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)