© 2002 Lawrence Tuczynski

Title: AKIRA KUROSAWA MOVIES SINGLES COLLECTION
CD Label: Toho Music Corporation
CD Number: AKS-3
Music by: Various
Number of tracks: 15 (14 music & 1 video)
Running time: 55:24
Number of discs: 1
Year of release/manufacture: 2002

REVIEW

April 12, 2002

This 2nd bonus disc is listed as stereo. I'm pretty sure the two bonus discs in this set and the one in Volume 1 are ONLY available in the box sets. The other discs can all be purchased separately. Tracks 1, 10, 13 & 14 are vocal tracks that sound as if they are cover versions of the originals. I believe this disc to be made up of a mixture of single tracks from the movies as well as cover versions put out by other artists. The disc also contains a short video file in mpg format that gives a quick glimpse of Kurosawa and then has Masaru Satoh conducting the main theme to "Red Beard".

Track Translations courtesy of Jolyon Yates

AKIRA KUROSAWA MOVIES SINGLES COLLECTION

  1. SEVEN SAMURAI Samurai Music song (Fumio Hayasaka)
  2. SEVEN SAMURAI Samurai Music (Fumio Hayasaka)
  3. SEVEN SAMURAI Wheat Harvest Music (Fumio Hayasaka)
  4. THE BAD SLEEP WELL (Masaru Sato)
  5. YOJIMBO (Masaru Sato)
  6. SANJURO Young Samurai Theme (Masaru Sato)
  7. SANJURO Sanjuro's Theme (Masaru Sato)
  8. SANJURO Tsubaki Sanjuro & The Nine Young Samurai (Masaru Sato)
  9. SANJURO Station Theme (Masaru Sato)
  10. SANJURO Tsubaki Sanjuro & The Nine Young Samurai song (Masaru Sato)
  11. RED BEARD Main Theme (Masaru Sato)
  12. HIGH & LOW Bar Music (Masaru Sato)
  13. DERSU UZALA Eagle's Ballad (Isaac Swartz)
  14. SEVEN SAMURAI Samurai Theme song (Fumio Hayasaka)
  15. RED BEARD Main Theme (Masaru Sato)