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Akira Ifukube (??? ? Ifukube Akira, May 31,1914 – February 8, 2006) was a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese composer of classical music and film scores, perhaps best known for his work on the soundtracks of the Godzilla
Godzilla

is a kaiju from the Godzilla series of science fiction films. He was first seen in the 1954 in film film Godzilla and has appeared in 28 films to date, all of which were produced by Toho As one of the most iconic characters in film history, Godzilla has also appeared in numerous Godzilla , Godzilla video games, novels and Godzilla in popula...
 movies by Toho
Toho

is a large Japanese independent film studio. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group....
. His music is known for utilizing heavy brass, and having a distinctively dark tone.

a Ifukube was born on May 31, 1914 in Kushiro on the Japanese island of Hokkaido
Hokkaido

, formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island and the largest, northernmost of its 47 prefectures of Japan....
, the third son of a Shinto
Shinto

is the former state religion of Japan and remains the most common name for the nation's non-Buddhist ethnic religion practices. It was formed from disparate local mythologies, beginning with the Kojiki of 712, into an imperial cult called State Shinto that solidified in the Meiji period....
 priest
Priest

A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities....
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Akira Ifukube (??? ? Ifukube Akira, May 31,1914 – February 8, 2006) was a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese composer of classical music and film scores, perhaps best known for his work on the soundtracks of the Godzilla
Godzilla

is a kaiju from the Godzilla series of science fiction films. He was first seen in the 1954 in film film Godzilla and has appeared in 28 films to date, all of which were produced by Toho As one of the most iconic characters in film history, Godzilla has also appeared in numerous Godzilla , Godzilla video games, novels and Godzilla in popula...
 movies by Toho
Toho

is a large Japanese independent film studio. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group....
. His music is known for utilizing heavy brass, and having a distinctively dark tone.

Biography

Akira Ifukube was born on May 31, 1914 in Kushiro on the Japanese island of Hokkaido
Hokkaido

, formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island and the largest, northernmost of its 47 prefectures of Japan....
, the third son of a Shinto
Shinto

is the former state religion of Japan and remains the most common name for the nation's non-Buddhist ethnic religion practices. It was formed from disparate local mythologies, beginning with the Kojiki of 712, into an imperial cult called State Shinto that solidified in the Meiji period....
 priest
Priest

A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities....
. Much of his childhood was spent in areas with a mixed Japanese and Ainu
Ainu people

are an ethnic group indigenous peoples to Hokkaido, the Kuril Islands, and much of Sakhalin. There are most likely over 150,000 Ainu today; however the exact figure is not known as many Ainu hide their origin due to Ethnic issues in Japan....
 population
Population

File:Population density.pngIn biology, a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular species; in sociology, a collection of human beings....
, and his father, unusually for the time, socialised with Ainu. Ifukube was strongly influenced by the traditional music
List of Asian folk music traditions

This is a list of folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics. The term folk music can not be easily defined in a precise manner; it is used with widely-varying definitions depending on the author, intended audience and context within a work....
 of both peoples, and studied the violin
Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
 and the shamisen
Shamisen

The shamisen or samisen , also called sangen is a three-stringed musical instrument played with a plectrum called a bachi. The pronunciation in Japanese language is usually "shamisen" but sometimes "jamisen" rendaku ....
. His first encounter with classical music occurred when attending secondary school in Hokkaido's capital, Sapporo. Legend has it that Ifukube decided to become a composer at the age of 14 after hearing a radio performance of Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
's ballet, The Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring

The Rite of Spring, commonly referred to by its original French language title, Le Sacre du Printemps is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, and original set design and costumes by archaeologist and painter Nicholas Roerich, all under impresario Serge Diaghilev....
. He also cited the music of Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla

Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spain composer of European classical music....
 as a major influence.

