【Hinomaru Soul】 released in 2021

The 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, the group ski jump that had a 99.9% gold medal in hand, and the last big stall jump of Harada ended up in a silver medal.

If you are in your mid-40s or older, you may remember the malicious interview with Harada, the personal attack that is impossible in sports now.

This movie is centered around Jinya Nishikata (Kei Tanaka), one of the players who won the silver medal at the Lillehammer Olympics.

Nishikata encouraged Harada (Takayuki Hamatsu) who had stalled and vowed to win the gold medal at the Nagano Olympics four years later. I will end up.

Nishikata, who won the final race before the selection and was convinced that he would be selected as the representative, is overwhelmed by anger and regret.

At one point, Nishi was trying to quit skiing, but at the request of the Ski Association, he decided to participate in the Nagano Olympics as a test jumper.

The number of test jumpers gathered was 25, except for Nishikata and Minamikawa (Gordon Maeda), who had fallen as representatives. Even so, each of them is a young man who volunteered for the Nagano Olympics with a dream, and he trains every day. On the other hand, only Nishikata and Minamikawa (Gordon Maeda), who have fallen out of the national team, will enter the Olympics without being able to dispel the humiliation of going behind the scenes.

And Nishikata, who watches over the competition, wishes Harada’s first jump to “fall!” In his heart.

And once again, Harada’s big stall jump puts him in 4th place, and the gold medal is far away.

Before the second jump, a blizzard occurred and the competition was interrupted. Whether to resume the second competition or to decide the ranking based on the results of only the first competition, the judge who made the referee said, “If all the test jumpers can fly safely, the competition will resume.”

It will be left to the gold medal of the reversal or 25 test jumpers in the 4th place or the 2nd run.

Since it is a movie of the most famous story in the history of the Olympics, I wrote about the story, but with the support of so many test jumpers, I was surprised that Harada’s “Funaki” scene was born. Becomes hot.

I’m still dissatisfied with the script, which was greedy to spot all the characters, but it’s a movie that makes me cry. Please prepare two handkerchiefs.

Last but not least, I don’t think I’ll be watching the Tokyo Olympics anymore.

『BUTCH CASSIDY and the SUNDANCEKID』released in 1969

It was my first encounter with a movie called American New Cinema, and it was also a movie of my encounter with music Burt Bacharach.

Certainly, when I was in the first year of junior high school, I was addicted to macaroni western, and I watched it at the movie theater hoping that it would be a similar movie (not in real time, lol), but it was a completely different movie. It’s been ten years since I bought the soundtrack LP for the first time, and it’s still on the shelves of my parents’ house.

If you ask me to give you my favorite movie, I can make some candidates, but I would like to give this movie that has the best matching of images with music. I think there are many people like that.

The other day, Billy Joe Thomas, who sang the theme song “Raindrops Keep Fallin”, passed away.

The idyllic scene of Paul Newman and Catherine Ross riding two bicycles in the movie, “Even if it gets wet in the rain” (two bicycles in the soundtrack), is too famous.

I was still a kid, but I remember watching the stylish images, the stylish adult lines, and the nice background music.

This time it was a memorial BJ Thomas.

The movie is about 1890, a real outlaw, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid.

Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), who leads a well-known robbery group, is a bright and good-spoken man. Butch’s companion was Sundance Kid (Robert Redford), who made a name for himself as a gunman with a quiet and quick shot without any amiability in contrast to Butch.

The brilliant chase and sheriff hired by Union, which was damaged by the robbery of the round-trip train, will be relentlessly chased.

Butch, who thought he couldn’t escape from the chase, could speak Spanish, and Bolivia invited Sundance to fly high because of the good economy of the old gold rush, and he also rides Sundance.

Sundance lover Etta (Catherine Ross) accompanied them on the condition that they did not see only the place where they died, and they arrived safely in Bolivia on a luxury steamer, but …

The sleek lines, the coolness of Paul Newman and Robert Redford, and the beauty of Catherine Ross are still my dreams.

Thank you Robert Redford, Catherine Ross and Burt Bacharach for still alive.

Every time Burt Bacharach comes to Japan, I go to see it, but I would like to expect him to come back to Japan when Corona is over.

I like the song “Abandoned House” that plays when Etta leaves the two in the second half of the movie. Ask me to raise it in the music column next time.

