Take 5

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

There's just something about Japanese composers.

I fell in love with this piece the first time I heard it. It seems to be apt music for a rainy December evening, watching raindrops roll down the window pane.


I watched part of the movie once - it had David Bowie as a POW in a prison camp, WWII.

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence



Here's the actual movie trailer



The next one is by Joe Hisaishi famous for his Studio Ghibli compositions. From Totoro, completely enchanting, enthralling and absolutely beautiful. Just makes me think of green rice fields in Fujiyama.



I liked this one so much that I could hum it to Mich months after my trip to Japan (they were playing it on the radio). I remember being half-drunk (I had quite a number of beers with my host father) and attempting to get the composer's name and title by humming a supremely out of tune version of this to my hosts. I must have tickled them to no end.

Kikujiro's Summer

posted by leo @ 10:06 PM