Ifukube went on to study forestry
Forestry

Forestry is the art and science of managing forests, tree plantations, and related natural resources. Silviculture, a related science, involves the growing and tending of trees and forests....
 at Hokkaido University
Hokkaido University

, or , is one of the leading national university of Japan. It is considered as a member of the National Seven Universities. It is situated in downtown Sapporo, just north of Sapporo Station, and stretching approximately 2.4 kilometers northward....
 and composing in his spare time, which prefigured a line of self-taught Japanese composers such as Toru Takemitsu
Toru Takemitsu

was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Though largely self-taught, Takemitsu is recognised for his skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre, drawing from a wide range of influences, including jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures and traditional Japanese music, in a harmonic idiom la...
 and Takashi Yoshimatsu
Takashi Yoshimatsu

is a contemporary Japanese people composer of classical music. He is well known for composing the 2003 remake of Astro Boy.Takashi Yoshimatsu was born in Tokyo, Japan, and like Toru Takemitsu, the composer generally considered to be Japan's greatest in the western classical style, did not receive formal musical training while growing up....
. His first piece was the piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
 solo, Piano Suite (later the title was changed to Japan Suite, arranged for orchestra). This piece is dedicated to the pianist John Copland who has lived in Spain. Atsushi Miura, musicologist and Ifukube's friend in university, sent a fan letter to Copland. Copland replied "This is wonderful that you listen my disc in spite of you live in Japan, the revert side of the earth. I imagine you may compose music. Send me some piano pieces." Then Miura, who is not composer, presented Ifukube to him with this piece. Copland promised to interplate it, but this corespondence is unfortunately retired because of the Spain War. And his big break came in 1935, when his first orchestral piece, Japanese Rhapsody, won first prize in an international contest
Contest

A contest, is an event in which two or more individuals or teams engage in competition against each other, often for a prize or similar incentive....
 for young composers promoted by Alexander Tcherepnin
Alexander Tcherepnin

Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin was a Russian-born composer and pianist. His father, Nikolai Tcherepnin and his son, Ivan Tcherepnin were also composers, as are two of his grandsons, Sergei and Stefan....
. The judges of that contest--Albert Roussel
Albert Roussel

File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
, Jacques Ibert
Jacques Ibert

Jacques Fran?ois Antoine Ibert was a French composer of european classical music....
, Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
, Alexandre Tansman
Alexandre Tansman

Alexandre Tansman was a prolific composer and virtuoso pianist. He spent his early years in his native Poland, but lived in France for most of his life....
, Tibor Harsanyi
Tibor Harsanyi

Tibor Hars?nyi was a Hungarian people-born composer and pianist.He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music under Zolt?n Kod?ly, before relocating to Paris in 1923....
, Pierre-Octave Ferroud
Pierre-Octave Ferroud

Pierre-Octave Ferroud was a France composer of classical music.He was born in Chasselay, Rh?ne, near Lyon. He went to Lyon, to Strasbourg where he studied with Guy Ropartz, and again to Lyon where he was for a time an associate and "disciple" of Florent Schmitt, and a pupil of Georges Martin Witkowski....
, and Henri Gil-Marchex--were unanimous in their selection of Ifukube as the winner. The next year, Ifukube studied modern Western composition while Tcherepnin was visiting Japan, and in 1938 his Piano Suite obtained an honourable mention at the I.C.S.M. festival in Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
. In the late 1930s his music, especially Japanese Rhapsody, was performed in Europe on a number of occasions.