Pavarotti Taiyo no Tenor Released in 2020

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I watched a documentary program featuring Pavarotti’s life and

I remember being impressed to hear Pavarotti sing “Nessun dorma” at the opening ceremony of the Turin Olympics for the first time. Later, it turned out that he was lip-synching, and he died while various speculations flew around, saying that he was illand his voice was not at a level that he could show live. I remember thinking that was a life-threatening performance for him ..

I watched this movie with only such knowledge, but I was really fascinated by Pavarotti’s background from the beginning of this movie by director Ron Howard.Taking the opportunity to replace a sick star singer, how Pavarotti become a major singer and his private life are depicted in the film.

Not only the co-starring scene with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras, who are said to be the three miraculous Tenors, but also the session with Bono of U2 iswonderful. Pavarotti begged him to write a song, and Bono reluctantly accepted it, and they went to Modena, Pavarotti’s hometown and sang together “Miss Sarajevo”,which is a very moving scene.

The friendship with Princess Diana is also mentioned in the movie, which shows Pavarotti’s feelings at her funeral when he refused to sing because he was too sad to sing.

Most of the documentaries of the big music stars have a tragic life, but this movie is a proof that the big star Pavarotti survived with all his might.

It’s July! Now in the middle of the rainy season. I want the rainy season to end soon. When I walk in the rain, the hydrangeas that are in full bloom in the neighborhood encourage me to do my best like a cheerleader’s pompom. Delusions are important.
This year, I’ve shortened my hair so much that I’m free from the problem of twirl due to the humidity, and I want to liven up myself and survive the rainy season! Contrary to the mood, please listen to this song that is moist and melancholy today. Bossa Nova Guitar Master Luis Astrud Gilberto sings a song from the movie of the same title by her Bonfa.

There was a time when I was listening to Latin music in the dark clouds, longing for people who seemed to have fun. Bright, cheerful and passionate. I also went to various events because I wanted to be a friend, but I couldn’t keep up with the serious glue and couldn’t make friends at all.
I’m sure I like to get excited by myself, eh, I’ll dance by myself! I still do it occasionally so that no one can see it.
“Sin Ti” means “without you” in Spanish, so it’s perfect for me as a lonely person. Good songs are fun, but I like mellow songs!

This time, we will deliver “Not Goin’Home Anything” from the soundtrack of the movie “Butch Cassidy to Tomorrow” by Burt Bacharach, a great musician who has produced many famous songs at the request of the movie column.

There is a sad feeling in the gentle and gentle tune that starts with the accordion.

I think that the soundtrack has a feeling for the song only after watching the movie, but this song is also the same, but I listened to the cover song before I knew the original, and after that, oh! Is this also a Bacharach song? No wonder it comes nicely ~ ♪ I think it’s selfish.

Bacharach’s songs are instrumental, sung by various artists, self-covered, and there is a wide variety of songs that you can listen to without getting bored.
I also have a lot of favorite songs and I can’t squeeze them, so I would like to continue to take care of Bacharach in the music column from time to time ♪

For a while, every time I heard a word, I had something to think about. It’s a mambo.
Speaking of Mambo, it is King of Mambo, Perez Prado.
Mambo’s representative song, Mambo No.5. Even though he is a conductor, he enjoys moving around the stage and dancing. Besides No.5, there is also No.8. There doesn’t seem to be any songs with other numbers.
I don’t know what the story is about, but there is a faster version here. I’m not very busy. Please listen to both and compare them ♪

Golden Week is also in the middle. Around this time when you start to feel the feeling of early summer, it is the time when you start to see signs of summer by saying Japanese “Rikka”, and it seems that Lixia comes around 5/4 to 5/6 every year, and this year it comes on 5/5. ..
Drew has a lot of things I don’t know yet.

Today’s song is Otis Redding’ｓ masterpiece “(Sittin’On) The Dock of the Bay” covered by Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66.
The song is a melancholy song in which the main character sits in a cove and looks at the sea, but this cover song starts with a moody intro and makes you want to sway your body from side to side with your fingers.
Please listen while swinging with your favorite drink ♪

At times like this, I want to feel cheerful!

Drew, who basically likes songs that are melancholy or sad, thought. It shouldn’t be dark here. But it’s better to be a little modest than to be too energetic … At that time, I remembered this song.

Brazilian musician Chico Buarque’s 1966 song is sung by Nara Leão, a bossa nova muse also from Brazil.

It calms me that she isn’t singing so vigorously ~ ♪

A marching band will pass! Let’s go see it! It’s a song called.

I hope that day will come back as soon as possible! ︎