© 2002 Lawrence Tuczynski

Title: Dodes' Kaden
Japanese Title: Dodesukaden
CD Label: Toho Music Corporation
CD Number: AK-0010
Music by: Toru Takemitsu
Number of tracks: 20
Running time: 29:27
Number of discs: 1
Year of release/manufacture: Nov. 14, 2002
Year movie released: 1970

REVIEW

Dec. 6, 2002

This soundtrack is from the 1970 movie "Dodesukaden". Clocking in at less than 30 minutes this is the shortest disc in the set. The music is very lite and dreamlike for the most part with a repeating theme that will be very familiar to those people who know the 1968 hit "MacAthur Park" by Richard Harris. The main theme in this soundtrack is almost identical to an instrumental version of that song. When shown in the US this movie was extremely cut. The original running time is 244 min and in the USA it was 140 min.

Dodesukaden (1970) - Tooru Takemitsu

Track translations courtesy of John Cassidy (Daijirou Ryuusei)

  1. Main Title (M1 Performance Track 1)
  2. A Portrait Of The Electric Train (M2 Performance Track 1)
  3. Dodesukaden (M3 Performance Track 4)
  4. Roku-chan Is Running (M4 Performance Track 2)
  5. Heavy Drinkers' Alley (M5 Performance Track 1)
  6. Gates Of The Daydream House (M6 Performance Track 2)
  7. Fences Of The Daydream House (M7 Performance Take 1)
  8. The Rainy Day (M8 Performance Track 1)
  9. The Colors Of The Daydream House's Walls (M9 Performance Track 2)
  10. Balcony Of The Daydream House (M10 Performance Track 1)
  11. Disease (M11 Performance Track 1)
  12. Children On The Verge Of Death (M12 Performance Track 1)
  13. The Dead Tree (M13 Performance Track 1)
  14. The Childrens' Death And The End Of The Morning Water Supply (M14 Performance Track 2)
  15. Pool (15 Performance Take 3)
  16. Ending (M16 Performance Track 2)

    Bonus Track 1 (Extra Version Compilation)

  17. Disease - Extra Version I (M11 Test 1)
  18. Disease - Extra Version II (M11 Test 2)
  19. Suffering Children - Extra Version (M12 Take 3)
  20. Pool - Extra Version (M15 Take 2)