Akira Ifukube Movies

1950s Japanese drama.

Wolfman instantly appears from behind some trees where he is reputedly abused by armed Japanese army tanks, he allegedly flees and later battles...

A mining engineer investigates the deaths of his colleagues, discovering prehistoric nymphs and a creature capable of flying - and wreaking havoc -...

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate...

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their...

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

1955 short film

Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of holding the weather trackers as hostages and...

1954 Theater of Life adaptation.

Depicted in a mostly playful manner, a gagaku-fantasy as never ever seen before!

Akira Ifukube has arranged music from his fantastic films into a three-movement symphony, presented here with scenes from the films the music was...