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A melancholic, cinematic journey between Lee’s haunted refuge in modern Japan and Sen’s perilous world in 1877. Japanese film-score textures, spare piano, and uneasy ambient pieces evoke the sword ferns, the house’s impossible threshold, and the two characters’ grief and divided loyalties; three vocal tracks close on exile, vengeance, and dread.
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20 songs
1
Umebayashi: Yumeji's Theme (From "In the Mood for Love")
Shigeru Umebayashi · Mirage
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2
Rain Tree Sketch II
Toru Takemitsu · Water
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A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden
Toru Takemitsu · Takemitsu: Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden (A)
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kensuke ushio · A Shape of Light "A Silent Voice the Movie" Original Soundtrack
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5
The Gravel Road (from "The Village")
James Newton Howard · Imitation Games Vol.4
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Corridors of Time
Yasunori Mitsuda · Piano Collections: CHRONO TRIGGER, Vol. 2
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The Streets of Whiterun
Jeremy Soule · The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Original Game Soundtrack)
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Secunda
Jeremy Soule · The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Original Game Soundtrack)
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9
The Path of the Wind
Joe Hisaishi · My Neighbor Totoro Sound Book
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10
One Summer's Day
Joe Hisaishi · メロディフォニー
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11
The Last of Us
Gustavo Santaolalla · The Last of Us
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12
The Choice
Gustavo Santaolalla · The Last of Us
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13
First Sleep
Cliff Martinez · Solaris (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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14
The Imitation Game
Alexandre Desplat · The Imitation Game (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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15
The Danish Girl
Alexandre Desplat · The Danish Girl
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16
Atonement
Dario Marianelli · Atonement OST
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17
Kiri
Monoral · Turbulence (International)
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18
2046 Main Theme
Shigeru Umebayashi · Best Kept Secrets (Part 2)
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19
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kensuke ushio · A Shape of Light "A Silent Voice the Movie" Original Soundtrack
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