{{short description|Japanese composer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Noboru Itō | image = | caption = | occupation = Composer | native_name = 伊藤昇 | birth_date = {{birth date|1903|1|31|df=yes}} | birth_place = Matsumoto, Japan | death_date = {{death date and age|1993|2|7|1903|1|31|df=yes}} | death_place = }} {{nihongo|'''Noboru Itō'''|伊藤昇|Itō Noboru|31 January 1903 &ndash; 7 February 1993}} was a Japanese composer who wrote experimental pieces for, among others, piano, chamber orchestra, and ballet suites.<ref name="kotobank">{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E4%BC%8A%E8%97%A4%20%E6%98%87-1638748 |title=伊藤昇 |language=ja |website=Kotobank |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref> His work was part of the Art competitions at the 1936 Summer Olympics.<ref name="olympedia">{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/920956 |title=Noboru Ito |work=Olympedia |access-date=13 August 2020}}</ref> During the 1930s and 1940s, he also wrote the music scores for films produced by the P.C.L. film studios and its successor, the Toho film studios,<ref name="kotobank" /><ref name="jmdb">{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0031200.htm |title=伊藤昇 |website=Japanese Movie Database |language=ja |access-date=19 June 2023}}</ref> including early works by directors Mikio Naruse and Satsuo Yamamoto.<ref name="kinenote">{{cite web|url=http://www.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/person.aspx?person_id=123616 |title=伊藤昇 |language=ja |website=Kinenote |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>

==Film music (selected)== * 1935: ''The Actress and the Poet'' * 1935: ''Wife! Be Like a Rose!'' * 1935: ''The Girl in the Rumor'' * 1936: ''Morning's Tree-Lined Street'' * 1937: ''Ojōsan'' * 1937: ''Haha no kyoku'' * 1943: ''Momotarō no umiwashi'' * 1946: ''Those Who Make Tomorrow''

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://tokyo-ondai-lib.jp/collection/nipponica/trackcat/%e4%bc%8a%e8%97%a4%e6%98%87/ Compositions by Itō in the Tokyo College of Music Library]

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ito, Noboru}} Category:1903 births Category:1993 deaths Category:Art competitors at the 1936 Summer Olympics Category:Musicians from Matsumoto, Nagano Category:20th-century Japanese male composers Category:20th-century Japanese composers {{Japan-composer-stub}}