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'Godzilla' composer Akira Ifukube dies at 91
[ Thursday, February 09, 2006 02:18:01 pmIANS ]


TOKYO: The Godzilla theme composer Akira Ifukube died on Wednesday night in Tokyo of multiple organ failure. He was 91.

Ifukube, best known for his music for Godzilla (1954), was self-taught in music composition and wrote screen music from the 1950s. His more than 300 works include ‘Gembaku no ko’ (Children of Hiroshima) in 1952 and Daimajin series starting in 1966.

Born in Hokkaido, Ifukube graduated from Hokkaido University. He served as the president of the Tokyo College of Music between 1976 and 1987.

Ifukube received a Person of Cultural Merit, one of Japan's highest honours, in 2003.
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the article does not say but he also supplied the unforgettable voice of godzilla as well. may he rest in peace.

I had to reply, even though I doubt I've ever heard his work. It's always sad to hear that the world has lost another composer. Good composers are geniouses: I have no idea how they do it, so in a sense we've lost a genious. Pity. Still, 91, that's a pretty long life.

I had to reply, even though I doubt I've ever heard his work. It's always sad to hear that the world has lost another composer. Good composers are geniouses: I have no idea how they do it, so in a sense we've lost a genious. Pity. Still, 91, that's a pretty long life.


a great composer is really hard to find.

:( He's really gone? No more EEEEAAAAARRRRRGHGHGHHburp? :( That music is in my head now. I'm such a Godzilla fan I actually know how the music goes. Time to shop for soundtracks and light some memorial incense.

May he rest in peace (and chaos...it was Godzilla after all).

He should have a godzilla shaped tombstone.

He should have a godzilla shaped tombstone.And to actual scale ;)