Ryuichi Sakamoto - Seven Samurai (2004) ►STEREO◄

[NghiaFragile]

Stunning .....................

[mioartkyoto]

一番大好きな曲です！

[SapporoMagokoro]

my name is ryuichi 

[winxcat]

What is the name of that from 1:53 ?

[darklucky16]

I wanna play the piano like Ryuichi Sakamoto and make music that flows through your body and makes you feel at peace.

[vickyobregonm]

Ryuichi Sakamoto tu música llega hasta el alma!!! Es simplemente hermosa y espectacular! Gracias!! Ryuichi Sakamoto your music reach the soul!!! It´s just amazing, spectacular and SO beautiful! Thank you!

[NghiaFragile]

10 people are deaf

[NghiaFragile]

Perfect

[lardosian]

Stunning...

[NippleOfNippon]

Let me clarify. Erhu is a chinese instrument. Not japanese.

[OwnTheCrown]

@NippleOfNippon Oops , my bad ><

[GrandGuru1]

Guys, what is that violin like sounding instrument?? That sound comes up in every traditional japanese song or music and I'm dying to know what it is cause it's absolutely beautiful!

[OwnTheCrown]

@GrandGuru1 I think you meant "Er Hu" . It's like a chinese/japanese violin

[mrcarpetride]

YES COOL2T

I WAS THINKING ABOUT YOU DUCKIE

[FYIize]

This guy is simply a genius for me...he can compose electronic song, techno music, contemporary classical to music that is influenced by cultural heritage...

BRAVO!!

[8GalirielYume8]

<3

[mrcarpetride]

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[cool2t]

@mrcarpetride hopefully u did cum after that long orgasm!

[StellaSJ]

it's so beautiful.

One just needs to listen and think about nothing.

Music like this makes my life better at some point :)

[derek4ur]

@bilgerat313 Do you really feel that way? I felt like the music composed for the film in the first place was a lot better. This piece is so tranquil. It is by far my favorite Sakamoto work, of what I have and am likely to ever hear. But it doesn't hit me as "just right" for the film itself--whereas the music that has gone with the film since its release does.

[S0O0O0O0SPPPP]

日本の誇りです。

[mirandansa]

Terribly beautiful.

[kledder2]

This music makes me want to put on my ninja suit. Kiyaaa!

[rusrita]

beautiful...

[billylol15]

@vladikun i think the instrument is pipa and erhu or something like that,but i dont know about the high pitch sound..as for the genre..if u find more music like this plz send me a message :)

[VladiKun]

Can somebody tell me what kind of genre this is? I would like to find some more music like this..with a traditional chinese sound, you know? I don't know how to describe it. Whatever that string instrument is that is playing..it sounds beautiful.

[millnd12345]

i love to listen this song late night

[Tibidoll]

thats nice..

[auntyena]

Ryuichi is a genius - he can put the real essence of Japan into music! Sugoi.

[bonzose]

soothing instrumental on piano!

[WingChun93]

This game-Seven Samurai 20xx has a lot of epic themes. Example: The battle themes. I've got and played the game. I want to find those epic themes, but I can't. Can anybody tell me where to find them? Can anybody please upload them?

[L0RDFR3NCHY]

Hey here's a thought!!! =D Could you "imagine" if they played music like this in Japan on the radio!!?? I'd move there in a heartbeat ^^'

[Vampirehuskyyy]

it's calming...

[Vampirehuskyyy]

I fell asleep listening to this!

[StatuesBleedingGreen]

I saw him I saw him I saw him LIVE! :D on my birthday no less.

[tzm2019]

can someone tell me please which instruments also are played expect the piano?

[djrobita]

@tzm2019 it may be "Shichiriki - Japanese Ancient Flute" and "Sho - kind of Flute with bundled tubes of ancient Japan" and "Shakuhachi - Japanese Traditional Clarinet" and "Koto - Japanese Ancient Harp" and "Kokyu - Chinese Traditional Violin with one string"

[LuigiKarimElliott]

@djrobita I think there may be a pipa in there as well

[mordecaibe]

This music was played for my first beheading. A marverlous moment.

[EscargoTouChaud]

Cool how it sounds like a voice in the beginning, and then like an instrument. Is it a voice or an instrument?!?!

