My 10 selections for most beautiful Akira Ifukube melodies!

Another Akira Ifukube melodies documentation video in the series, this time focusing on selections of most beautiful Ifukube melodies! The masterpiece Requiem appears yet again but included in this list are also some rare gems that deserve to be given a listen.

It was kind of hard having to make such selections, provided that what's beautiful for some may be different for others. Some candidates felt beautiful but a bit too tragic or underwhelming.

"The Three Faces" (1955)'s "Main Title track"'s ending is a combination of what's released on CD and the portion with voices at the end. The voices do not interrupt much.

"Disaster – The Mount Tanigawa Records" (1957) has no poster available, so the title card of the movie was chosen for the sake of presentation instead.

"Sacred Mountain Under the Moon" has never been released in full. If I were to try reconstructing the original cue using the movie audio, it'd include loud noises because of the moment the track plays in, so it renders the first few seconds unlistenable by default. Not sure why the full version was never released.

Enjoy!!

0:00 Introduction
0:05 "Main Title"
2:05 "Mizushima's Letter"
5:43 "Natsuyama Memorial"
7:53 "Sacred Mountain Under the Moon"
9:59 "To the Lunar World"
15:15 "Anger of the Earth"
22:12 "Blood Conflict"
26:26 "Lullaby of a Motherless Child II"
29:56 "Ending"
33:39 "Requiem"

All rights go to Nikkatsu Corporation, Iwanami Productions, Daiei Film Co., Ltd., Toho Co., Ltd. and Toei Company, Ltd., as well as Akira Ifukube.