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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. Akira Ifukube was born on 31 May 1914 in Kushiro, Japan as the third son of a police officer Toshimitsu Ifukube, also the origins of this family can be traced back to at least the 7th century with the birth of Ifukibe-no-Tokotarihime. He was strongly influenced by the Ainu music as he spent his childhood (from age of 9 to 12) in Otofuke near Obihiro, where was with a mixed population of Ainu and Japanese. His first encounter with classical music occurred when attending secondary school in Sapporo city. Ifukube decided to become a composer at the age of 14 after hearing a radio performance of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, also cited the music of Manuel de Falla as a major influence. Ifukube studied forestry at Hokkaido Imperial University in Sapporo and composed in his spare time, which prefigured a line of self-taught Japanese composers. He taught at the Tokyo University of the Arts (formerly Tokyo Music School), during which period he composed his first film score for The End of the Silver Mountains, released in 1947. Over the next fifty years, he would compose more than 250 film scores, the high point of which was his 1954 music for Ishirō Honda's Toho movie, Godzilla. Description above from the Wikipedia article Akira Ifukube , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Akira Ifukube
Composer
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A 90's remake of 'King Kong vs Godzilla' that combines Peter Jackson's original idea for a King Kong remake and the Godzilla vs The Gryphon idea: Filmmaker Carl Denham, while filming in the Arctic, happens across a statue of a strange gorilla-like creature called 'Kong'. Joined by British archeologist Ann Darrow, former soldier Jack Discroll, both of whom were in the area when Denham discovered the statue, Denham enlists Captain Englehorn to take the group to Skull Island to film this legendary creature. At the same time, an organization named the St. George Project tries to find a way to destroy the atomic creature known as Godzilla, whose awakening in the Arctic revealed the statue to Denham. Their plans are nearly ruined when Denham and the others return with the giant ape-like creature Kong, resulting in a battle between Godzilla and Kong. As they battle, a creature known as the Gryphon lands on Earth and begins its own reign of terror as it tries to find and destroy Godzilla. Once Kong escapes, him and Godzilla have another fight, but will soon become reluctant allies once the Gryphon arrives to destroy them both.