[LuigiKarimElliott]

@EscargoTouChaud instrument, sounds like a Rhodes of E.piano

[TaLeNTSNiipEZ]

I was bored and decided to look my name up on youtube, and although I'm normally into Dubstep and hardcore techno, I found this quite relaxing and enjoyed it .

[clavicornio1]

The few i've got about the artist is great: He is a so openned mind , so simple and complexe at the same time...Brilliant! A chance for us to have such a genious talking maybe the most universal language human beings are abble to really speak: music.And musci is (as everything in the world) a reflect of what we are.

[AindaMais]

@NemoFitzgerald According to the wiki page of Sakamoto's Chasm album, they are erhu, gu zheng, hichiriki and shakuhachi. I'm no expert, but I think the hauntingly beautiful instrument that starts playing at 0:23 is the erhu. When I heard that part for the first time I got goosebumps.

[phazedgroove]

@NemoFitzgerald I'm no expert on Japanese instruments but i'd say a "Shinobue" (Wind), "Koto" and perhaps a "Shamisen" (String).

[NemoFitzgerald]

What is the name of the traditional Asian musical instrument heard in this song? Does anyone know? I'm curious. 

[jhangirk]

To the 5 that don't like, no taste in music at all.

[pelatrip]

@jhangirk ???

[JustJulala]

Incredible. Thank you.

[1oigigerlung]

@DamitaJo87 yes with some things you are right.. but never give up hope.. there are great young, fresh artists out there, you just have to look in the right corners^^

love this song, thanx for uploading!!!!

lu

[Cheapperi]

This is so beautiful. Sniff.

[keviwevi93]

@DamitaJo87 buddy, you're not looking hard enough. there's not a lack of talent, only appreciation.

[TheSYNTHOID]

The music of this culture is stunningly beautiful.

[krqtos]

@DamitaJo87 Do not fret. Our arts are going through a lull. As of now, mainstream is diluting the potency of a great generation. Time, motivation, and a lack of beauty will return things to normal.

[marcusunlimited]

So many things I love, Love Sakamoto, the Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, this composition, I can't quite visualize this theme at the end of a movie like that though? Maybe the 2004 film version of it was different? Still, I love this moment:)

[whyjoin52]

@marcusunlimited This was the ending theme for the video game, not any film version.

[refugeewc]

@DamitaJo87 Things are always getting worse, eh? Keep looking.

[Mymothercanrun]

@DamitaJo87 You have no idea what you are talking about. John Williams is nothing but a rip off artist, many of his soundtracks stealing the faces off of older classical greats. Harry Potter's soundtrack can basically be summed up by saying Swan Lake, Star Wars borrows heavily from The Planets.

Spielberg is not an inventive film maker by any means. His films don't advance film at all, simply copy the framework of former directors. He's also not interested in art, but money.

[DistinctiveSound]

@Mymothercanrun don't be so judgmental because many could agree to what he's saying and the artists he chose to suggest were his opinion and aren't exactly the point of what he's trying to say but only to provide an idea to relate too. You seem to just speak unconditional nonsense.

[chooseyourfutures]

Art and money should never be connected together .

It's always lead to the worst .

[mornnb]

@chooseyourfutures No it does not a lot of the best art has ben commercial. You only have a problem if the artist lacks integrity.

[chooseyourfutures]

@mornnb　nope , I don't have such prob but what I was trying to say was these days music is running to money too much .

[derek4ur]

@chooseyourfutures thank you for saying so.  you are right, and it is like commenters are falling over themselves saying how authentic, or deeply felt, or, well, just plain swell music is when really the best thing you can say is that it is nice and not very offensive. Money talks.

"The music suffers--but the music business thrives..."--Paul Simon

[Yateist]

That does it. I have to learn to play the erhu.

...

Anyone know where to find a good erhu teacher in Ontario?

[TheDancingSamurai]

epic!!!!!!!!

