1. Shunsuke Kikuchi was a Japanese composer who was active from the early 1960s until 2017.
12 Facts About Shunsuke Kikuchi
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Shunsuke Kikuchi specialized in incidental music for media such as television and film.
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Shunsuke Kikuchi was born on 1 November 1931 in the city of Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture.
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Shunsuke Kikuchi graduated from Aomori Prefectural Hirosaki Technical High School, specializing in mechanics.
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In 1976, Shunsuke Kikuchi composed the music for Divine Demon-Dragon Gaiking ; in 1979 composed "Doraemon no Uta", the theme song of the Doraemon anime, which ran on TV for 26 years.
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Shunsuke Kikuchi ceased composing music in 2017, when he stated that he was taking a break to be treated for an illness.
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Shunsuke Kikuchi died while being treated for pneumonia in a hospital in Tokyo on 24 April 2021.
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In 1983 Shunsuke Kikuchi was nominated for the Japan Academy Prize for Music for his work on The Gate of Youth: Part 2 and To Trap a Kidnapper.
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Shunsuke Kikuchi received an Award of Merit at the 2013 Tokyo Anime Awards.
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Shunsuke Kikuchi has won several annual awards from the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers based on the royalties he earned from his works in the previous year.
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Shunsuke Kikuchi won the International Award, which is based on foreign income, in 1983,1989,2008,2010,2012,2015,2016,2018, and 2019.
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Shunsuke Kikuchi came in second in overall royalties in 2004.