HITC. Close family members gathered to remember Kikuchi at a funeral in his homeland, local media outlet Oricon News reported.Born in 1931 in Hirosaki, Kikuchi attended the Nihon University College of Art.
He started his composing career in 1961. Over the course of his career, Kikuchi worked on dozens of TV shows and movies. His compositions appeared in the extremely popular shows “Doraemon,” “Dragon Ball” and its many spinoffs and the “Red Dead Wagon” TV movies, according to his IMDB profile.
In 1983, Kikuchi was nominated for Japan Academy Prizes for “Best Musical Score” for his work on “Yûkai hôdô” (“To Trap a Kidnapper”) and “Seishun no mon: Jiritsu hen” (“The Gate of Youth Part 2”).
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