Chu Ishikawa
- December 21, 2017
- 51 years
About Chu Ishikawa
Chu Ishikawa, 51, Japanese composer (Tetsuo: The Iron Man).
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|Chu Ishikawa (石川忠, Ishikawa Chū; 6 February 1966 – 21 December 2017) was a Japanese composer and musician, best known for creating the soundtracks of many films by Shinya Tsukamoto and Takashi Miike. He also founded industrial music groups Der Eisenrost and Zeitlich Vergelter.
Soundtracks
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
- Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
- Tokyo Fist (1995)
- Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)
- Bullet Ballet (1998)
- Gemini (1999)
- Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000)
- A Snake of June (2002)
- Vital (2004)
- Haze (2005)
- Nightmare Detective (2006)
- Nightmare Detective 2 (2008)
- Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2010)
- Kotoko (2011)
- Fires on the Plain (2014)
- Killing (2018) (posthumous)
- Shadow Of Fire (2023) (posthumous)
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