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NEWS: Mamoru Oshii's Musashi Samurai Film Trailers Streamed

wow this looks really cool, can't wait to see it!!
does anyone know who sings the song in the trailer?

leatherrebel wrote:

wow this looks really cool, can't wait to see it!! does anyone know who sings the song in the trailer?

ha, that's what i was wondering...he sounds really familiar but I can't quite figure it out...probably doesnt help that it's 5 am here and i havnt slept yet >.<

hopefully this film will be less boring than skycrawlers

does anyone know who sings the song in the trailer?

Talking about music, the theme song for this movie is written and performed by Shigeru Izumiya. We've heard that it was your specific choice.
Nishikubo: That's correct. This movie focus on The Book of Five Rings, that was written by Musashi when he was between 60 and 62 years old. Izumiya-san is about the same age, so I thought that he could interpret Musashi's feelings better than any other artists. I also thought that he had strikingly resemblance with Kiichi Inukai, the 3DCG generated Musashi expert that appears in the movie.

Izumiya: Oh, sure. Am I supposed to feel flattered with that, then? (lol)

Nishikubo: Seriously, I used to listen to Izumiya-san's music since his song Shunkashuto (Spring Summer Fall Winter, 1972), and I thought that the energy and passion he's endlessly pouring in his multifaceted artistic career after he has entered his 60s was somehow overlapping with Musashi, so I could not think of a better songwriter.

wow this looks really cool, can't wait to see it!!
does anyone know who sings the song in the trailer?

Okay, I'm slightly confused: what was the CG wooden dowel figures in the middle? Is that actually going to be in the movie? Or is that a demonstration of how they made the animation??

Also, am I the only person who really didn't like the song that played in this? I mean, it's not bad, but it seemed an odd match to the animation.

Talking about music, the theme song for this movie is written and performed by Shigeru Izumiya. We've heard that it was your specific choice.

Nishikubo: That's correct. This movie focus on The Book of Five Rings, that was written by Musashi when he was between 60 and 62 years old. Izumiya-san is about the same age, so I thought that he could interpret Musashi's feelings better than any other artists. I also thought that he had strikingly resemblance with Kiichi Inukai, the 3DCG generated Musashi expert that appears in the movie.

Izumiya: Oh, sure. Am I supposed to feel flattered with that, then? (lol)

Nishikubo: Seriously, I used to listen to Izumiya-san's music since his song Shunkashuto (Spring Summer Fall Winter, 1972), and I thought that the energy and passion he's endlessly pouring in his multifaceted artistic career after he has entered his 60s was somehow overlapping with Musashi, so I could not think of a better songwriter.

(*) Rokyoku is a genre of traditional Japanese narrative singing. Generally accompanied by a shamisen, rokyoku became very popular in Japan during the first half of the 20th century. For this movie, director Nishikubo commissioned the rokyoku parts to a professional performer, Takeharu Kunimoto, who added several western instruments to the traditional shamisen sound.

vashfanatic wrote:

Okay, I'm slightly confused: what was the CG wooden dowel figures in the middle? Is that actually going to be in the movie? Or is that a demonstration of how they made the animation?? Also, am I the only person who really didn't like the song that played in this? I mean, it's not bad, but it seemed an odd match to the animation.

It was explained here.

That's not much of an "explanation." There's a 3DCG character in it?? Even though the rest is two-dimensional? Why?

leatherrebel wrote:

does anyone know who sings the song in the trailer?

The theme song in the trailer is by Shigeru Izumiya.

From http://productionig.com/contents/works_sp/69_/s08_/000936.html:

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Talking about music, the theme song for this movie is written and performed by Shigeru Izumiya. We've heard that it was your specific choice. Nishikubo: That's correct. This movie focus on The Book of Five Rings, that was written by Musashi when he was between 60 and 62 years old. Izumiya-san is about the same age, so I thought that he could interpret Musashi's feelings better than any other artists. I also thought that he had strikingly resemblance with Kiichi Inukai, the 3DCG generated Musashi expert that appears in the movie. Izumiya: Oh, sure. Am I supposed to feel flattered with that, then? (lol) Nishikubo: Seriously, I used to listen to Izumiya-san's music since his song Shunkashuto (Spring Summer Fall Winter, 1972), and I thought that the energy and passion he's endlessly pouring in his multifaceted artistic career after he has entered his 60s was somehow overlapping with Musashi, so I could not think of a better songwriter.

hopefully this film will be less boring than skycrawlers