Akira Ifukube

Akira Ifukube

  • Birthday: 1914-05-31
  • Deathday: 2006-02-06
  • Place of birth: Kushiro, Hokkaidō, Japan
  • Also know as: 伊福部昭

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.

Filmography

Production

Godzilla

1954

As Original Music Composer

Mothra vs. Godzilla

1964

As Original Music Composer

King Kong vs. Godzilla

1962

As Original Music Composer

The War of the Gargantuas

1966

As Original Music Composer

Destroy All Monsters

1968

As Original Music Composer

Frankenstein Conquers the World

1965

As Original Music Composer

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II

1993

As Original Music Composer

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

1995

As Original Music Composer

The Burmese Harp

1956

As Original Music Composer

Daimajin

1966

As Original Music Composer

Wrath of Daimajin

1966

As Original Music Composer

Return of Giant Majin

1966

As Original Music Composer

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

1991

As Original Music Composer

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

1970

As Original Music Composer

Eleven Samurai

1967

As Original Music Composer

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

1964

As Original Music Composer

Battle in Outer Space

1959

As Original Music Composer

The Tale of Zatoichi

1962

As Original Music Composer

King Kong Escapes

1967

As Original Music Composer

Godzilla vs. Mothra

1992

As Original Music Composer

Latitude Zero

1969

As Original Music Composer

The Great Wall

1962

As Original Music Composer

Adventure in Kigan Castle

1966

As Original Music Composer

Devil's Temple

1969

As Original Music Composer

Samurai Saga

1959

As Original Music Composer

Invasion of Astro-Monster

1965

As Original Music Composer

Godzilla

1977

As Original Music Composer

Terror of Mechagodzilla

1975

As Original Music Composer

Zatoichi's Conspiracy

1973

As Original Music Composer

Buddha

1961

As Original Music Composer

47 Ronin

1962

As Original Music Composer

Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu

1965

As Original Music Composer

The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon

1963

As Original Music Composer

A Whistle in My Heart

1959

As Original Music Composer

The Whale God

1962

As Original Music Composer

Love and Faith

1978

As Original Music Composer

Anatahan

1953

As Original Music Composer

The Quiet Duel

1949

As Original Music Composer

A Carpenter and Children

1962

As Original Music Composer

Sandakan No. 8

1974

As Original Music Composer

The Big Boss

1959

As Original Music Composer

The Snow Woman

1968

As Original Music Composer

Listen to the Voices of the Sea

1950

As Original Music Composer

White Beast

1950

As Original Music Composer

The Cannery Boat

1953

As Original Music Composer

Cape Ashizuri

1954

As Original Music Composer

Snow Trail

1947

As Original Music Composer

Night Drum

1958

As Music Director

The Conspirator

1961

As Original Music Composer

The Mysterians

1957

As Original Music Composer

The Rainbow-Colored Flower

1950

As Original Music Composer

Late Night Confession

1949

As Original Music Composer

Life of Geisha

1955

As Original Music Composer

Before Dawn

1953

As Original Music Composer

Shin Godzilla

2016

As Music

The Wolves

1955

As Original Music Composer

Miyamoto Musashi

1961

As Original Music Composer

The Ditch

1954

As Original Music Composer

Children of Hiroshima

1952

As Original Music Composer

Harbor Rats

1957

As Original Music Composer

The Maid's Kid

1955

As Original Music Composer

Godzilla Fantasia

1984

As Music

Varan

1958

As Original Music Composer

Whirlwind

1964

As Original Music Composer

Dogora

1964

As Original Music Composer

A Samurai's Love

1954

As Original Music Composer

Castle of Flames

1960

As Original Music Composer

The Last Samurai

1974

As Original Music Composer

Yagyu Secret Scrolls

1957

As Music

Beyond the Seasonal Wind

1958

As Original Music Composer

Daredevil in the Castle

1961

As Original Music Composer

New Tale of Zatoichi

1963

As Original Music Composer

Zatoichi the Fugitive

1963

As Original Music Composer

13 Assassins

1963

As Original Music Composer

Zatoichi on the Road

1963

As Original Music Composer

A Woman in the Typhoon Area

1948

