Gohatto [Soundtrack] [Import]

Product Description
Sountrack Composed by Sakamoto for Director Nagisa Oshima's Film Starring Takeshi Kitano.

Gohatto,Ryuichi Sakamoto,Wea International,Electronic,Japan,Pop,Progressive Electronic,Rock/Pop,Soundtracks & Film Scores

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Average customer rating: Haunting...yet eerily pleasurable "Ryuichi Sakamoto's masterful score of Samurai"

Taboo (Gohatto)(1999 Film) Ryuichi Sakamoto Manufacturer: Milan Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000523KV Release Date: 2000-11-21

Tracks:

1. Gohatto: Opening Theme
2. Souzaburoh
3. Taboos
4. In Bed
5. Execution
6. Match
7. Gate
8. Temple
9. Suggestion
10. Affair
11. Murder
12. Supper
13. Funeral
14. Persuasion
15. Prostitute
16. Assassination
17. Duty
18. Ugetsu
19. Killing
20. Gohatto: End Theme
21. Gohatto: Piano Version

Customer Reviews:

Haunting...yet eerily pleasurable.......2001-04-21

I was fortunate enough to watch this movie at the Music Box Theatre here in Chicago. Besides the haunting look in Sozaburo's eyes, one could easily become transfixed by the well-penned Ryuichi Sakamoto soundtrack.

I own a few scores sketched by Sakamoto, but I can definitely tell you that this one easily took me to a dark place, in a most perplexing yet pleasurable way.

July 17th, 2001. I've had my copy for a few months now and I want to slap myself for only giving this cd 3 stars at first. It's a masterpiece that has inspired me to write my own soundtrack. I've since collected Mr. Sakamoto's "High Heels", "1996", "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" and they are treats. The striking stabs and minor riffs are indeed mood altering... and are the perfect match for what's happening visually in the film.

If you are able to go beyond the gay themes in the movie, hopefully you'll be able to see that sometimes beautiful things are evil in the way that they bring out the worst in us.

"Ryuichi Sakamoto's masterful score of Samurai".......2001-01-08

Milan Records presents this awesome score of Sakamoto's for "Taboo" (Gohatto), from master filmmaker Nagisa Oshima with this revisionist Samurai epic...film is set in 1865 during critical times in Japanese history, a struggle between tradition and internationally minded government. With breath-taking cinematography by Toyomichi Kurita, takes on epic proportions with an outstanding cast of actors...this film was screened in competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.

Our composer, Ryuichi Sakamoto who gave us - "The Last Emperor" (1987)(Academy Award Winner)..."The Sheltering Sky" (1990)..."High Heels" (1991)..."Tokyo Decadence" (1991)..."Little Buddha" (1993) and "Wild Palms" (1993)...is up for another challenge with this captivating score.

For "Taboo", Sakamoto uses every electronic sound from elaborate to technical for dramatic and mood swings for his cues...lightness in tone, softer, with mid-range support of counterpoints, rising and falling synthesized tones. The opening theme "GOHATTO" is almost mesmerizing...completely spell-binding with shades of outside control, very effective for Oshima's screenplay...the last two tracks "GOHATTO:END THEME" and "GOHATTO:PIANO VERSION" are simply superb.

Hats off to our friends at Milan for releasing this original score, as for my fellow "film-score-buffs", this is a keeper...and that's my final answer!

Total Time: 65:00 on 21 Tracks...Milan Records 35928...(2000)

Average customer rating: Music and Image in Perfect Unison Ryuichi Sakamoto's new album and Gohatto Soundtrack

Gohatto Ryuichi Sakamoto Manufacturer: Wea International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Japan | Far East & Asia | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Electronic | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Soundtracks | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Wild Palms Alexei and the Spring ASIN: B00003CX19 Release Date: 2000-01-11

Tracks:

1. Gohatto (Opening Theme)
2. Souzaburoh
3. Taboos
4. In Bed
5. Execution
6. Match
7. Gate
8. Temple
9. Suggestion
10. Affair
11. Murder
12. Supper
13. Funeral
14. Persuasion
15. Prostitute
16. Assassination
17. Duty
18. Ugetsu
19. Killing
20. Gohatto (End Theme)
21. Gohatto [Piano Version]

Album Details

Sountrack Composed by Sakamoto for Director Nagisa Oshima's Film Starring Takeshi Kitano.

Customer Reviews:

Music and Image in Perfect Unison.......2000-11-22

If you are like me, then you have already seen the film GOHATTO. With that in mind, then purchasing this CD (though expensive it may be) is a necessary step in helping you keep the haunting images of the film fresh in your minds. Sakamoto's music for GOHATTO is nothing short of astounding. The score is both hypnotic and charged, minimalist and experimental, ice-cold, but with a heartbeat.... With that in mind, the music remains the perfect complement to the film by Nagisa Oshima. Naturally, one may ask oneself, "Why the heck should I spend up to $50 of my own money to purchase this CD, the movie for which hasn't even seen a wide theatrical release in the USA?" Good question. The answer is simply that Sakamoto has created a work that, while perfectly complementing the film, stands on its own two feet as music that can exist independent of its original intention as a movie soundtrack. Like his work for MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR LAWRENCE (also with Oshima), Sakamoto's GOHATTO score is based on simple synthesizer chords all surrounding a simple pulse for its rhythm. Instead of letting the music meander in this over-simplicity, however, Mr. Sakamoto uses unusual sounds, such as a wolf howl or a rattle, to create an eerie mood that can only suggest almost supernatural overtones. The result is not only a refreshing mixture of the calm and the creepy, it is also a masterful work of mood and tempo. This score not only does justice to the great film that is GOHATTO, it also serves to be yet another jewel in the Sakamoto Ryuichi crown.

Ryuichi Sakamoto's new album and Gohatto Soundtrack.......2000-08-20

Why I wish to buy this Soundtrack? I also don't know. May be just because I wish to see the movie--Gohatto (Taboo) too much, but I can't get this movie. I just only heard three parts/songs of it, it sounds very fantastic, it can bring out some feeling about mystery, what the whole movie wants to express. If I can imagine the movie through the musics, why can't you?

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