Akira Ifukube

== Akira Ifukube (Japanese composer) ==
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.
== Works ==
* Japanese Rhapsody (1935)
* Triptyque Aborigène for chamber orchestra (1937); dedicated to Alexander Tcherepnin.
* Etenraku, ballet (1940); lost
* Symphony Concertante for piano and orchestra (1941)
* Ballata Sinfonica (1943)
* Overture to the Nation of Philippines (1944)
* Arctic Forest (1944)
* Rapsodia Concertante for Violin and Orchestra (Violin Concerto No. 1) (1948, revised 1951/59/71)
* Salome, ballet (1948, score revised and expanded 1987 for Suite) based on Oscar Wilde's play
* Fire of Prometheus, ballet (1950)
* Drumming of Japan, ballet (1951, revised 1984)
* Sinfonia Tapkaara (1954, revised 1979)
* Ritmica Ostinata for piano and orchestra (1961, revised 1971)
* Ronde in Burlesque for wind orchestra (1972, arranged to orchestra in 1983)
* Violin Concerto No. 2 (1978)
* Lauda concertata for marimba and orchestra (1979)
* Eglogue symphonique for 20-strings koto and orchestra (1982)
* Symphonic Fantasia No. 1 (1983); arrangement from the film scores
* Symphonic Fantasia No. 2 (1983)
* Symphonic Fantasia No. 3 (1983)
* Gotama the Buddha, symphonic ode for mixed chorus and orchestra (1989)
* Japanese Suite for orchestra (1991); arrangement from the piano suite
* Japanese Suite for string orchestra (1998)
** Snow Trail (1947)
** Invitation to Happiness (1947)
** Second Life (1948)
** Danshichi's Black Horse (1948)
** Woman In the Typhoon Belt (1948)
** The President and the Shopgirl (1948)
** The Quiet Duel (1949)
** Late Night Confession (1949)
** Jakoman and Tetsu (1949)
** Rainbow Man (1949)
** Detective Hiroshi (1949)
** Kumo no machi (City of the Spider) (1950)
** White Beast (1950)
** Listen to the Student's Memoirs Senbotsu Japan, Voice of Wadatsumi (1950)
** Flowers of Seven Colors (1950)
** Beyond Love and Hate (1951)
** Clothes of Deception (1951)
** Free School (1951)
** The Tale of Genji (1951)
** Children of Hiroshima (1952)
** Violence (1952)
** Swift Current (1952)
** Tenryu River (1952)
** A Thousand Paper Cranes (1953)
** Epitome (1953)
** Anatahan (アナタハン), also known as The Saga of Anatahan (1953)
** White Fish (1953)
** Crab Ship (1953)
** Hiroshima (1953)
** Sakuma Dam Part One (1954)
** Cape Ashizuri (1954)
** Muddy Youth (1954)
** Godzilla (1954)
** Dobu (1954)
** Ningen gyorai kaiten (1955)
** Women of Ginza (1955)
** The Maid's Child (1955)
** Sakuma Dam Part Two: Transformation of the Great Tenryu (1955)
** Three Faces (1955)
** Kabuki Jūhachiban 'Narukami': Beauty and the Sea Dragon (1955)
** Baruuba (1955)
** The Burmese Harp (1956)
** Wandering Shore (1956)
** Onibi (1956)
** Sound of the Fog (1956)
** The Good-Natured Couple (1956)
** Rodan (1956)
** Osaka Story (1957)
** Advancing Vitamin B1 (1957)
** Yagyu Secret Scrolls (1957)
** Sakuma Dam Part Three (1957)
** Hateful Things (1957)
** Who Committed Murder (1957)
** The Final Escape (1957)
** Scoundrels of the Sea (1957)
** Downtown (1957)
** The Ground (1957)
** The Mysterians (1957)
** Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu (1958)
** Sorrow Is Only for Women (1958)
** A Bridge for Us Alone (1958)
** Ice Wall (1958)
** Varan (1958)
** Boss of the Underworld (The Big Boss) (1959)
** Whistling in the Kotan (1959)
** Woman and the Pirates (1959)
** Tear Down Those Walls (1959)
** The Birth of Japan (1959)
** Battle in Outer Space (1959)
** Baluchaung Project (1960)
** Shinran (1960)
** Shinran Continued (1960)
** Castle of Flames (1960)
** The Story of Osaka Castle (1961)
** Musashi Miyamoto (1961)
** Challenge in the Snow (1961)
** Buddha (1961)
** Hangyakuji (1961)
** Different Sons (1961)
** The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)
** Whale God (1962)
** King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
** The Great Wall (1962)
** Chushingura (1962)
** New Tale of Zatoichi (1963)
** Wanpaku Ouji no Orochi Taiji (1963)
** 13 Assassins (1963)
** Zatoichi the Fugitive (1963)
** Yoso (1963)
** Zatoichi on the Road (1963)
** Atragon (1963)
** Teikoku Bank Incident: Prisoner nf Death Row (1964)
** Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
** Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964)
** Dogora (1964)
** The Last Woman of Shang (1964)
** The Woman Running on the Shore (1964)
** Suruga yukyoden (1964)
** Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
** Whirlwind (1964)
** Tokugawa Ieyasu (1965)
** Zatoichi's Revenge (1965)
** Japanese Archipelago (A Chain of Islands) (1965)
** Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
** Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
** Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965)
** Daimajin (1966)
** Adventure in Kigan Castle (1966)
** Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)
** The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
** Return of Daimajin (1966)
** Thirteen Thousand Suspects (1966)
** Daimajin Strikes Again (1966)
** King Kong Escapes (1967)
** Eleven Samurai (1967)
** Zatoichi Challenged (1967)
** Kaidan yukijorō (1968)
** Destroy All Monsters (1968)
** Young Challengers (1968)
** Dawn of the Skyscraper (Akebono Skyscraper) (1969)
** The Devil's Temple (1969)
** Latitude Zero (1969)
** Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
** Space Amoeba (1970)
** Will to Conquer (1970)
** Zatoichi's Conspiracy (1973)
** The Human Revolution (1973)
** Oh Wolf, Slay the Setting Sun (The Last Samurai) (1974)
** Sandakan No. 8 (1974)
** Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
** The Door Has Opened (1975)
** The Great Elm (1976)
** The Sea, the Wings and Tomorrow (1977)
** Lady Ogin (1978)
** Dozoku no ranjo (1991)
** Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
** Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)
** Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
** Kushiro Marshland (1993)
** Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)
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