[h2]Honorable Mention: Akira Ifukube and Ishiro Honda[/h2]
I am not hugely knowledgeable about Ishiro Honda and Akira Ifukube’s entire bodies of work – they collaborated on 20 total films together – but I do know that Honda is the man who gave us this:
And that Ifukube is the genius who wrote this fantastic musical theme for the character:
And I think that collaboration alone deserves at least an honorable mention spot on this list. For all the things that make Godzilla great, his main musical theme may be my very favorite thing about the character, and if you go back and watch the original 1954 Godzilla, or many of the sequels Ifukube scored, you will quickly discover that the brilliance of the music extends far past the central theme. Again, I do not know quite enough about either of these men to put them on the main list, but their partnership certainly deserves an honorable mention.
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