Composer Hattori Katsuhisa has been a respected figure in the Japanese music industry for many years. He is most well known in the US for composing anime soundtracks for popular television shows and movies such as Crest of the Stars (1999) and Fist of the North Star (1986), but he’s also had a long career composing music for Japanese films.
In 1969 he composed a terrific soundtrack for Yoichi Maeda’s little known film Nanatsu no kao no onna (aka The Woman with Seven Faces) which starred Shima Iwashita, Ken Ogata and Ichiro Arishima. We’ve never seen the movie ourselves and haven’t been able to find out very much about it, but we do know it has a great soundtrack!
Hattori Katsuhisa’s score for Nanatsu no kao no onna ranges from Bossa Nova, to Easy, to Beat and contains some commanding horn arrangements, nice vocalisms, sweeping strings, interesting violin work, subtle flute and driving beats. We’ve uploaded two complimentary tracks from the Nanatsu no kao no onna score that soundtrack enthusiasts should enjoy.
500,000,000 JPN by Hattori Katsuhisa
Sept-Elle-Meme by Hattori Katsuhisa
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Hi T3rtium Quid & Cinebeats!!!!!
First of all, congratulations for your great site and thanks veryvery much for linking to my Spanish lounge music blog. I will add yours too to my links list.
I have been listening to some tracks, amazing!, but i want more & more, and i ask you: will you post whole albums any day? It will be great for people like me who have not access to these old japanese vinyl gems. If you prefer exchange old music, we can do it by mail.
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Comment by phil musical — June 21, 2006 @ 11:33 am
Hey where is the updates??
Comment by Lush — August 20, 2006 @ 7:43 am