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Kitaro

Kitaro

出生 : 1953-02-04, Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

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Kitaro (喜多郎 Kitarō), born Masanori Takahashi (高橋正則, Takahashi Masanori) (February 4, 1953), is a Japanese recording artist, composer, record producer, and arranger noted for his electronic instrumental music, and is often associated and regarded as one of the most prominent musical acts of new age music. He is the winner of a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album (Thinking of You (1999); with a record 16 nominations in the same category) and a Golden Globe Award for the Heaven & Earth (1993) original score. Kitaro was born in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan, and is a graduate of Sahid University. After graduating, Kitaro moved to Tokyo to experience and become a part of the music scene, and it was there that he discovered the synthesizer. His first synthesizer was analog, and he recalls having "just loved the analog sound that it made compared to today's digital sound". His parents were first opposed to the idea of their son having a musical career. In an effort to maneuver him towards their vision, they made arrangements for him to take a job at a local company. In return, he left home without telling them. He supported himself by taking on several part-time jobs such as cooking and civil service work, while composing songs at night. In the early 1970s, he changed completely to keyboards. He joined the Japanese music group Far East Family Band which was formed in 1965, and toured with them around the world. While in Europe, he met the German electronica and former Tangerine Dream member Klaus Schulze. Schulze produced two albums for the band and gave Kitaro some tips for controlling synthesizers. In 1976, Kitaro left Far East Family Band and travelled through Asia (China, Laos, Thailand, India). [Wikipedia]

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Kitaro

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緊急事態宣言

Bottle Mail

An omnibus film consisting of 4 short films and a documentary related to COVID-19.

ロマンスドール

Kinji Aikawa

美人で優しい園子(蒼井優)に一目ぼれして結婚した哲雄(高橋一生)は、ラブドール職人として働いていることを彼女に隠していた。哲雄は仕事にのめり込み、園子とはセックスレスになる。ある日、園子がこれまで明かすことのなかった秘密を哲雄に打ち明ける。『九月の恋と出会うまで』などの高橋一生と『彼女がその名を知らない鳥たち』などの蒼井優が共演したラブストーリー。それぞれ秘密を抱える夫婦が、本当の幸せを見つけようとする。『ふがいない僕は空を見た』『お父さんと伊藤さん』などのタナダユキ監督が、自身の著書を映画化。きたろう、渡辺えりらが脇を固める。

化け物と女

Short film in which a village is terrorized by a monster. The local police investigation seems to be getting nowhere. This idiosyncratic film examines social conventions, interaction and bureaucracy.

MIS Human Secret Weapon

MIS Human Secret Weapon

Original Music Composer

When the US Army realized its deficiencies in intelligence operations against Japan in WWII, Japanese Americans were secretly trained to be soldiers of the Military Intelligence Service. They showed their patriotism to US, the nation that had caged their families in the internment camps by choosing to fight against the same race. Not only had they tremendously contributed to America's victory, but also to the successful recovery of Japan using their skill in language. However, the US government had kept their existence as a top secret. Who were these soldiers whom called the Human Secret Weapon?

Original Music Composer

Even though bringing in cameras to the internment camps was prohibited, one man managed to smuggle in his own camera lens and build a camera to document life behind barbed wires, with the help of other craftsmen in the camp. That man was Toyo Miyatake, a successful issei (first generation immigrant) photographer and owner of a photo-shop in the Los Angeles Little Tokyo district, and of one of the many Americans who was interned with his family against his will. With his makeshift camera, Miyatake captured the dire conditions of life in the camps during World War II as well as the resilient spirit of his companions, many of whom were American citizens who went on to fight for their country overseas. Miyatake said, "It is my duty to record the facts, as a photographer, so that this kind of thing should never happen again."

Kitaro: Daylight, Moonlight - Live in Yakushiji

Kitaro: Daylight, Moonlight - Live in Yakushiji

Self

From Domo Records comes this live concert performance by Buddhist musician Kitaro. Kitaro: Daylight, Moonlight - Live in Yakushiji was shot at Japan's Yakushiji Temple and features renditions of such songs as "Silk Road," "Water of Mystery," "Free Flight," "Heaven and Earth," and several others.

