Akira Ifukube
Biography
Akira Ifukube (伊福部 昭 Ifukube Akira, 31 May 1914 – 8 February 2006) was a Japanese composer, best known for his works on the film scores of the Godzilla movies since 1954. Akira Ifukube was born on 31 May 1914 in Kushiro, Japan as the third son of a police officer Toshimitsu Ifukube, also the origins of this family can be traced back to at least the 7th century with the birth of Ifukibe-no-Tokotarihime. He was strongly influenced by the Ainu music as he spent his childhood (from age of 9 to 12) in Otofuke near Obihiro, where was with a mixed population of Ainu and Japanese. His first encounter with classical music occurred when attending secondary school in Sapporo city. Ifukube decided to become a composer at the age of 14 after hearing a radio performance of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, also cited the music of Manuel de Falla as a major influence. Ifukube studied forestry at Hokkaido Imperial University in Sapporo and composed in his spare time, which prefigured a line of self-taught Japanese composers. He taught at the Tokyo University of the Arts (formerly Tokyo Music School), during which period he composed his first film score for The End of the Silver Mountains, released in 1947. Over the next fifty years, he would compose more than 250 film scores, the high point of which was his 1954 music for Ishirō Honda's Toho movie, Godzilla. Description above from the Wikipedia article Akira Ifukube , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies (50)
Godzilla: Attack on Tokyo
Music (Sound)
2024
Godzilla Minus One
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2023
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Music (Sound)
2023
Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex
Music (Sound)
2022
Fesu Gojira 3: Gaigan Raishū
Music (Sound)
2022
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
Music (Sound)
2021
Godzilla Appears at Godzilla Fest
Music (Sound)
2020
Shin Godzilla
Music (Sound)
2016
Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra
as Himself
2010
Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster
Music (Sound)
2009
Genius Party Beyond
Music (Sound)
2008
Always: Sunset on Third Street 2
Music (Sound)
2007
Tetsujin 28: Morning Moon of Midday
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2007
Godzilla: Final Wars
Music (Sound)
2004
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Music (Sound)
2001
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
Music (Sound)
2000
Godzilla 2000: Millennium
Music (Sound)
1999
Godzilla, King of the Monsters
1998
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1995
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Music (Sound)
1994
Monster Planet of Godzilla
Music (Sound)
1994
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1993
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1992
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1991
Dozoku no ranjo
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1991
Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection
Music (Sound)
1986
Sayonara Jupiter
Music (Sound)
1984
Godzilla Fantasia
Music (Sound)
1984
Wolfman vs. Godzilla
Music Director (Sound)
1983
Love and Faith
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1978
Godzilla
Music (Sound)
1977
Terror of Mechagodzilla
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1975
Sandakan No. 8
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1974
The Last Samurai
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1974
The Human Revolution
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1973
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1973
Godzilla vs. Gigan
Music (Sound)
1972
Wolfman vs. Baragon
Music Director (Sound)
1972
Will to Conquer
Music (Sound)
1970
Space Amoeba
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1970
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1970
Latitude Zero
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1969
Devil's Temple
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1969
Young Challengers
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1968
Destroy All Monsters
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1968
Kawachi fūten zoku
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1968
The Snow Woman
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1968
Zatoichi Challenged
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1967
Eleven Samurai
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1967
King Kong Escapes
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1967