[XVIIITheMoonXVIII]

@DamitaJo87 I will have to disagree, too many people think "our generation" means Justin Bieber and other popular absurdities, there are fantastic artists in "our generation", it is not because you don't see them on MTV that they do not exist. Also, Sakamoto is great

[uirak]

@DamitaJo87 is like photoshopping all magazines while the models are pretty, but still photoshop them ;) is kinda like that.... like most rappers samples and most bands do covers from other big artists. even if they earn money out of it, still those bands are noobs.... its pitty that the world becomes lazy

[hosinokimoti]

この曲、眠れます。

[tyannkonabeumaize]

@BunchofMovieVideos i am japanese but i think so too.

[catmarauder]

I'm surprised by the no. of people who think the younger generation hasn't produced great art (or artists)--do you spend all your time watching cable TV and listening to FM radio? In truth, the sheer quantity of creative, even idiosyncratic talents in the world right now would inundate culture if given a chance. For simplicity, the major media channels shun these in favor of dumbed-down performers who command greater mass appeal. Talented artists are everywhere, even if you don't see them.

[catmarauder]

As to the suggestion that Tom Hanks or Spielberg are "great": They belong to that group of "cheerful entertainers," not "greats." The others pass as examples of people who have crafted truly beautiful things, but eg, Spielberg doesn't compare to Paul Thomas Anderson, nor does Hanks to Leonardo DiCaprio or James Franco. And if you're looking for a good musician, why not Esperanza Spalding? I apologize for my spirited rant, but I get frustrated when people confuse private experience for "Truth."

[Neurodisco77]

@catmarauder

I get frustrated when people confuse private experience for "Truth".

This is a great answer to dull rantings on youtube and everywhere

[tyjeffries]

@catmarauder you are so right... meanwhile some great talent goes undiscovered...lost amid the mire of that which does float to the surface of popular culture. Its tough to get your voice heard out there...x

[BabyFantasiaxx]

This is too beautiful. Ryuichi Sakamoto is so amazing.

[Hyde0089]

@DamitaJo87 Theres someone born gifted everyday, the question is, will lscoiety shine the light on them, or continue to shine the light on the truly untalented.

[aNEMESYS]

Profondeur et sérénité. Great sound! Hello from Tunisia!

[NeoTokyo2006]

A long time favourite when living in Tokyo, and especially in our mountain house in Gunma Ken!

[MohawkMadness92]

@CheckersnPogo i'll take your word for it and wait till the time comes till music is just as great.

[nicck]

My favourite off of Chasm.

[MohawkMadness92]

i agree with DamitaJoe87. If my generation doesn't start making great music like all these older artist. Then imma feel sad that i was born it the wrong age of time where music was a form of art and not another way to make a quick buck.

[CheckersnPogo]

@MohawkMadness92 That fact that you desire a higher quality of life simply means that this quality you seek will eventually find you... and our world is better for it.

[t3hwasabi]

I can't believe this is game music

[paulyates88]

@DamitaJo87 That's not true man, there are some amazing new directors out there, and all other art forms too, especially music! Your just stuck in the past that's all. ;)

[chise101]

@DamitaJo87

dont fear.. there are some willing to perform for passion, or create for that feeling of happiness.

art is what makes the new generation define themselves.

they will realise in time~

[DarthChuckwa]

@DamitaJo87 It's said that talent skips a generation. But you never know. There may be people even greater in this generation, they're just waiting for the right time to make themselves known.

[kaoristu]

@DamitaJo87 i know what you mean, but this song is still new and he is still producing more music

[22girasole]

THE FIRST SAMURAI IS RYUICHI SAKAMOTO SAN

[IKNOWALLABOUTALL]

@DamitaJo87 Total nonsense. Boring also. Every generation says exactly the same thing. The quality of art has not decreased. Money has always had influence on art. Just look at the Medici in Renaisance period Florence for instance.

The world population is getting bigger, there are and will be more genius now than ever before. Education is better there are more opertunites.

Your observation is lazy and falacious.

[wrybeat]

@DamitaJo87 listen to apparat.

[lilofatazn]

@DamitaJo87 true, true.

[AngelFallsRocks]

Masterpiece of talent.

[AngelFallsRocks]

Stunning piece of music,sheer artistry.

[GuzzaGo]

@DamitaJo87 I agree those people are great talent but that's not mean new generation is not as good. They just translate other ways of arts that might not touch your feeling

[roboforce]

@DamitaJo87

Tarantino, PT Anderson, Coen Brothers, Pixar, DiCaprio, White Stripes, Wong Kar-Wai, Tony Leung--the list goes on. Just go out there and look. =)

[Jewylry]

Ryuichi is a god of music.

