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title: "Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters 1985 Film"
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# Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters 1985 Film

**Brand:** philip glasskronos quartet
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Product description          I will ship by EMS or SAL items in stock in Japan. It is approximately 7-14days on delivery date. You wholeheartedly support customers as satisfactory. Thank you for you seeing it.             .com          Writer-director Paul Schrader's films are always as memorable for their music as they are for their visuals--sometimes more so. Think of Giorgio Moroder's synthesizers pulsing through Cat People; think of Blondie's anthem for American Gigolo; think of Scott Johnson's remarkable score for Patty Hearst--and think of the full suite of music composed by Philip Glass for Schrader's ode to the deeply conflicted Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima. With its gilded, impressionistic set and its plot-eschewing cinematic vision, Mishima depended upon Glass's compositions for grounding. Despite the Japanese setting, the music is pan-global, typical of Glass's genre-absorbing minimalist style. A standout track is "Osamu's Theme," which features a catchy rock & roll guitar part against a string setting. And the album's quartets feature none other than the Kronos Quartet. --Marc Weidenbaum

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## Customer Reviews

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    ONE OF GLASS'S BEST
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2014*

This wasn’t the first music by Philip Glass that I listened to but it was the first album of his I bought and it’s still one of my favorites by him. Recorded in extract as sound track to Paul Schrader’s brilliant movie, Mishima (in Schrader’s own words, “a mosaic film biography”) it seemed to me then and still seems eminently successful –in stirring up emotions, stressing the elegiac quality—love and peace-- of Mishima’s childhood in the achingly beautiful “1934: grandmother & Kimitake” and contrasting it with the part Western part Japanese bravado of his samurai stage. Everything I associate with Glass happens in this recording: the pulsing lines, simply harmonized, the pulses and crescendos and diminutions, the soft transition from one melody or rhythm line to another. But it works, and that’s not always been true with Glass’s music, in my opinion. (Vide the Low Symphony, based on themes from Brian Eno and David Bowie, and –my personal memory- how hard I found it to sit though a solo concert of his music played by Glasson a night when my contact lenses were driving me nuts –I missed the richness I had found in his orchestral music: without the varying timbres it introduced, his themes seemed monotonous to me).The only drawback to this album –and it’s not a serious one—is that some of the pieces don’t conclude, they simply stop, I suppose because all that was needed for the film had already been taped.I haven’t by any means listened to all of Glass’s many albums but I’ve listened to many and I would rate Mishima one of his best to date, up there with the two violin concertos and his early ballet music.

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    A tidal wave of emotions
  

*by M***Y on Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2019*

This is the greatest Philip Glass film soundtrack. His qatsi trilogy is great, but ver minimal. This soundtrack, he uses every instrument at his disposal. The drums in the opening November 25: Morning sets that stage that these men have made their choice to commit the coup. The fun and uplifting guitar in Kyoko's house only for it to take the turn into the more darker tone of the relationship portrayed in the film. Then the ultimate finally where Mishima would take his own life. To clear the air, it doesn't glorify suicide. On the contrary, you feel the pain and sadness splashed on the canvas of this film and the soundtrack.

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    Stage Blood Is Not Enough, Yo
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2015*

In life, stage blood is not enough ... you also need a good soundtrack. I have loved the movie for over 20 years, not least because of the music. This is the soundtrack I use when I'm working. My soundtrack used to be Shaft, but now it's Mishima.The main theme is strangely reminiscent of the music to Candy Crush -- and I think part of the reason Candy Crush is so successful is that it makes a casual game sound like you are doing something epic.Definitely some of Philip Glasses' most accessible music. I especially like "Stage Blood is Not Enough" -- beautiful classical music for the electric guitar.

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