SHOW / EPISODE

Sake & Tears #6 - Soundtrack Special

3h 32m | Jan 17, 2022

With over 70 tracks and a suitably immersive run time of well over three hours, episode 6 of Sake & Tears is another special, this time focusing on the fertile ground of Japanese film and TV soundtracks. Featuring carefully selected audio from long running weekly Samurai action shows, coming of age dramas, art-house curiosities and a predictably heavy focus on all things crime, this edition runs from nocturnal jazz, gorgeous 90’s ambience, the odd 80's fist clencher and deep into gritty 70’s funk. We have killer cuts from the filmographies of legendary Japanese composers like Kenji Kawai, Joe Hisashi, Shigeru Umebeyashi and Masaaki Hirao with lesser-known work from Daisuke Kume, Chuji Kinoshita and jazz bassist Osamu Shiomura, finishing the show with startling and beautiful rare composition form the incomparable and peerless giant of Japanese film, Toru Takemitsu.

1.-4. – Akihiko Takashima – The Beast Must Die (1980) - AX-7286-AX

5.-10. - Toshiro Mayuzumi – The Beast Must Die (1959) - FJSP330

11.-14. - Shigeru Umebayashi – Let Him Rest In Peace - C28A0412

15.-16. – Daisuke Kume- Violent Cop - CINK-46

17.-20. – Joe Hisaishi – Kid’s Return - PROS-7036

21.-24 – Osamu Shiomura – Death’s In Tokimeki - 20MX 1162

25.-28. - Masaaki Ohmura – “You Gotta Chance” - SM25-5413

29.-32. – Kenji Kawai – Patlabor 2 - WRWTFWW048LTD

33.-36. – Chuji Kinoshita – My Son! My Son! - MR-7053

37.-40. - Hozan Yamamoto & Yu Imai – The Devil’s Flute - MRBLP234

41.-48. - Masaaki Hirao – Deadly Worker Vol. 3 - K22G-7243

49.-52. - Katsuhisa Hattori – Edo No Kaze - HRLP 216

53.-57. - Masaaki Hirao – Mortal Punishment - K23G-7282

58.-61. - Tatsuya Takahashi & Tokyo Union – Big City - MR 7042

62. – Sounds Ace Band – Theme from ‘Oh Youth!’ - YLT132

63. – Sounds Ace Band – Theme from ‘Endless Days’ - YLT132

64. – Anzen Band – Theme from ‘Endless Days’ - BMA-4

65.-67 - Inoue Takayuki Band – Howl At The Sun - AX-8033

68. – Bunta Sugawara – Excerpt from Battles Without Honour and Humanity - CF-49

69. – Unknown – Theme from ‘The Fang of Edo’ - DR-6371

70. – Takeo Yamashita – Theme from ‘7 Detectives’ - DR 6209

71. – Toru Takemitsu – Time Within Memory - KVX-1063

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