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Akira Ifukube
Composer, Actor, Additional Credits
Born May 31, 1914Died February 6, 2006 (91 years)
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.
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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.
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Akira Ifukube Filmography
| 2023 | |
| 2016 | |
| 2009 | |
| 2008 | |
| 2007 | |
| 2004 | |
| 2001 | |
| 2000 | |
| 1999 | |
| 1994 | |
| 1984 | |
| 1984 | |
| 1977 | |
| 1972 | |
| 1962 | |
| 1962 |
| 2010 | Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra · as Himself |
| 2023 | Godzilla Minus One · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | Tetsujin 28: Morning Moon of Midday · as Original Music Composer |
| 1997 | Fukkatsu! Gojira fantaji · as Composer |
| 1995 | Godzilla vs. Destoroyah · as Original Music Composer |
| 1993 | Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II · as Original Music Composer |
| 1992 | Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth · as Original Music Composer |
| 1991 | Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah · as Original Music Composer |
| 1983 | Godzilla vs. Wolfman · as Music Director |
| 1978 | Love and Faith · as Original Music Composer |
| 1975 | Terror of Mechagodzilla · as Original Music Composer |
| 1974 | Sandakan No. 8 · as Original Music Composer |
| 1974 | The Last Samurai · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | The Human Revolution · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | Zatoichi's Conspiracy · as Original Music Composer |
| 1970 | Space Amoeba · as Original Music Composer |
| 1970 | Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | Latitude Zero · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | Devil's Temple · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | Destroy All Monsters · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | The Snow Woman · as Original Music Composer |
| 1967 | Zatoichi Challenged · as Original Music Composer |
| 1967 | Eleven Samurai · as Original Music Composer |
| 1967 | King Kong Escapes · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | Wrath of Daimajin · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Villainy · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | Return of Daimajin · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | The War of the Gargantuas · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | The Betrayal · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | Zatoichi's Vengeance · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | Adventure in Kigan Castle · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | Daimajin · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | Sleepy Eyes of Death: The Mask of the Princess · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | Zatoichi and the Chess Expert · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | Invasion of Astro-Monster · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | Frankenstein vs. Baragon · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | A Chain of Islands · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | Zatoichi's Revenge · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | Aishinagara no wakare · as Composer |
| 1965 | Tokugawa Ieyasu · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | Kojiki taisho · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | Fight, Zatoichi, Fight · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | The Last Woman of Shang · as Composer |
| 1964 | Dogora · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | Shinobi No Mono 4: Siege · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | Mothra vs. Godzilla · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | The Long Death · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | Shikonmado - Dai tatsumaki · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | |
| 1963 | 13 Assassins · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Zatoichi on the Road · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Yôsô · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Zatoichi the Fugitive · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Little Prince and the Eight Headed Dragon · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | A Samurai Never Tells a Lie · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | The Retaliation of Gonza · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | New Tale of Zatoichi · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | Chushingura · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | The Great Wall · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | King Kong vs. Godzilla · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | Killer Whale · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | Chiisakobe · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | The Tale of Zatoichi · as Original Music Composer |
| 1961 | The Conspirator · as Original Music Composer |
| 1961 | Buddha · as Original Music Composer |
| 1961 | Bad Reputation · as Composer |
| 1961 | Miyamoto Musashi · as Original Music Composer |
| 1961 | Daredevil in the Castle · as Original Music Composer |
| 1960 | Hono-o no shiro · as Original Music Composer |
| 1959 | Battle in Outer Space · as Original Music Composer |
| 1959 | The Three Treasures · as Original Music Composer |
| 1959 | Sono kabe o kudake · as Original Music Composer |
| 1959 | Samurai Saga · as Original Music Composer |
| 1959 | A Whistle in My Heart · as Original Music Composer |
| 1959 | The Big Boss · as Original Music Composer |
| 1958 | Varan · as Original Music Composer |
| 1958 | Night Drum · as Music Director |
| 1958 | Yagyû bugeichô: Sôryû hiken · as Original Music Composer |
| 1957 | The Mysterians · as Original Music Composer |
| 1957 | Koroshi ta no wa dare ta · as Original Music Composer |
| 1957 | Yagyû bugeichô · as Original Music Composer |
| 1957 | Godzilla · as Original Music Composer |
| 1957 | An Osaka Story · as Original Music Composer |
| 1956 | Rodan · as Original Music Composer |
| 1956 | Sound in the Mist · as Original Music Composer |
| 1956 | Godzilla: King of the Monsters! · as Original Music Composer |
| 1956 | Darkness at Noon · as Original Music Composer |
| 1956 | The Burmese Harp · as Original Music Composer |
| 1955 | Wolves · as Original Music Composer |
| 1955 | The Maid's Kid · as Original Music Composer |
| 1955 | Ginza no onna · as Original Music Composer |
| 1954 | Godzilla · as Original Music Composer |
| 1954 | Dorodarake no seishun · as Original Music Composer |
| 1954 | The Ditch · as Original Music Composer |
| 1953 | Hiroshima · as Original Music Composer |
| 1953 | Anatahan · as Original Music Composer |
| 1953 | Epitome · as Original Music Composer |
| 1952 | Children of Hiroshima · as Original Music Composer |
| 1951 | Genji monogatari · as Original Music Composer |
| 1951 | Nusumareta koi · as Original Music Composer |
| 1951 | Clothes of Deception · as Original Music Composer |
| 1951 | Beyond Love and Hate · as Original Music Composer |
| 1950 | Tenya wanya · as Original Music Composer |
| 1950 | Listen to the Voices of the Sea · as Original Music Composer |
| 1950 | White Beast · as Original Music Composer |
| 1950 | Heat and Mud · as Original Music Composer |
| 1949 | Nijiotoko · as Original Music Composer |
| 1949 | Jakoman and Tetsu · as Original Music Composer |
| 1949 | The Quiet Duel · as Original Music Composer |
| 1948 | Taifuken no onna · as Original Music Composer |
| 1947 | Snow Trail · as Original Music Composer |