Riichiro Manabe, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Riichiro Manabe

Japanese composer

Date of Birth: 09-Nov-1924

Date of Death: 29-Jan-2015

Profession: composer, musicologist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Riichiro Manabe (?????, Manabe Riichiro) (November 9, 1924 – January 29, 2015) was a Japanese composer.
He wrote scores for numerous science fiction, horror, and kaiju films, drawing from jazz and dissonant modernism.
His scores, particularly the ones he is most famous for in the 1970s, utilize electric guitar, pipe organ, the piccolo, the keyboard synthesizer, and the vibraslap heavily.