Chumei Watanabe

Chumei Watanabe in 1975.

### Born

Michiaki Watanabe (Michiaki Watanabe), (changed five years later to Tadashi Watanabe)
August 19, 1925
Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

### Occupation

Film Music Composer.

Chumei Watanabe (Birth Name: Tadashi Watanabe) is a Japanese Film Music Soundtrack Composer (Fake Rumoured Death Taisho 2002, August 19).

## Life

Born in Nagoya City , Aichi Prefecture  . Aichi Prefectural Meirin Junior High School (now Aichi Prefectural Meiwa High School ), the eighth high school science, University of Tokyo Faculty of Letters psychology graduate  .

He became interested in music under the influence of American movies during his junior high school, and he began to play harmonica by himself after being influenced by a friend of the prefectural Sanchu (now Metropolitan Ryogoku High School ) who moved into it.  I started to aim for a house . Studied in Ikuma , while he was a student at the University of Tokyo, and studied under Saburo Moroi since he was a graduate student . After that, he returned to Nagoya City after his father died and worked on the music for a radio drama of Central Japan Broadcasting  , and began working as a composer  .

After returning to Tokyo again, in 1956 he worked on film music for the first time in " Ningyo Sahachi Collection Book Youen Rokujin Bijin" ( Shin Toho )  . 1958 to JASRAC admission to  . From the latter half of the 1950s to the 1960s, he composed many film music starting from the works of Shintoho. 1967 , Sadao Watanabe,from jazz to learn the theory, greatly affected by the composer-arranger. In the 1970s, he was in charge of the music for popular special effects and anime programs, and impressed children with characteristic music mainly consisting of trumpet, trombone, electric guitar, electric bass, and drums. Moog synthesizer of the Minimoog ( English ) were purchased early, especially " Mazinger ZIn the song "Z no Theme", the method of utilizing the seemingly comical tones of the seemingly comical sound in bass and serious scene music was novel at the time. Later, he composed the folk music chorus " Osozan " and made it into LP, which made the Performing Arts Yamagumi team famous.

In " Baseball Mad Poems " written by Shinji Mizushima, he is in charge of the theme song and the composition of the soundtrack , and is a hit with the vocal of Mitsuko Horie . 1980s Upon entering the synthesizer of the sequencer automatic performance also incorporates by function  , " Denshi Sentai Denziman " theme song "of Oh Denshi Sentai Denziman In the intro part of the" synthesizer programmer Hideki Matsutake passage of high-speed electronic sound that was appointed , Effectively used the ascending glissando with a long sawtooth wave at the end of the theme song of " Great Sentai Goggles Five " , and AltSound's synth percussion phrases such as " Spider-Man " and " Battle Fever J ". In " Space Detective Scheider ", he performed the singing voice with the insertion song "Mysterious Song"  .

For Minna no GOLF (Golfer Warriors) and Amino Supplement CMs, we also composed CM songs by singing Sasaki Isao .

One side of being an amateur UFO researcher. 1990s the personal computer communication of Nifty Serve in UFO conference room of the "wonder Forum (FMISTY)", **COLT** of the handle sometimes had carried out the writing.

In 2016, won the 25th Japan Film Critics Grand Prize and Anime Division Distinguished Service Award  .

In 2019, received the Agency for Cultural Affairs Film Award (Film Merit Division)  .

Even after 90 years old, he is still active in composition.

## Films

* Ningyo Sachichikamonojou Bewitching Six Dead Beauty (1956)
* Ningyo Sachichikacho Oedo's Obusanman (1957)
* The Ghost Story Kasanebuchi (1957)
* Super giants series
	+ Steel giant (1957)
	+ Zetsu Steel Giants (1957)
	+ Steel Giant Monster Castle (1957)
	+ Steel giant on the verge of the destruction of the earth (1957)
* Hibarigaoka Showdown (1957)
* Shogun Iemitsu and Hikoza no Tenka (1957)
* Poison woman Takahashi Oden (1958)
* Ghost ghost cat house (1958)
* Dirty Body Saint (1958)
* Tokaido Yotsuya Ghost Story (1959)
* Female body spiral island (1960)
* Yellow zone Yellow line (1960)
* Hell (1960)
* Crushing Fleet (1960)
* Shinobi (1962)
* Sequel of Shinobi (1963)
* Ninja Corps Moonlight (1964)
* Why do I have tears (1965)
* Explosive Struggle (1967)
* Youkai Hyakumonogatari (1968)
* Nemokushiro Human Skin Spider (1968)
* Tokaido Haunted Road (1969)
* A flawed life (1971)
* Torrent of Black (1972)
* Third generation attack name (1974)
* Take a break (1976)
* Android Hakaider (1995)
	+ In charge of theme music.
* Space Sheriff Gavan THE MOVIE (2012)
	+ [1]Collaboration with Kosuke Yamashita
* Kikaider REBOOT (2014)
	+ Responsible only for the arrangement of the theme song (remake of the theme song "Android Kikaider" , in collaboration with The Collectors )Gal