Akira Ifukube Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Akira Ifukube

Akira Ifukube

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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 Movies

Production

King Kong vs. Godzilla movie poster
MOVIE

King Kong vs. Godzilla

6.9(0.3K)
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Original Music Composer
Mothra vs. Godzilla movie poster
MOVIE

Mothra vs. Godzilla

7.0(0.3K)
Mothra vs. Godzilla
Original Music Composer
Godzilla movie poster
MOVIE

Godzilla

7.6(1.1K)
Godzilla
Original Music Composer
Destroy All Monsters movie poster
MOVIE

Destroy All Monsters

6.9(0.3K)
Destroy All Monsters
Original Music Composer
The War of the Gargantuas movie poster
MOVIE

The War of the Gargantuas

6.4(0.1K)
The War of the Gargantuas
Original Music Composer
Frankenstein Conquers the World movie poster
MOVIE

Frankenstein Conquers the World

6.8(0.1K)
Frankenstein Conquers the World
Original Music Composer
Break Down that Wall movie poster
MOVIE

Break Down that Wall

7.5(0.0K)
Break Down that Wall
Original Music Composer
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah movie poster
MOVIE

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

7.8(0.3K)
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
Original Music Composer
The Burmese Harp movie poster
MOVIE

The Burmese Harp

7.8(0.2K)
The Burmese Harp
Original Music Composer
Daimajin movie poster
MOVIE

Daimajin

6.5(0.1K)
Daimajin
Original Music Composer

Gallery

Akira Ifukube portrait