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    Akira Ifukube (伊福部 昭, Ifukube Akira, 31 May 1914 – 8 February 2006) was a Japanese composer. He is best known for composing several entries in the Godzilla...
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    Godzilla (1954 film) (category Films scored by Akira Ifukube)
    film's score was composed by Akira Ifukube. After meeting with Tomoyuki Tanaka, Eiji Tsuburaya, and Ishirō Honda, Ifukube enthusiastically accepted the...
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    to Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaidō. In 1933, Hayasaka and Akira Ifukube organized the New Music League, which held a new music festival the...
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  • Tokyo College of Music under Akira Ifukube and Sei Ikeno. He is also an apprentice of the famed Godzilla composer, Akira Ifukube. He is married to Inuyasha...
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  • "Godzilla (Main Theme)" is a musical theme written by Akira Ifukube for the 1954 film Godzilla. Originally intended to be associated with the Japanese...
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    tone of Akira". However, Desplat paid homage to Ifukube during the track "Godzilla!" by flaring the brass to reflect sounds similar to Ifukube's themes...
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  • Tsuburaya. Composer Akira Ifukube was offered to score the film but respectfully declined. At the time, it was rumored that Ifukube refused to participate...
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  • We knew from the beginning that we wanted to incorporate classic [Akira] Ifukube themes, and yet I think fans will be excited to hear how they have evolved...
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    Mothra vs. Godzilla (category Films scored by Akira Ifukube)
    composed by Akira Ifukube. Ifukube adapted elements from Yuji Koseki's "Song of Mothra" theme from the 1961 film into his score. Honda and Ifukube were regular...
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  • musical score began later that year in Hong Kong. Several themes from Akira Ifukube's musical score for Godzilla (1954), were incorporated and sampled in...
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  • The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon (category Films scored by Akira Ifukube)
    assistant directors Isao Takahata and Kimio Yabuki. The score, composed by Akira Ifukube, is also acclaimed. The film tells the story of the deity Susanoo (as...
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  • Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (category Films scored by Akira Ifukube)
    produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka, and scored by composer Akira Ifukube before their deaths, though Ifukube's themes would continue to be used in subsequent films...
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    specialists has inspired composers in different fields; for example, in 1980, Akira Ifukube, a classical and film composer best known for the Godzilla's theme,...
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    needed] Another Salome ballet was composed by the Japanese composer Akira Ifukube in 1948.[citation needed][relevant?] Danish choreographer Flemming Flindt's...
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    studied composition with Kunihiko Hashimoto, Kan'ichi Shimofusa and Akira Ifukube at the Tokyo Music School. He was one of the members of Sannin no kai...
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  • Japanese chemist Akira Hyodo (兵頭彰, born 1995), Japanese wrestler Akira Ibayashi (井林 章, born 1990), Japanese footballer Akira Ifukube (伊福部 昭, 1914–2006)...
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  • Music Distribution King Kong Escapes 1967 Ishirō Honda Takeshi Kimura Akira Ifukube Universal Pictures (theatrical) Marco 1973 Seymour Robbie Romeo Muller...
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    (transcribed in several comics as Skreeeonk!), which was created by composer Akira Ifukube, who produced the sound by rubbing a pine tar-resin-coated glove along...
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    Kinji Fukasaku Moto Hagio Yuzuru Hanyu Machiko Hasegawa Joe Hisaishi Akira Ifukube Sayuri Ishikawa Chika Kuroda Keisuke Kuwata Akihiro Maeta Takashi Matsumoto...
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    Ichirō Saitō (1952) Yasushi Akutagawa (1953) Chūji Kinoshita (1954) Akira Ifukube (1956) Toshiro Mayuzumi (1957) Rokuzaemon Kineya (1958) Matsunosuke...
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    King Kong vs. Godzilla (category Films scored by Akira Ifukube)
    were used to almost completely replace the original Japanese score by Akira Ifukube and give the film a more Western sound. They also obtained stock footage...
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  • Studio Ghibli's anime movies for the poignant scenes and the music of Akira Ifukube to accentuate the kaiju sequences. Rambling Records [ja] released Godzilla...
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  • Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (category Films scored by Akira Ifukube)
    1975's Terror of Mechagodzilla to feature a newly orchestrated score by Akira Ifukube. The film was released theatrically in Japan on December 14, 1991, and...
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  • the previous film, Godzilla vs. Biollante incorporates themes from Akira Ifukube's original Godzilla theme, though the majority of the soundtrack was...
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  • producer (b. 1945) 2006 – Thierry Fortineau, French actor (b. 1953) 2006 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914) 2007 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model...
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  • Minawa, who sought to replicate the "contrabass technique" composer Akira Ifukube used for Godzilla. He layered it with a sped up human voice. The sound...
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  • Godzilla vs. Gigan (category Films scored by Akira Ifukube)
    Kong Escapes, Battle in Outer Space, and several other Godzilla films. Akira Ifukube, who composed the music for those films, receives credit in the film...
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  • Destroy All Monsters (category Films scored by Akira Ifukube)
    "innovative action sequences", and a "memorably booming" score by Akira Ifukube. The film was followed by the tenth film in the Godzilla franchise,...
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    ceremony for the Order of Culture. A complete list can be found here. Akira Ifukube (1914–2006). A composer of classical music and film scores. Ryukichi...
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    the character of Goro Sawada (Yuya Yagira) is half-Ainu. Ainu-ken Akira Ifukube Bibliography of the Ainu Bikki Sunazawa Constitution of Japan Declaration...
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