Yubari Fantastic Film Festival 2009 Theme Song "名画座"

Yubari Fantastic Film Festival 2009 Theme Song "名画座" pronounced "MEIGAZA" meaning something like classic film theater in Japanese. The song was written and composed by Cheep Hiroishi and sung with JUNCO. It is an amazing song even if you don't know Japanese. The promotion video that was made for the song and the film festival is also very well made.

You can almost understand the words just by watching the video. Please leave a comment on what you thought about the song and video. It is kinda long running for over 6 minutes, but you still will want to watch it again.

Tribute to Hayshi Testsuji

For all of my readers who follow Japanese music, Discovery has just released a new album paying tribute to one of Japan's most famous song writer and composer, Hayashi Tetsuji (Last name first).

The album is called 4 Tears produced by Cheep Hiroishi and it features 4 cover songs sung by 4 different female artists living on the northern island of Japan, Hokkaido.

The first song is called "September" originally sung by Takeuchi Mariya and cover by CARIN.
The second title is "Mayonaka no Doa" (Midnight Door) originally by Matsubara Miki and cover by Kakimoto Nanae.
The third song is "Senaka" (Back) originally by Misora Hibari, cover by ERINA.
The fourth and final song is "Kanashii Iro Yane" (Sad Color Right?) by Ueda Masaki, cover by JUNCO.

You can listen to the samples at the 4Tears MySpace Music page. Though the songs are kinda old now the new singers bring life back into the words.