Sunday, February 12, 2006

Akira Ifukube 1915-2006

Akira Ifukube, the music composer best known for writing the scores of the popular "Godzilla" movies, died in a Tokyo hospital on Wednesday. He was 91.

As a long-time fan of Godzilla movies, I am very saddened by his passing.

8 comments:

Tom & Icy said...

Godzilla will never dance the same again. It's always sad to lose talent from this world. We're sorry.

Topwomen said...

Also a big Godzilla fan, I'm sorry to hear of his passing. Maybe in heaven he can correctly sync American dialogue with the Japanese spoken film...;)

Sorry,just a little levity on a heavy day. Hope you don't take offense cube.

cube said...

No offense taken, rgmb.

Jen said...

We love Godzilla! I didn't notice this in the news, thanks for bringing it up.

I just spent a while searching around for the original "Gojira," so we could watch it. It was a bit tricky to find a version from before the Raymond Burr makeover, that had English subtitles. It's on its way to me right now!

cube said...

jen: Funny that you would mention Godzilla's original name. I posted about it a while back go here, if you're interested in an oldie-but-goodie post and was accused of being offensive & butchering the Japanese language by a PC loser.

Jamie Dawn said...

I LOVED those movies as a kid. I'm glad he lived a long life.

Sar said...

Cube, my hubby is huge Godzilla fan too.

Jay Noel said...

Maybe Mothra could spread his ashes over Japan.