Akira Ifukube

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Akira Ifukube (伊福部昭 ifukube akira) is the man that made the original Godzilla music from 1954-1995 that made him famous for making the music.

## Work's

* *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)

* *Piano Suite* (1933)
* *Toka: Cantilena ballabile sul mode antico de Giappone*, for guitar (1967)
* *Kugoka* for guitar (1969)
* *Toccata* for guitar (1970)
* *Fantasia* for baroque lute (1980)
* Sonata for violin and piano (1985)
* *Ballata sinfonica* for duo-treble and bass 25-stringed koto (2001)

* *Ancient Minstrelsies of Gilyak Tribes*, for soprano and piano (1946)
* *Three Lullabies among the Native Tribes on the Island of Sakhalin*, for soprano and piano (1949)
* *Eclogues after Epos among Aino Races*, for soprano and timpani (1950)
* *A Shanty of the Shiretoko Peninsula* (1961)
* *The Sea of Okhotsk* for soprano, bassoon, piano (or harp) and double bass (1988)
* *Tomo no oto* for traditional ensemble and orchestra (1990)
* *Lake Kimtaankamuito* (Lake Mashū) (摩周湖, *Mashū-ko*) for soprano, viola and harp or piano (1992)
* *Five Poems after Inaba Manyo* (1994); text by Ōtomo no Yakamochi
* *La Fontaine sacrée* for soprano, viola, bassoon and harp (1964, 2000); arrangement by the composer from the 1964 film score *Mothra vs. Godzilla*
* *Ao Saghi (Grey heron)* for soprano, oboe, double bass and piano (2000); text by Genzō Sarashina

* *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)
* *Tetsujin 28th: Hakuchu no Zangetsu* (2007, posthumous score)

## Greatest works

* Symphonic Fantasia No.1
* Godzilla (1954 Main Title)
* Symphonic Fantasia No.2
* Symphonic Fantasia No.3
* Symphonic Fantasia No.4
* Symphonic Fantasia No.5
* *Japanese Rhapsody* (1935)