[Drozac]

@DamitaJo87 There are still real music lovers in the new generation but big companies are the problem we might never get to feel the real passion with what the ir souls communicate. Its not the musicians but the companies/labels that dont see what we miss out on.

[3choBlast3r]

isn't the movie sever samurai very old, why does it say 2004 or is it simply the name of the song>?

[PDN11141]

DamitaJo 87, I don't think the next generation any less talented, it takes a long time to become a master of an instrument, the paintbrush of music,takes time, focus, experimentation, creativity and dedication but a five year old can make you cry when she plays a simple melody. The passion for art lives under the canopy of all ages,

Ryuichi Sakamoto clearly knows how to string his pearls of music and moves me, I don't know about anyone else.

[patrice8310]

Lovely music.

But these day's people don't really listen to this kind of music.

I want Japanese people to treasure what they have more.

[pickledpeppa]

@patrice8310 How arrogant?

[DevinJMorrison]

@patrice8310 Amen!



[chongyizhi]

the peaceful music really touches my soul when i listen to it...^^

[xxxTOKAREVxxx]

BOMBOOOO TAKE

[DoctorXX9]

great !

[bluemoonson]

i love his music

[studiophoenix]

@DamitaJo87 THANK!!!! Art is the first to go in schools these days. Such a same

[romeropablo]

And you won't believe: but this is the final song of a video game "Seven Samurais"

[Wowbagger86]

@DamitaJo87 Check out indie films and music, look at websites, and in the shelves of the rare record or movie stores that's still not incoporated. And offcourse film festivals and lokal conserts.

[Wowbagger86]

@DamitaJo87 There's much talent in the undergrowt, but it never get to grow tall... to wrap it in methaphors, lol. There's far to many great musichians, film-makers and artists in my generation who stay unknown, unsigned and unemployed cause the studios and record companies just play it safe and keep spewing out the same half chewd garbage they think people want.

[turtguyakadanz]

@DamitaJo87

Dam your so right

All these new artists keep trying to come up with new crap but it's just flat out not good

I commend them for their effort... i guess

But unless they stick to the basics and just let their emotions flow instead of trying to sound/look cool or w/e, they won't do very well lol

Gotta say though, there are some artists that are very promising :D

[kjkjni]

最初聴いたとき鳥肌が立った。

でもこのゲーム最後の方で詰まっちゃったなあ

[nukliozz]

@DamitaJo87 We will do the revolution... don't give up there is a bunch of young people who are masters, coming out!

[Sojio]

@DamitaJo87 We do have many great artists in todays era. It's just, as it was then, hard to find them.

[sentineladosol]

To me the most pleasant and amazing thing in music is when I hear something different..beautiful..superb..­.but at the same time, simple.........this is what I feel listening this music, specially the arrangement. I think that's a bad song doesn't exist.......but a great and unforgettable arrangement, something that you'll listen years later and you will think it was done in that same time. This knowledge and sensibility a few musicians can touch...........Sakamoto touch my heart.

[emmagpies]

sound like "Numb" by Linkin Park

[IgnisWander]

@DamitaJo87 Being of that younger generation, I sadly agree with you. I think It's far easier now to lose your passion for art to the "safety" provided by money. To top it off, none of my friends really appreciate anything artistic in any medium, because it's not cool to show much emotion. Even though there's a tendency to be cynical, I think there are a few new artists out there who still cling tenaciously to that little shred of romaticism :-)

[alaowyn]

tis generation is bullshit

[VashTheStampede525]

ever since ive learned of him years ago, ive always loved everything sakamoto did (including movie acting). hes one hell of a performer and fantastic artist. i emplore you; IF YOU LIKE THIS THEME, LOOK INTO EVERYTHING HE HAS DONE. YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.

[Zento1000]

@VashTheStampede525, not to mention "Merry christmas Mr.Lawrence", he is a brilliant composer.

[piterx87]

beautiful...

