INCLUDES 9 BONUS TRACKS

Akira Kurosawa’s epic historical adventure drama "Seven Samurai" (1954) has consistently ranked highly in critics’ lists of the greatest films, such as the BFI’s Sight & Sound and the Rotten Tomatoes polls. It has remained highly infl uential, widely regarded as one of the most remade, reworked, referenced fi lms in cinema. It was most famously remade in Hollywood as the western The Magnifi cent Seven in 1960.

The story takes place in 1586 during the Sengoku Period of Japanese history, and it follows the story of a village of farmers that hire seven ronin (masterless samurai) to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops.

"Seven Samurai" stars Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo, and has poignant music by Fumio Hayasaka, all of which is presented on this release. NHayasaka died of tuberculosis shortly after in 1955 at the age of 41. Hayasaka’s complete music for the 1955 Kurosawa film "I Live in Fear" [aka Record of a Living Being], which was the last score the composer made before his death (it was completed by Masaru Sato, who would continue working with Kurosawa), has been added here as a bonus.

All music composed & conducted by FUMIO HAYASAKA
Orchestrations by Fumio Hayasaka & Masaru Sato.
Recorded in Tokyo, Japan, 1954.

(*) BONUS TRACKS: I LIVE IN FEAR [aka Record of a Living Being]
All music composed & conducted by FUMIO HAYASAKA & MASARU SATO.
Recorded in Tokyo, Japan, 1955.

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

01 THE SEVEN SAMURAI (MAIN TITLE)
02 TO THE LITTLE WATERMILL
03 SAMURAI SEARCH
04 KANBEI & KATSUSHIRO / KIKUCHIYO’S MAMBO
05 RIKICHI’S TEARS / WHITE RICE
06 TWO SEARCH FOR SAMURAI
07 GOROBEI
08 LET’S GET TO IT
09 FISHING FOR SLIPPERY FISH
10 SIX SAMURAI
11 EXTRAORDINARY MAN
12 MORNING DEPARTURE
13 JOURNEY LANDSCAPE / OUR STRONGHOLD
14 WILD WARRIOR’S COMING
15 SEVEN MEN COMPLETED
16 KATSUSHIRO & SHINO
17 KATSUSHIRO COME BACK
18 BED CHANGE
19 IN THE FORES OF THE WATER GOD
20 WHEAT FIELD
21 KANBEI’S ANGER
22 INTERLUDE
23 HARVESTING
24 RIKICHI’S TROUBLE
25 HEIHACHI & RIKICHI
26 FARM VILLAGE SCENERY
27 WEAK INSECTS INTO SAMURAI WAYS
28 FOREBODING OF BANDITS
29 TO THE NIGHT ATTACK
30 FLAG
31 SUDDEN CONFRONTATION
32 MAGNIFICENT SAMURAI
33 BANDITS SIGHTED
34 KIKUCHIYO RISES TO THE OCCASION
35 REWARD
36 TRYST
37 MANZO & SHINO
38 RICE PLANTING SONG
39 ENDING
40 I LIVE IN FEAR (MAIN TITLES) (*)
41 LATE NIGHT GUITAR (*)
42 SLOW MAMBO (*)
43 SLOW RHUMBA (*)
44 PREVIEW MAIN THEME (*)
45 STAR MUSIC (*)
46 MAMBO MELANCHOLIA (*)
47 DUCK MAMBO (*)
48 END TITLES (*)