Toshiro Mayuzumi 黛敏郎 - Monday Girl (Getsuyobi no Yuka) 月曜日のユカ
Country: JapanLabel: Super Fuji Discs / Disk Union
Released: 7 Aug 2009
Genre: Electronica / Classical / Non-Music
Details:
(Japanese Edition with paper Obi strip)
About Toshiro Mayuzumi 黛敏郎
Japanese composer born on February 20th, 1929 in Yokohama. He studied at Tokyo University of Art and Music and Le Conservatoire de Paris. Mayuzumi organized the “Three Composers’ Group” in Tokyo and was a pioneer of contemporay music in the 1950s. Among these achievement was making some of the first electronic music in Japan at NHK Studios. Eventually he was best known for his film soundtrack, of which he composed over 100. He died on April 10, 1997 in Kawasaki.
About the Film
Getsuyobi no yuka (Monday Girl). 1964. Japan. Directed by Ko Nakahira. With Mariko Kaga, Akira Nakao, Takeshi Kato. Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettling character for a changing but still patriarchal society.
About the Soundtrack (Japanese Only)
仏ヌーベルバーグに大きな影響を与えた鬼才、中平康(監督)×コケットな魅力の“小妖精”加賀まりこ(主演)による刺激的な映像美の逸品。
音楽は中平と並ぶモダニスト、黛敏郎。よく知られたテーマ曲に加え、黛ならではの独特なダンス・ジャズ曲(今ならクラブ・ヒット)に、白昼夢のような音響作など、日活所蔵6ミリ・マスター・テープから本編全27テイク収録、さらにNGテイクなど漏らすことなく12曲を加えて構成。加賀まりこ本人による(テーマの)ハミング・ナンバーが白眉。
解説:鈴木治行(作曲家)
