Shunsuke Kikuchi

Shunsuke Kikuchi
菊池 俊輔
Born	(1931-11-01)1 November 1931 Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan
Died	24 April 2021(2021-04-24) (aged 89) Tokyo, Japan
Alma mater	Nihon University
Occupation(s)	Composer and arranger
Years active	1961–2017

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.