| Includes subcategories relating to Akira Ifukube. |
| Akira Ifukube | |
| Gender: | Male |
| Medium(s): | Film |
| Roles: | Composer |
| Born: | May 31st, 1914 |
| Birthplace: | Kushiro, Hokkaidō, Japan |
| Died: | February 8th, 2006 |
| 1st Sci-Fi: | Gojira |
Akira Ifukube was a Japanese film composer born in Kushiro on the Japanese isle of Hokkaidō on May 31st, 1914. He is best known for scoring the central themes used in the Godzilla film franchise produced by Toho Company, Ltd. With a career spanning more than fifty years, more than 250 film scores, the high point of which was his 1954 music for Ishirô Honda's Toho movie, Gojira. Ifukube also created Godzilla's trademark roar – produced by rubbing a resin-covered leather glove along the loosened strings of a double bass – and its footsteps, created by striking an amplifier box.
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