[03sankyu]

thank you 4 posting its relaxes me after d' end of the day just by listening at.

domuarigatogusaimaste,

[DJfayann77290]

Ryuichi Sakamoto , you are the best of the best for ever

[goytabr]

@DamitaJo87, maybe I'm suspicious to opine because I'm 49 and people my age start getting grumpy and complaining about the "good old times." I always found that ridiculous but now I find myself falling into the same trap, so I guess human nature just doesn't change... Yet there is some truth in it, so I tend to agree with you. But I also know things are cyclic, so times when true creativity and artistic value are appreciated may return.

[moneymaker831]

@DamitaJo87 : Yes very true.

[HikariEL]

Excellent....! This just annihilated my art block...! Praise to Sakamoto Ryuichi.

[elacueva18]

relaxing music... :)

[LimeGreenxD]

I love the way Sakamoto knows how to makes the listener "feel" the music aswell as making it sound really beautiful

[danielimovic]

@LimeGreenxD sakamoto is the great artist of music film

[TheSaMaNtA86]

Youtube:Stefano Ottomano

[assaf]

beautiful...

[stusie]

Actually he mixes Asian and Western classical music with other global tastes. So therefore could be usng elements of several cultures, including chinese.

[remember5566]

erhu's sad tune can help enhanced the sadness in this piece ,so it doesn't matter whether it is chinese or japanese ,great musician can make use of different instrument to get the piece or feeling they want!

[remember5566]

piano and sho,i m sorry i dont include hichikiri

[remember5566]

let me tell you the instrument use inside mainly are erhu ,shakuhaichi ,hichikiri,guzheng or koto,i can fell it !

[remember5566]

i can feel the chinese elements in this piece!

[taopaipai]

you really can hear the mix of cultures in this, i totally agree remember5566.....

[tengujones]

beautiful

[tengujones]

your bang on the money

[GA1313E]

i agree in some ways, but still i think that there are new people who may not be as good as the old ones at doing the same thing but they will invent something new that the people you admire now would never have thought of, But yes it is sad that people like for exampe Sakamoto have to grow old.

[Nebelung13]

Naturally, i do agree, our culture is in the process of transformation, when we start over again things will get better. history is cyclical.

But i still mantain there are a few bright stars out there, msot of them are not famous, but nonetheless bright.

[Nebelung13]

Well if you tune in to the generation you will find the artists.

[Piscesheart84]

So true

[DerekRostropovitch]

Sublime!!!

[VannevarBush]

Beautiful song. Very nice.

[falcon21386]

its a great song, and i would love to see a movie remake from the classic 1954 version. anime was sweet, but an action movie based off the anime would suck in comparison

[goytabr]

@falcon21386, remaking *anything* by Kurosawa amounts to blasphemy! True that he recycled many things himself - "The Seven Samurai" was influenced by American Western films (and influenced them back), "Ran" (my favorite) is loosely based on Shakespeare's "King Lear", etc. But he didn't *remake* anything. I shudder to think of Hollywood profaning Kurosawa's refinement, subtlety, intelligence, innovation, perfectionism, formal rigor and awesome visual aesthetics! Brrr!!!

[pizzapar]

The sound of it...the texture of it reminds me or should I see makes me imagine how heaven looks like...pure, magical, mysterious and everlasting...

[xCurryPandax]

LOVE IT!! It beautiful...

[Edgar60687692]

somebody sud upload the movie,i look everywere nobody has donthat,i only watch the movie one time and i love it so plzz someone anybody upload the movie(english sub or dub its all good)

[Daisuke283]

just go and buy it if u wna see so badly

[termanogue]

Agreed, that or he should rent it and upload himself...

[sinpack]

Does anyone have the piano sheet for this piece honestly i would be grateful thank you :-)

[Naquioa]

Just beautiful...timeless Sakamoto

[TheJuanR]

Ay ay qué ganas tengo de ir a Japón, de momento, voy practicando con el sencha,el kombucha,etc etc....

Maravilla de música, este hombre es un genio.

[forgetmrblue]

Bravo, je l'aime.

[ChunkehMonkehxD]

I Love This Song.. My Fav

[TANGERBER]

Just lovably, as all composed by Mr. Sakamoto.

[poco70s]

The Japanese is deep Old china.

New Chinese won't learn.

[maxchs]

wrong answer

[aNEMESYS]

J'aime!

[BerlinBunker1]

KOREWA NAN DESKA?