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Akira Ifukube
Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan
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 I…
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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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2024
Godzilla Fest 5: Great Monster Battle
Movie Music
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2024
Godzilla: Attack on Tokyo
Movie Music
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2023
Godzilla Minus One
Movie Original Music Composer
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2023
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Movie Music
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2022
Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex
Movie Music
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2022
Fesu Gojira 3: Gaigan Raishū
Movie Music
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2021
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
Movie Music
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2020
Godzilla Appears at Godzilla Fest
Movie Music
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2016
Shin Godzilla
Movie Music
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2010
Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra
Movie Himself
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2009
Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster
Movie Music
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2008
Genius Party Beyond
Movie Music
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2007
Always: Sunset on Third Street 2
Movie Music
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2007
Tetsujin 28: Morning Moon of Midday
Movie Original Music Composer
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2004
Godzilla: Final Wars
Movie Music
- 2001
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2000
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
Movie Music
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1999
Godzilla 2000: Millennium
Movie Music
- 1998
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1995
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
Movie Original Music Composer
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1994
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Movie Music
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1994
Monster Planet of Godzilla
Movie Music
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1993
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
Movie Original Music Composer
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1992
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Movie Original Music Composer
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1991
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Movie Original Music Composer
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1991
Dozoku no ranjo
Movie Original Music Composer
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1986
Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection
Movie Original Music Composer
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1984
Sayonara Jupiter
Movie Original Music Composer
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1984
Godzilla Fantasia
Movie Original Music Composer
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1978
Love and Faith
Movie Original Music Composer
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1977
Bloodthirsty Hawk
Movie Music
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1977
Monsters of the Lost Continent
Movie Original Music Composer
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1977
Godzilla
Movie Music
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1975
Terror of Mechagodzilla
Movie Original Music Composer
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1974
Sandakan No. 8
Movie Original Music Composer
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1974
The Last Samurai
Movie Original Music Composer
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1973
The Human Revolution
Movie Original Music Composer
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1973
Katango's War
Movie Original Music Composer
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1973
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Movie Original Music Composer
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1972
Godzilla vs. Gigan
Movie Music