The Soong Sisters

The Soong Sisters

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The Soong family was a political dynasty in China that reached the highest levels of power. This film follows the lives of the three Soong daughters, who were educated in America and returned to China. Ai-ling married a wealthy and powerful businessman. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary founder of modern China. Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader during World War II. The sisters captured the world's fascination for their brilliant marriages and their strong influence on their nation.

Kitaro: An Enchanted Evening

Kitaro: An Enchanted Evening

Self

An Enchanted Evening is a live album recorded during Kitaro's world tour in 1995. It features music from his studio album, Mandala, and music from his original score for Oliver Stone's movie, Heaven and Earth. Resonant with exotic Japanese instrumentation along with the more familiar guitar, flute and drums, it shimmers one minute and rumbles the next by turns soothing and stirring, rhythmic and dramatic, yet surprising intimate. It is a unforgettable event with contrasts that takes its cue from nature and spirit drawing refrains of the East and West together.

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ベトナム戦争が勃発すると同時に、レ・リーの運命と呼ぶにはあまりにも壮絶な戦いが始まった。二重スパイ容疑による残忍な拷問、仲間からの非常なレイプ。村から逃亡したレ・リーは、サイゴンで不倫の恋に落ち、妊娠、出産する。子供を抱えて生きるレ・リーの前に、米海兵隊のスティーブ・バトラーが現れる。

パリ、夜は眠らない。

Music

Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza.

Kitaro: Kojiki - A Story in Concert

Kitaro: Kojiki - A Story in Concert

Kitarō

Kitaro has long been one of the leading lights of new age music. This program captures him in a 1990 live appearance from one of his increasingly rare concert tours, performing selections from Kojiki: A Story in Concert, a musical adaptation of legends from traditional Japanese folklore

Return from the River Kwai

Return from the River Kwai

Music

A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an American bomber arrives and destroys it. Camp commander Tanaka wants to set an example and orders that some of the prisoners must be executed. Just in time major Harada arrives with orders that the healthiest prisoners must be transported to Japan by train and boat. A treacherous journey since the allied forces keep a close eye on railroads and practically own the seas.

刑事グラハム／凍りついた欲望

Music

サイコキラーの心理に、自らのそれをシンクロさせて事件を解決するFBI捜査官ウイル・グラハム。その捜査方法は、自己を崩壊させかねない危険なものだった。家族とマイアミで静かに暮らす彼に、FBIから出動要請が。普通の捜査官の手に負えないシリアルキラーが現れたのだ。

Original Music Composer

Back in 1837 in the Northwoods of Canada and beyond, a movement was started among the colonialists to demand the right to own property in the New World. This interesting docudrama follows the tragic outcome of that movement for one of its leaders, the pacifist and nearly beatific Samuel Lount (also the great-great-great uncle of producer Elvira Lount). The orator and journalist William Lyon Mackenzie stoked up the fire among the property-deprived, and a march on Toronto was begun. Lount was convinced to join the rebellion much against his better judgment -- he belonged to the Children of Peace religious sect. Lount's own pacifism meant nothing to the authorities; they executed Lount for treason after crushing the rebellion. R.H. Thomson plays the title role in this low-budget but high-energy effort.

Music

Coral, a Hong Kong woman tortured by city life, went back to her home town to visit her two old friends. They all found that some precious things in life which disappear through the years could never be recovered.

Original Music Composer

1999年。教職のかたわら天文台職員を務める雪野弥生は、実は1000年周期で地球に近づく遊星ラーメタルからの使者であり、その間地球を統治する《1000年女王》の現女王だった。いよいよ女王交代の時が近づくが、そんな矢先、弥生の前に妹セレンが現われ、軌道を外れたラーメタルが地球侵略を計画していることを明かす。母星と地球の間で苦悩しながらも、弥生はついに女王交代を拒否し、地球を守りぬくことを決意する。

Kitaro: The Light of the Spirit

Kitaro: The Light of the Spirit

Self