On completing University, he worked as a forestry
Forestry

Forestry is the art and science of managing forests, tree plantations, and related natural resources. Silviculture, a related science, involves the growing and tending of trees and forests....
 officer and lumber
Lumber

Lumber or timber is wood in any of its stages from logging through readiness for use as structural material for construction, or wood pulp for paper production....
 processor, and towards the end of the Second World War was appointed by the Japanese Imperial Army
Imperial Army

An Imperial Army is literally an army of any empire. However, only some empires in history and in fiction have actually referred to their armies as "The Imperial Army."...
 to study the elasticity
Elasticity (physics)

In physics, elasticity is the physical property of a material when it deforms under stress , but returns to its original shape when the stress is removed....
 and vibratory strength
Vibration

Vibration refers to mechanical oscillations about an equilibrium point. The oscillations may be periodic function such as the motion of a pendulum or random such as the movement of a tire on a gravel road....
 of wood. He suffered radiation
Ionizing radiation

Ionizing radiation consists of subatomic particle radiation or electromagnetic radiation that are energetic enough to detach electrons from atoms or molecules, ionize them....
 exposure after carrying out x-rays without protection, a consequence of the wartime lead
Lead

Lead is a main-group Chemical element with symbol Pb and atomic number 82. Lead is a soft, malleable poor metal, also considered to be one of the heavy metal ....
 shortage. Thus, he had to abandon forestry work and became a professional composer and teacher. Ifukube spent some time in hospital due to the radiation exposure, and was startled one day to hear one of his own marches being played over the radio when General Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Order of the Bath was an United States General officer, United Nations general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army....
 arrived to formalize the Japanese surrender.

From 1946 to 1953, he taught at the Nihon University College of Art, during which period he composed his first film score
Film score

A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
 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 Ishiro Honda
Ishiro Honda

Ishiro Honda , sometimes miscredited in foreign releases as "Inoshiro Honda", was a Japanese people film director. His early film career included working as an assistant under the famed director, Akira Kurosawa....
's Toho
Toho

is a large Japanese independent film studio. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group....
 movie, Godzilla
Godzilla

is a kaiju from the Godzilla series of science fiction films. He was first seen in the 1954 in film film Godzilla and has appeared in 28 films to date, all of which were produced by Toho As one of the most iconic characters in film history, Godzilla has also appeared in numerous Godzilla , Godzilla video games, novels and Godzilla in popula...
. Ifukube also created Godzilla's trademark roar
Godzilla roar

The Godzilla roar is the trademarked sound the film monster Godzilla makes in most of his movies. What typifies the roar is that it sounds very mechanical and does not resemble an animal?s sound as such....
 - produced by rubbing a resin-covered leather glove
Leather glove

A leather glove is a fitted covering for the hand with a separate sheath for each finger and the thumb. This covering is composed of the tanned Rawhide of an animal , though it is not uncommon in recent years for the leather to be synthetic....
 along the loosened strings of a double bass
Double bass

The double bass or contrabass is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow string instrument used in the modern orchestra. It is a standard member of the string section of the orchestra and smaller string musical ensembles in European classical music....
 - and its footsteps, created by striking an amplifier
Amplifier

Generally, an amplifier or simply amp, is any machine that changes, usually increases, the amplitude of a Signal . The "signal" is usually voltage or current....
 box.

Despite his financial success as a film composer, Ifukube's first love had always been his general classical work as a composer. In 1974, he returned to teaching at the Tokyo College of Music
Tokyo College of Music

was founded as in Kanda, Tokyo in 1907. It is the oldest private music school in Japan....
, becoming president of the college the following year, and in 1987 retired to become president of the College's ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology is a branch of musicology defined as "the study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global contexts." ...
 department. He trained the younger generation composer such as Toshiro Mayuzumi, Yasushi Akutagawa
Yasushi Akutagawa

was a Japan composer and Conducting. He was born and raised in Tabata, Tokyo. His father was Ryunosuke Akutagawa.Akutagawa was taught composition by Hashimoto Kunihiko and Ifukube Akira at the Tokyo Conservatory of Music....
 and Kaoru Wada
Kaoru Wada

is a Japanese music composer, music arranger, conductor, music orchestrator and pianist from Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. He studied at the Tokyo College of Music....
. He also published Orchestration, a 1,000-page book on theory.

He died in Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
 at the Meguro-Ku Hospital
Hospital

A hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment, and often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays....
 of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

'Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome' , previously known as 'multiple organ failure ', is altered organ function in an acutely ill patient requiring medicine intervention to achieve homeostasis....
 on February 8, 2006 at the age of 91.

