Happy birthday Akira Ifukube (110) 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 Pt. 1

1 0

Published 2024-05-31

Happy 110th birthday to the late Japanese composer Akira Ifukube (May 31st 1914-February 8th 2006 [John Williams’ then-74th birthday]), who scored 12 of the first 22 ⁠‪@GodzillaToho‬ films from 1954-1995 (amongst others). His collaborations with director Ishiro Honda are the Crown Jewel of kaiju films

Akira Ifukube is among the list of a handful of celebrities who lived through ⁠‪@FrankSinatra‬‘s entire life

The kaiju films Ifukube scored are:
Godzilla*
Rodan*
The Mysterians*
Varan*
King Kong vs. Godzilla*
Mothra vs. Godzilla*
Dogora*
Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster*
Frankenstein Conquers the World*
Invasion of the Astro-Monster*
War of the Gargantuas*
King Kong Escapes*
Destroy All Monsters*
Space Amoeba*
Terror of MechaGodzilla*
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla II
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

*Honda-Ifukube collaboration

Even in the years leading up to his death (and after), Ifukube’s themes continue to be used in various Godzilla films (Toho’s Godzilla vs. Gigan, Godzilla vs. Biollante, Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, Godzilla 2000, Godzilla vs. Megaguirus, Godzilla Mothra King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, Godzilla: Final Wars, and Shin Godzilla as stock music, ⁠‪@legendary‬/⁠‪@WarnerBrosPictures‬‘ Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Toho/⁠‪@Netflix‬‘s animated series Godzilla Singular Point & Toho’s Godzilla Minus One as modernized versions)

I used ⁠‪@thepriceisright‬’s 30th season premiere mixed with Ifukube’s “The Greatest Battle of Earth II” from Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster

All Comments (1)