Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
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The Last Princess theme song announced
14 March, 2008 (1 comment)Famed Japanese rocker Tomoyasu Hotei, RnB singer Kreva and bassist Seiji Kameda (of the band Tokyo Jihen) have been announced as working on the theme song for Shinji Higuchi’s remake More...
Toru Takemitsu documentary
14 March, 2008 (1 comment)A documentary on the soundtrack work of Toru Takemitsu has appeared on YouTube. You can watch the first part here, and follow the “Related videos” links to continue with parts More...
Akira Kurosawa, the Band
4 December, 2007 (1 comment)Apparently, there is a metal band that goes by the name Akira Kurosawa. Hailing from Victoria, Australia, they have a MySpace page with three songs and two YouTube live videos More...
Progressive Rock: The 7 Samurai - The Ultimate Epic
31 March, 2007 (8 comments)This has somehow slipped past my radar, but let it be known now that last October the music labels Colossus and Musea presented a progressive rock album called The 7 More...
Fumio Hayasaka’s Seven Samurai and Rashomon recordings in MP3
25 November, 2006 (4 comments)Like some of the online streams of Kurosawa’s movies that I have liked to recently, the following will be something that is strictly speaking not entirely legal. Bear that in More...
Takemitsu downloads
11 June, 2006Psst. If you follow this link, you arrive at a blog called Classical Connection that specializes in making out-of-print classical music available. And even more interestingly, you end up on More...