Taro Iwashiro
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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Movies (74)
Never Guilty
2026 · Original Music Composer
The Secret Battlefield
2026 · Original Music Composer
One Last Love Letter
2026 · Original Music Composer
Guilty, the AI Said
2026 · Original Music Composer
A Light in the Harbor
2025 · Original Music Composer
YUKIKAZE
2025 · Original Music Composer
The 35-Year Promise
2025 · Music Director
Yasuko, Songs of Days Past
2025 · Original Music Composer
Rude to Love
2024 · Music
Kubi
2023 · Original Music Composer
(Ab)normal Desire
2023 · Music
The Moon
2023 · Original Music Composer
The Village
2023 · Original Music Composer
Grandson of a Monster
2023 · Music
Prior Convictions
2022 · Original Music Composer
Unlock Your Heart
2021 · Original Music Composer
Hito to shigoto
2021 · Original Music Composer
It's a Flickering Life
2021 · Original Music Composer
A Family
2021 · Music
MOTHER
2020 · Original Music Composer
Fukushima: Amenaza nuclear
2020 · Original Music Composer
The Journalist
2019 · Original Music Composer
Starlight Promises
2018 · Original Music Composer
Manhunt
2017 · Original Music Composer
Museum
2016 · Original Music Composer
Ken San
2016 · Original Music Composer
Double Life
2016 · Original Music Composer
Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current
2016 · Original Music Composer
The Crossing II
2015 · Original Music Composer
The Pearls of the Stone Man
2015 · Original Music Composer
The Crossing I
2014 · Original Music Composer
Kiki's Delivery Service
2014 · Original Music Composer
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
2013 · Original Music Composer
Unforgiven
2013 · Original Music Composer
Ask This of Rikyu
2013 · Original Music Composer
Super Fish - An Endless Adventure
2013 · Music, Music Director
Tug of War!
2012 · Music
Our Homeland
2012 · Original Music Composer
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
2011 · Original Music Composer
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos
2011 · Original Music Composer
No More Cry
2009 · Original Music Composer
Castle Under Fiery Skies
2009 · Original Music Composer
Battle Under Orion
2009 · Original Music Composer
Red Cliff II
2009 · Original Music Composer
252: Signal of Life
2008 · Original Music Composer
Children of the Dark
2008 · Original Music Composer
Red Cliff
2008 · Original Music Composer
The Chasing World
2008 · Original Music Composer
Double Trouble
2008 · Original Music Composer
Maiko Haaaan!!!
2007 · Original Music Composer
Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky
2007 · Original Music Composer
Hear the Sound of Life
2006 · Music
Aogeba Tôtoshi
2006 · Original Music Composer
Diary of June
2005 · Original Music Composer
Spring Snow
2005 · Music, Original Music Composer
The Samurai I Loved
2005 · Original Music Composer
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
2005 · Original Music Composer
Making Memories of Murder
2005 · Self
Dear Hinagon
2005 · Music
Winter Game
2005 · Original Music Composer
Kaikyo wo Wataru Violin
2004 · Original Music Composer
Blood and Bones
2004 · Original Music Composer
Free and Easy 14
2003 · Original Music Composer
Farewell, Kuro
2003 · Music, Music Producer
Azumi
2003 · Original Music Composer
Memories of Murder
2003 · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
September 11
2002 · Original Music Composer
Another Heaven
2000 · Original Music Composer
Autumn Blossoms
1999 · Original Music Composer
Ping Pong Bath Station
1998 · Original Music Composer
Samurai X: The Motion Picture
1997 · Original Music Composer
The Dog of Flanders
1997 · Original Music Composer
The Bridge Club
1996 · Original Music Composer
Goodbye for Tomorrow
1995 · Original Music Composer
TV shows (28)
Imaginary Ritual
2023 · Music
The Journalist
2022 · Original Music Composer
Zenkamono
2021 · Original Music Composer
Umamusume: Pretty Derby
2018 · Music Producer
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation-
2018 · Original Music Composer
KADO: The Right Answer
2017 · Original Music Composer
The Heroic Legend of Arslan
2015 · Original Music Composer
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
2013 · Original Music Composer
知られざる大英博物館
2012 · Music
Super Fish - An Endless Adventure
2012 · Original Music Composer
The End of the Wind
2007 · Music
Proof of the Man
2004 · Original Music Composer
ぼくの魔法使い
2003 · Original Music Composer
Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations
2000 · Music
Ice World
1999 · Creator
Living Alone
1999 · Music
Don't be a cry baby
1999 · Original Music Composer
Who Do You Think You Are?
1998 · Original Music Composer
With Love
1998 · Original Music Composer
Children of Promise
1997 · Original Music Composer
The Perfect Boss
1997 · Original Music Composer
Agri
1997 · Original Music Composer
Love Vacance
1997 · Music
Midori no Makibaō
1996 · Original Music Composer
Hakusen Nagashi
1996 · Original Music Composer
Sashow The Last Case
1995 · Original Music Composer
H2
1995 · Original Music Composer
Koi mo ni Dome Nara
1995 · Original Music Composer