Shunsuke Kikuchi, born on November 1, 1931, was a Japanese composer active from the early 1960s until 2017 who specialized in incidental music for television and film, working mainly on tokusatsu, anime, action films, jidaigeki, and dramas. He graduated from the Nihon University College of Art and debuted with the 1961 film The Eighth Enemy, and the Tō-Ō Nippō Press credited the contrast between his heroic opening and melancholic closing themes for the 1969 Tiger Mask anime with changing Japanese anime music. He wrote Urami Bushi, sung by Meiko Kaji for the Female Convict Scorpion films and later used in Kill Bill, scored UFO Robo Grendizer and Divine Demon-Dragon Gaiking, and composed Doraemon no Uta in 1979. His long-running credits also include Kamen Rider, Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, Abarenbō Shōgun, and the TBS series Key Hunter and G-Men '75. He died on April 24, 2021.
