Akira Ifukube, 91, the composer who brought the giant movie lizard Godzilla to life with a trademark anthem and high-pitched roar, has died. He was 91. Ifukube died Wednesday of multiple organ failure ...

Akira Ifukube, best known in the West as the composer of the “Godzilla” theme, died Feb. 8 in Tokyo of multiple organ failure. He was 91. Born in Kushiro, Hokkaido — Japan’s northernmost main island — ...

The latest incarnation of “Godzilla” hits cinemas exactly one week from today. And, as the most famous “daikaiju” (a word which, I know, sounds like a sneeze, but is actually Japanese for “giant ...

Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910-1997) created Godzilla with the help of three other key people. He was joined in his efforts by film director Ishiro Honda, special effects expert Eiji Tsuburaya and composer ...

Inoue Makoto’s delightfully simple description, spoken softly from behind his synthesizer, didn’t quite do justice to the strange beauty of what went down last Friday at Japan Society, when the ...

Last year, the Criterion Collection put out a massive box set of all the original Showa-era Godzilla films, and now those 15 films’ soundtracks are getting a new vinyl box set. As Exclaim! notes, ...