Known For
Sound
Born
May 31, 1914
Died
Feb 06, 2006
Place of Birth
Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan
Credits
237 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Godzilla Fest 5: Great Monster Battle
Music
Godzilla: Attack on Tokyo
Music
Godzilla Minus One
Original Music Composer
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Music
Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex
Music
Fesu Gojira 3: Gaigan Raishū
Music
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
Music
Godzilla Appears at Godzilla Fest
Music
Shin Godzilla
Music
Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra
Himself
Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster
Music
Genius Party Beyond
Music
Always: Sunset on Third Street 2
Music
Tetsujin 28: Morning Moon of Midday
Original Music Composer
Godzilla: Final Wars
Music
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Music
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
Music
Godzilla 2000: Millennium
Music
Godzilla, King of the Monsters
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
Original Music Composer
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Music
Monster Planet of Godzilla
Music
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
Original Music Composer
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Original Music Composer
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Original Music Composer
Dozoku no ranjo
Original Music Composer
Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection
Original Music Composer
Sayonara Jupiter
Original Music Composer
Godzilla Fantasia
Original Music Composer
Love and Faith
Original Music Composer
Bloodthirsty Hawk
Music
Monsters of the Lost Continent
Original Music Composer
Godzilla
Music
Terror of Mechagodzilla
Original Music Composer
Sandakan No. 8
Original Music Composer
The Last Samurai
Original Music Composer
The Human Revolution
Original Music Composer
Katango's War
Original Music Composer
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Original Music Composer
Godzilla vs. Gigan
Music
Wolfman vs. Baragon
Original Music Composer
Will to Conquer
Original Music Composer
Space Amoeba
Original Music Composer
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
Original Music Composer
Latitude Zero
Original Music Composer
Devil's Temple
Original Music Composer
Young Challengers
Original Music Composer
Destroy All Monsters
Original Music Composer
Kawachi fūten zoku
Original Music Composer
The Snow Woman
Original Music Composer