Akira Ifukube

akira ifukube (伊福部 昭, Ifukube Akira) is an Japanese composer that made the famous works of Godzilla (1954) music and all the Showa and Heisei era godzilla themes plus several other composed musicale notes.

## Works

* *Japanese Rhapsody* (1935)
* *Triptyque Aborigène* for chamber orchestra (1937)
* *Etenraku*, ballet (1940 lost work)
* *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 (1948 Violin)
* *Salome*, ballet (1948)
* *Fire of Prometheus*, ballet (1950)
* *Drumming of Japan*, ballet (1951, revised 1984)
* *Sinfonia Tapkaara* (1954, revised 1979)
* *Ritmica Ostinata* for piano and orchestra (1961)
	+ *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

### Film

* *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)