Top 100: Best bits of music from South-East Asian cinema

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I didn't understand a second of 2046 but I kept watching because of the wonderful soundtrack. There are many many bits of music from Japanese and Korean films that I really really like. Also, could anyone point me towards any composers who work in this style?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

100. Xavier Cugat - Perfidia
(from 2046)

99. The Last Waltz (I think it's this - it's the baddy's theme tune)
(from Old Boy)

98. One Summer's Day - Joe Hisashi
(from Spirited Away)

97. Howl's Moving Castle Main Theme

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Toru Takemitsu is a good place to start with this kind of stuff.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

japan=se asia?

― nikki weber (nikudnik), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

96. Kaneda - Geinoh Yamoshirogumi
(from Akira, the whole gamelan-influenced soundtrack is pretty fantastic)

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

japan=se asia?

just to differentiate between the British meaning of Asian (i.e. Indian) and the US version (ie South-East Asia).

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

'asian' may change but 'asia' doesn't; se asia = vietnam/laos/malaysia etc

my favourite north-east asian film music ;0

95 the theme from mizoguchi's 'sansho dayu'
94 takemitsu's theme to teshigahara's 'woman in the dunes'
93 excerpt's from jim o' rourke's 'eureka' used in shinji aoyama's eponymous film, inspired by the album name which was in turn cribbed from the roeg film
92 the opening of hou hsaio hsien's 'millenium mambo'; some anonymous techno as shu qi wanders along an overpass in taiwie, in slow-mo, you see; it works, you know
91 joe hisashi's discordantly, gloopily pretty theme to takeshi kitano's 'hana bi'

― nikki weber (nikudnik), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

92 the opening of hou hsaio hsien's 'millenium mambo'; some anonymous techno as shu qi wanders along an overpass in taiwie, in slow-mo, you see; it works, you know

OTM. I think it's Giong Lim, who scored a couple other Hou films maybe and Jia Zhang-ke's The World.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

If we can count northern Asia...

90. The scene towards the end of Platform where Ruijuan dances alone in her office to Theresa Teng.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

89. that moment where anthony wong gets on an elevator in "full contact" and public enemy is playing (lasts all of five seconds, but it's awesome)

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

88. The music that goes over and over in In The Mood For Love. Haven't seen it lately but I remember it as quite beautiful.

― strom (strom), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

87. The entire Oldboy soundtrack - I'm not a fan of film score music but I'll actually put this on and listen to it.

86. Song at the end of Miike's Visitor Q - Crap movie but that track is fantastic.

85. Happiness of the Katakuris - c'mon it's a zombie murder mystery musical, how can you go wrong?

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

84. All the pop songs in Linda Linda Linda. James Iha's score is pretty meh, though.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

The theme song from Tokyo Drifter. I'd like to hear Scott Walker do that. In the original Japanese, of course.

― Soukesian (Soukesian), Thursday, 29 June 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

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