Honors

The Japanese government awarded Ikufube the Order of Culture
Order of Culture

The Order of Culture is a Japanese Order , established on February 11, 1937. The order has one class only, and may be awarded to men and women for contributions to Japanese Art, Japanese Literature or Japanese Culture; recipients of the order also receive an Annuity for life....
.

Subsequently, he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class.

Selected List of Works


Orchestral

  • Japanese Rhapsody (1935)
  • Triptyque aborigene for chamber orchestra(1937)
  • Symphony Concertante for piano and orchestra (1941)
  • Ballata sinfonica (1943)
  • Overture to the Nation of Philippines (1944)
  • Salome (1948) – ballet based on Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish people playwright, Irish poetry and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest Celebrity of his day....
    's play of the same name
    Salome (play)

    Salome is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde.The original 1891 version of the play was in French language. Three years later an English translation was published....
    . Ifukube revised and expanded the score in 1987. The piece is written in a conservative, late-romantic style reminiscent of Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky
    Mussorgsky

    Mussorgsky can refer to:*The Mussorgsky family of Russian nobility;*Modest Mussorgsky, a Russian composer belonging to that family.*Mussorgsky , a 1950 Soviet film about the composer...
     or even Khachaturian.
  • Drumming of Japan (1951, revised 1984)
  • Symphonic Fantasia No. 1 (1954, revised 1983)
  • Sinfonia Tapkaara (1954, revised 1979)
  • Ritmica Ostinata for piano and orchestra (1961, revised 1972)
  • Ronde in Burlesque for wind orchestra (1972, arranged to orchestra in 1983)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 (1978)
  • Lauda concertata for marimba and orchestra (1979)
  • Symphonic Fantasia No. 2 (1983)
  • Symphonic Fantasia No. 3 (1983)
  • Gotama the Buddha for mixed chorus and orchestra (1989)
  • Japanese Suite for orchestra (1991)
  • Japanese Suite for string orchestra (1998)


Chamber/Instrumental

  • Piano Suite (1933)
  • Toccata for guitar (1970)
  • Fantasia for baroque lute (1980)
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano (1985)
  • Ballata sinfonica for duo-treble and bass 25-stringed koto(2001)


Vocal

  • Ancient Minstrelsies of Gilyak Tribes (1946)
  • Three Lullabies Among the Native Tribes on the Island of Sakhalin (1949)
  • Eclogues after Epos Among Aino Races for solo voice and 4 kettle drums (1950)
  • A Shanty of the Shiretoko Peninsula (1960)
  • The Sea of Okhotsk for soprano, bassoon, piano [or harp] and double bass (1988)


Film score

  • Snow Trail (1947)
  • The Quiet Duel
    The Quiet Duel

    is a 1949 in film Cinema of Japan directed by Akira Kurosawa. ...
     (1949)
  • Godzilla
    Godzilla (1954 film)

    is a successful landmark 1954 in film Japanese science fiction film directed and co-written by Ishiro Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, produced and distributed by Toho....
     (1954)
  • The Burmese Harp (1956)
  • Rodan
    Rodan (film)

    Rodan, released in Japan as , is a 1956 tokusatsu film produced by Toho. It was the studio's first Kaiju eiga filmed in color . It is one of a series of "giant monster" movies that found an audience outside Japan, especially in United States....
     (1956)
  • The Mysterians
    The Mysterians

    The Mysterians, released in Japan as , is a tokusatsu science fiction film produced and released by Toho in 1957. It was directed by the "Golden Duo" of Ishiro Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya ....
     (1957)
  • Varan the Unbelievable
    Varan the Unbelievable

    Varan the Unbelievable, released in Japan as , is a 1958 kaiju eiga directed by Ishiro Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya , and their last black-and-white monster film....
     (1958)
  • The Birth of Japan
    The Birth of Japan

