and Haruomi Hosono (1947).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Shunsuke Kikuchi ranks 7. Before him are Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), Ichirou Mizuki (1948), Toru Takemitsu (1930), Miki Matsubara (1959), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), and Nobuo Uematsu (1959). After him are Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Keiko Abe (1937), Kenji Kawai (1957), Akira Ifukube (1914), Koji Kondo (1961), and Yasushi Akutagawa (1925).

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