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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.
Godzilla, the once feared God who successfully rebuilt the earth in his own image has grown huge but old, tired, and weak. He's ready to pass on from his planet. But during his time he repopulated the earth with his own kind roaming the mountains, walking in herds, swimming through the oceans deep, and fighting other wild kaiju. His first-born son, Junior will take his place as the new king of the monsters, a new hope for his family. His second-born son, Minya on the other hand is angry that he wasn't chosen and wants to do away with his brother. His recklessness, his fury, and his forbidden power awakens one final giant threat of the universe, Bagan and his brethren army from hell. So while the two brothers battle for the throne, their father Godzilla duels the invincible Bagan on his last legs to protect his more than extended family.