    , also called The Three Treasures, is a 1959 Japanese tokusatsu fantasy epic film. Telling the story of the creation of Japan according to Japanese mythology, specifically the Shinto religion, it is considered Japan's answer to The Ten Commandments ....
     (1958)
  • Battle in Outer Space
    Battle in Outer Space

    is a tokusatsu film produced and released by Toho in Japan in 1959, and distributed world-wide in 1960 by Columbia Pictures under the title Battle in Outer Space....
     (1959)
  • The Big Boss
    The Big Boss

    The Big Boss is a Hong Kong films of 1971 Hong Kong martial arts film-Hong Kong action cinema.The Big Boss was Bruce Lee's first major film....
     (Boss of the Underworld)     (1959)
  • Daredevil in the Castle (1961)
  • The Tale of Zatoichi
    Zatoichi

    is a fictional character featured in one of Japan's longest running series of films and a television series set in the Edo period. The character, a blind masseur and swordmaster, was created by novelist ....
     (1962)
  • King Kong vs. Godzilla
    King Kong vs. Godzilla

    is a 1962 tokusatsu kaiju film directed by Ishiro Honda with visual effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. It was the third installment in the Japanese series of monster films featuring the mutant dinosaur Godzilla....
     (1962)
  • Chushingura
    Chushingura

    is the name for fictionalized accounts of the historical revenge by the Forty-seven Ronin of the death of their master, Asano Naganori. Including the early , the story has been told in kabuki, bunraku, stage plays, films, novels, television shows and other media....
     (1962)
  • Wanpaku Ouji no Orochi Taiji
    Wanpaku Ouji no Orochi Taiji

    Wanpaku ?ji no Orochi Taiji is an anime film produced by Toei Animation and released in Japan on March 24, 1963. English-dubbed versions were released under several titles, including The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon, Prince in Wonderland, and Rainbow Bridge....
     (1963)
  • Atragon
    Atragon

    Atragon, released in Japan as , is a 1963 in film Toho tokusatsu film based on a series of juvenile adventure novels under the banner Kaitei Gunkan by Shunro Oshikawa and the illustrated fiction Kaitei Okoku by illustrator Shigeru Komatsuzaki, serialized in a monthly magazine for boys....
     (1963)
  • Mothra vs. Godzilla
    Mothra vs. Godzilla

    is a tokusatsu kaiju film directed by Ishiro Honda. It was the fourth film to be released in the Godzilla , produced by Toho...
     (1964)
  • Dogora (1964)
  • Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
    Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

    Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, released in Japan as and originally released in the US as Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster, is a 1964 tokusatsu kaiju film, and is the 5th film in Toho's Godzilla series....
     (1964)
  • Whirlwind (1964)
  • Frankenstein Conquers the World
    Frankenstein Conquers the World

    Frankenstein Conquers the World, released in Japan as and Toho's official English title is Frankenstein vs. Baragon, is a tokusatsu kaiju/horror film produced in 1965 by Toho....
     (1965)
  • Invasion of Astro-Monster
    Invasion of Astro-Monster

    Invasion of Astro-Monster; known in Japan as ; Monster Zero and Godzilla vs. Monster Zero in the United States; and Invasion of the Astro-Monsters in the United Kingdom is a Toho kaiju film released in 1965 and direct sequel to Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster....
     (1965)
  • War of the Gargantuas
    War of the Gargantuas

    The War of the Gargantuas, released in Japan as , is a 1966 in film Kaiju eiga , and a sequel to Frankenstein Conquers the World.It introduces two giant, hairy humanoids called Gargantuas, which spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's monster from the previous film and are described as brothers....
     (1966)
  • Daimajin
    Daimajin

    File:Kaiyodo kurokabe02s3200.jpgThe Daimajin is a Kaiju from the Daimajin trilogy created by Kadokawa Pictures. All three movies in the trilogy ? Daimajin, Return of Daimajin , and Wrath of Daimajin ? were made in 1966, and were released a year apart....
     (1966)
  • Wrath of Daimajin (1966)
  • Return of Daimajin (1966)
  • King Kong Escapes
    King Kong Escapes

