Philip Glass scored both the Candyman films, and the music only got a CD release this year because he was apparently ashamed of
them, but got a lot of requests and changed his mind.

I have some Ifukube classical music and he is quite interesting in that area as well.  His 1985 Violin Sonata is actually built
around music from _Kaiju Soshingeki_ (Destroy All Monsters), which is not surprising, since most composers do this sort of thing if
they write for both genres.

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From: "Lang Thompson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: Kurosawa and Godzilla


> Well, in an odd way Kurosawa did direct Godzilla.  One of the bandits in
> "Seven Samurai" was played by Haruo Nakajima who was also Godzilla in most
> of the films up to the early 70s.
>
> I've also heard that composer Akira Ifukube is considered quite the
> highbrow in Japan and his work on the Godzilla films is seen as somewhat
> mystifying, sort as if Ned Rorem or Milton Babbitt had scored a slasher
> film in the US.
>
>
> LT
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