Hikaru Hayashi

[Peter Larson]

Because we here in the US can't afford to buy it from Japan.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
[mailto:owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu]On Behalf Of Nuzumaki
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 11:58 AM
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Re: Hikaru Hayashi


hi,

i am wondering why they release a criterion dvd of onibaba, when there is
already a perfect japanese release (which couldnt be better).
i tried to check out if anythin from Hikaru Hayashi is downloadable ... but
nothing.

regards

nuzi


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Gray" <loaded_films at yahoo.co.jp>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: Hikaru Hayashi


> Chuck,
>
> Caught Kaneto Shindo's latest film "Fukurou" ("The Owl")
> today at the Tokyo Film Festival, and wrote a bit about it
> for the festival's daily newsletter. The score was by
> Hikaru Hayashi, who is still alive. I don't know much
> about him, but the music was very effective and quite
> stark. He's done over a hundred film scores.
>
> Shindo, who was there for a q&a session, is now 91 and
> still making movies...amazing.
>
> jg
>
>
>  --- Chuck Stephens <cougar71 at well.com> からのメッセージ
> ：
> > Watching ONIBABA in preparation to write something
> > about it for an
> > upcoming Criterion DVD release, I was surprised --
> > delighted, really
> > -- to recall that the composer of the film's score
> > -- mainly
> > freefalling drum solos and occassional scat/spazz
> > hoots and hollers
> > -- is none other than Hikaru Hayashi. Hayashi is
> > probably my all-time
> > favorite Japanese soundtrack scorer, particularly
> > since I had a
> > chance to see Oshima's amazing "Treatise on Japanese
> > Bawdy Song"
> > ("Nihon Shunka-ko") and "Three Ressurrected
> > Drunkards" ("Kaette kita
> > yopparai") at the Pusan film festival last year. Can
> > someone there in
> > Japan tell me what Hayashi material is available on
> > CD, particularly
> > collections of his work for films? I know he is
> > (was?) also a
> > prolific composer of modern classical works, though
> > I've not heard
> > any of it. Is someone here acquianted with the
> > classical side of his
> > work, and might care to describe/reccommend some of
> > it for me? Is
> > Hayashi still alive?
> >
> > thanks much,
> > Chuck
> >
> > [I have to vague feeling I've posed this question
> > here before;
> > forgive me if, esp Aaron, you've already answered
> > this question in
> > part for me. I looked through all my old email and
> > can't find a reply
> > if indeed there was one at an earlier date.]
>
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