Zatoichi soundtrack

[Julien Seveon]

Thank you to you three for your answer ! I wasn't aware that was Ifukube's 
work on the Zatoichi movies.

JS


>From: Aaron Gerow <gerow at ynu.ac.jp>
>Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>To: "KineJapan" <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
>Subject: Re: Zatoichi soundtrack
>Date: Mon, 12 Jun 00 10:37:31 +0900
>
>Ifukube Akira, most famous for composing the music to Godzilla, is one of
>the most respected film composers in Japan.  He was born in Kushiro,
>Hokkaido, in 1914, and some argue his contacts with Ainu music left a
>lasting impression on his work.  While at Hokkaido University, he formed
>with Hayasaka Fumio (composer for many of Kurosawa's films) the "Shin
>ongaku renmei" and began composing music, winning both domestic and
>international awards in the late 1930s, even though his first job was in
>the forestry bureau.  It was Hayasaka who invited him to come to Tokyo
>and compose for the cinema.  While starting to teach at the Tokyo Ongaku
>Gakko (his pupils included Mayuzimi Toshiro and Akutagawa Hiroshi (son of
>the famous novelist)), he wrote his first film score in 1947.  Other than
>Godzilla and Zatoichi, he composed scores for over 200 films, including
>Harp of Burma, Quite Duel, many of Yoshimura Kozaburo's films, many of
>the Toho SF movies, etc.  He became a professor at the Tokyo Music
>University in 1974 and from 1976 served for 11 years as president.  He is
>currently (I believe) head of that university's Center for Ethnic Music.
>He has won dozens of awards.  There are dozens of CDs of his work for
>film and not for film and a number of books (that Roland mentioned).
>
>One notable web site on him in Japanese is:
>
>http://www.kushiro.or.jp/shumi/ifukube.html
>
>On a personal note, given my youth of watching Godzilla films on Saturday
>afternoons, Ifukube's music is still very close to my heart.
>
>Aaron Gerow
>Yokohama National University
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