Akira Ifukube
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Born 1914-05-31
Died 2006-02-06
Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan
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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.
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Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla
Shin Godzilla
Godzilla: Final Wars
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Godzilla 2000: Millennium
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Invasion of Astro-Monster
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
Mothra vs. Godzilla
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
Destroy All Monsters
The War of the Gargantuas
Terror of Mechagodzilla
Rodan
Life of a Woman
Sandakan No. 8
Frankenstein Conquers the World
Space Amoeba
King Kong Escapes
Godzilla
Chûshingura
The Three Treasures
The Tale of Zatoichi
Godzilla vs. Gigan
Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
Varan the Unbelievable
13 Assassins
The Burmese Harp
Always: Sunset on Third Street 2
The Mysterians
Atragon
Anatahan
Rodan! The Flying Monster
The President and the Shopgirl
Miyamoto Musashi
The Snow Woman
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
Dogora
Kuro-uma no danshichi
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Battle in Outer Space
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
Furisode kyōjo
Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex
Before Dawn
Zoku bakurō ichidai
Sayonara Jupiter
Will to Conquer
Zatoichi Challenged
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
Wandering Shore
Acting
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