As Original Music Composer

Darkness at Noon

1956

As Original Music Composer

Sisters of Nishijin

1952

As Original Music Composer

Reminiscence

1953

As Original Music Composer

A Thousand Suspects

1966

As Original Music Composer

Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

1965

As Original Music Composer

Zatoichi's Revenge

1965

As Original Music Composer

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

1964

As Original Music Composer

Zatoichi's Vengeance

1966

As Original Music Composer

Genius Party Beyond

2008

As Music

Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege

1964

As Original Music Composer

Scars of Honor

1960

As Original Music Composer

The Three Treasures

1959

As Music

Shi no machi wo nogarete

1952

As Original Music Composer

Sleepy Eyes of Death 7: The Mask of the Princess

1966

As Original Music Composer

Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy

1966

As Original Music Composer

A Samurai Never Tells a Lie

1963

As Original Music Composer

Love is Lost

1956

As Original Music Composer

Bronze Magician

1963

As Original Music Composer

Space Amoeba

1970

As Original Music Composer

Her Hidden Past

1962

As Music

Atragon

1963

As Original Music Composer

A Chain of Islands

1965

As Original Music Composer

The Betrayal

1966

As Original Music Composer

Senka o koete

1950

As Original Music Composer

Young Challengers

1968

As Original Music Composer

The Long Death

1964

As Original Music Composer

Down Town

1957

As Original Music Composer

Futari dake no hashi

1958

As Original Music Composer

Hiroshima

1953

As Original Music Composer

The Tale of Genji

1951

As Original Music Composer

Miniature

1953

As Original Music Composer

Varan the Unbelievable

1962

As Original Music Composer

Godzilla vs. Gigan

1972

As Original Music Composer

An Osaka Story

1957

As Original Music Composer

Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai

1963

As Original Music Composer

The Rainbow Man

1949

As Original Music Composer

Who Will Judge Me?

1951

As Music

Clothes of Deception

1951

As Original Music Composer

Zatoichi Challenged

1967

As Original Music Composer

Swift Current

1952

As Original Music Composer

A Second Life

1948

As Original Music Composer

Sound in the Mist

1956

As Music

On This Earth

1957

As Music

Lord Tadanao

1960

As Music

Rodan

1956

As Music

Crazy Uproar

1950

As Music

Jakoman and Tetsu

1949

As Music

Rainy Night Duel

1956

As Music

Wolfman vs. Baragon

1972

As Music Director

Wolfman vs. Godzilla

1983

As Music Director

Actress

1956

As Music

Onna no issho

1953

As Music

Dorodarake no seishun

1954

As Music

Three Faces

1955

As Music

Aijô ni tsuite

1953

As Music

Ryûri no kishi

1956

As Music

Godzilla vs. Hedorah

2021

As Music

Stolen Love

1951

As Music

White Fish

1953

As Music

Kuro-uma no danshichi

1948

As Music

Judge of the Ashuras

1951

As Original Music Composer

The Motherland Far Far Away

1950

As Original Music Composer

Break Down that Wall

1959

As Original Music Composer

The King

1962

As Music

Who's The Real Killer

1957

As Music

Roar and Earth

1957

As Music

The Precipice

1958

As Music

Jigoku bana

1957

As Music

Dozoku no ranjo

1991

As Original Music Composer

Brooba

1955

As Original Music Composer

Devil's Gold

1950

As Original Music Composer

Will to Conquer

1970

As Music

Shachō to onna tenin

1948

As Music

Kojiki taishō

1964

As Music

Yokubo

1953

As Music

Tetsujin 28: Morning Moon of Midday

2007

As Original Music Composer

Heat and Mud

1950

As Music

Shinran

1960

As Music

Within Reach

2017

As Original Music Composer

Look Within

2019

As Original Music Composer

Different Sons

1961

As Music

Women of Ginza

1955

As Music

The Human Revolution

1973

As Original Music Composer

女と海賊

1959

As Music

Murahachibu

1953

As Original Music Composer

Beyond Love and Hate

1951

As Original Music Composer

Kirare no Senta

1949

As Original Music Composer

Typhoon's Eye

1955

As Original Music Composer

生れかわる客車

1953

As Music

Freedom School

1951

As Original Music Composer

Shinran, Part II

1960

As Music

限りなき情熱

1951

As Music

Gala

2008

As Music

Will-o'-the-Wisp

1956

As Music

Godzilla Minus One

2023

As Music

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