© 2002 Lawrence Tuczynski

Title: AKIRA KUROSAWA'S WORLD (original soundtrack) HIGH & LOW / RED BEARD
Japanese Title: KUROSAWA AKIRA NO SEKAI: RIARU SAUNDOTORAKKU (TENGOKU TO JIGOKU/AKAHIGE)
CD Label: Toho Music Corporation
CD Number: AKS-2
Music by: Masaru Satoh
Number of tracks: 12
Running time: 50:09
Number of discs: 1
Year of release/manufacture: 2002

REVIEW

April 12, 2002

This 1st bonus CD in this set is listed as stereo. The first track is the main theme from "Red Beard" and tracks 2 through 5 are dialogue tracks that sounds as if they are from the same film (based on my faulty memory). These 4 tracks are pretty much devoid of music. Track 6 is a track with female vocals (wailings) in the background mixed with sound effects from the film. I believe this is from "High And Low" (also known as "Heaven And Hell "). Track 7 is another movie dialogue track that is definitely from "High And Low" and is the scene where Mifune receives the call from the kidnappers saying they have his son. He then discovers his son is there and that the kidnappers have mistakenly taken the chauffeur's child instead. Tracks 8 & 9 are also dialogue tracks from "High And Low" with almost no music. Track 10 is almost identical to track 6. Track 11 is a mixture of music and dialogue and track 12 is all dialogue.

Track Translations courtesy of Jolyon Yates

AKIRA KUROSAWA'S WORLD (original soundtrack) HIGH & LOW / RED BEARD

BONUS DISC 2

    HIGH & LOW (Based on Ed McBain's 'King's Ransom')

  1. HIGH & LOW Titles
  2. Telephone Menace (Challenge from the Kidnapper)
  3. Gondo's Determination
  4. Business from the Super Express Train ~ Rescue
  5. Drug Sighs
  6. Moonlit Arrest
  7. End

    Staff
    Scr Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima, Eijiro Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa
    Dir Akira Kurosawa
    Mus Masaru Sato 

    Cast
    
Kingo Gondo		Toshiro Mifune
Reiko Gondo		Kyoko Kagawa
Jun Gondo		Egi Toshio
Inspector Tokura	Tatsuya Nakadai
Chief Inspector		Taguchi	Kenjiro Ishiyama
Inspector Arai		Isao Kimura
Kawanishi		Tatsuya Mihashi
Criminal		Tsutomu Yamazaki

    RED BEARD(Based on Shugoro Yamamoto's 'Red Beard Consultation')

  8. RED BEARD Theme
  9. Fighting Poverty & Ignorance
  10. Sahachi & Onaka
  11. Prayer to the Underground
  12. Red Beard's Successor

    Staff
    Scr Masato Ide, Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa
    Dir Akira Kurosawa
    Mus Masaru Sato

    Cast
    
Kyojio Niide (Red Beard)Toshiro Mifune
Noboru Yasumoto		Yuzo Kayama
Handayu Mori		Yoshio Tsuchiya
Sahachi			Tsutomu Yamazaki
Onaka			Miyuki Kuwano
Otoyo			Terumi Niki
Choji			Yoshitaka Zushi