Today, I would like to share with you the theme song from the movie Departures (Okuribito) by Yojiro Takita. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2009 Oscars. This is probably the best movie I have watched this year. It touches on one of the taboo subjects in Japan and yet the director had sensitively and beautifully brought out the subject. The theme song by Joe Hisaishi is simply enchanting and powerfully moving.
This is a beautiful piece of music by Ryuichi Sakamoto taken from his Trio World Tour in 1996. The first time I heard this piece of instrumental piece over the radio, I was driving. I fell in love with it instantly. I managed to catch his last name ‘Sakamoto’ and tried to Google for more information last night. It wasn’t a problem at all. The Youtube video of it came up in search.
After listening to it, I knew it in my heart that I wanted to share this beautiful instrumental piece with you.
As described by other Youtube’s users: “it seems time is going by so slowly as you listen to this,” “it makes me…..so warm inside,” “it’s like the last thing anyone needs to complete their lives” etc. How do you like it?
Updated 14 July, 2009: The video below was shared by one of the commentors. The video was the vocal version of the above piece of music by Ryuichi Sakamoto. The vocal version was performed with David Sylvian. The name of it is Forbidden Colours.
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