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Title	Japanese Cinema Music Series Works Of Masaru Satoh
CD Label	POLYSTAR / Toho Music Corporation
CD Number	PSCR-5818
Music by:	Masaru Satoh
Number of tracks	20
Running time	72:39
Number of discs	1
Year of release/manufacture	1997

REVIEW

Feb. 19, 2000 This is a pretty decent sounding CD with a good mix of musical styles. The disc is a mixture of Mono and Stereo tracks with Tracks #4, 6, 7, 8, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20 being in Stereo. Track #1 starts off with a feel of live big band era jazz. The type you might hear in a nightclub in the 40's or 50's or maybe even earlier. It then segues into a Mexican/Spanish Flamenco sounding tune which then becomes a march and finally strains of the song "Born Free". Track #2 sounds like jazz harmonica. Track #3 brings us some Sci-Fi sounding music with pieces of Star Trek music. Track #4 is a slow moving, romantic sounding track. Some of the tracks here are duplicates of tracks heard on the "Film Music By Masaru Satoh" series on SLC records. The last few tracks are suspense type tunes. I enjoyed this CD. It offered a wide variety of music types and would be great to have playing as background music or while sitting back and relaxing.

English Title: The World of Masaru Satoh: Original Soundtrack Japanese Title: Satoh Masaru No Sekai: Orijinaru Saundotorakku 1. Sapporo Winter Olympics Giant Slalom Finale 2. The Love and Adventures of Taro Kuroki *1 3. Annular Eclipse *2 4. Long Journey Into Love 5. Outlaws 6. Japan Sinks 7. The Ecstatic *3 8. Official Gold 9. The Lake Harp *4 10. Scalpel *5 11. Hometown 12. Family *6 13. The Yellow Ribbon Award: A Comedy *7 14. Could I But Live 15. Yojimbo, The Bodyguard 16. Man and War, Part III 17. Shinonome-zakura Onna no Ran (English translation is: Cherry Blossoms at Dawn: The Women's Revolt) 18. The Silk Road 19. The Prodigal Son 20. East Meets West *1 The IMDB does not provide a listing for this movie, the Japanese title of which is "Kuroki Taro No Ai To Boken" *2 The IMDB does not provide a listing for this movie, the Japanese title of which is "Kinkanshoku" *3 The IMDB does not provide a listing for this movie, the Japanese title of which is "Koko No Hito" *4 The IMDB does not provide a listing for this movie, the Japanese title of which is "Mizuumi No Koto" *5 The IMDB does not provide a listing for this movie, the Japanese title of which is "Mesu" *6 The IMDB does not provide a listing for this movie, the Japanese title of which is "Kazoku" *7 The IMDB does not provide a listing for this movie, the Japanese title of which is "Koju Hosho' (Track #4, 6, 7, 8, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20 in Stereo)