    King Kong Escapes, released in Japan as , is a Japanese/United States tokusatsu film. A co-production from Toho and Rankin/Bass, it was released in Japan in 1967, and in the United States by Universal Studios the following year....
     (1967)
  • Destroy All Monsters
    Destroy All Monsters

    Destroy All Monsters, released in Japan as , is a 1968 in film Kaiju eiga . The ninth in Toho' Godzilla series, it was directed by Ishiro Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya and Sadamasa Arikawa....
     (1968)
  • Latitude Zero (1969)
  • Space Amoeba
    Space Amoeba

    Space Amoeba or Yog--Monster from Space, released in Japan as , is a tokusatsu science fiction film produced and released by Toho in 1970....
     (1970)
  • Godzilla vs. Gigan
    Godzilla vs. Gigan

    Godzilla vs. Gigan, released in Japan as and also known as Godzilla on Monster Island when first released to U.S. theaters, is a 1972 tokusatsu film....
     (1972)
  • Sandakan No. 8 (1974)
  • Terror of Mechagodzilla
    Terror of Mechagodzilla

    Terror of Mechagodzilla, released in Japan as , is a 1975 tokusatsu kaiju film. The film was titled The Terror of Godzilla in its original United States of America theatrical release....
     (1975)
  • Lady Origin (1978)
  • Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
    Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

    is the 18th installment in the Godzilla series of films. The movie was released theatrically in Japan on December 14, 1991. It was directed by Kazuki Omori and produced by Shogo Tomiyama with special effects provided by Koichi Kawakita....
     (1991)
  • Godzilla vs. Mothra
    Godzilla vs. Mothra

    , released as Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth in the U.S., is the 19th installment in the Godzilla series of films. The movie was released theatrically in Japan on December 12, 1992....
     (1992)
  • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
    Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II

    Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II, released in Japan as , is a 1993 film directed by Takao Okawara and written by Wataru Mimura. It was the twentieth film in Toho's Godzilla series....
     (1993)
  • Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
    Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

    , also known as Godzilla vs. Destroyer, is a 1995 film directed by Takao Okawara and written by Kazuki Omori. The film's story focuses on Godzilla fighting Destoroyah, a monster that was created by the Oxygen Destroyer weapon that killed the original Godzilla in the Godzilla ....
     (1995)


In addition, his work was used in Godzilla 1984, Godzilla vs. Biollante
Godzilla vs. Biollante

is a 1989 Kaiju film written and directed by Kazuki Omori. It was the seventeenth film to be released in the Godzilla franchise and the second in terms of the franchise's Heisei period....
, Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla

is a 1994 kaiju film directed by Kensho Yamashita and written by Hiroshi Kashiwabara. It was the twenty-first film released in the Godzilla series as the film....
, Godzilla 2000
Godzilla 2000

is a 1999 kaiju film directed by Takao Okawara and written by Hiroshi Kashiwabara and Wataru Mimura. It was the twenty-third film released in the Godzilla series....
, Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus

Godzilla vs. Megaguirus, originally released in Japan as is a 2000 kaiju film directed by Masaaki Tezuka and written by Hiroshi Kashiwabara and Wataru Mimura....
, Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

is a 2001 Kaiju film directed and co-written by Shusuke Kaneko. It was the twenty-fifth film to be released in the Godzilla film series. It is part of the Millennium series and is a direct sequel to the original Godzilla ....
, and Godzilla: Final Wars
Godzilla: Final Wars

is the fiftieth anniversary film and the twenty-eighth film in the Godzilla .It was directed by Ryuhei Kitamura and produced by Shogo Tomiyama. As a 50th anniversary celebratory film, a large group of actors from previous Godzilla films, both classic and new, made appearances as main characters or cameo appearances....
.

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