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Before the Coffee Gets Cold Playlist
by 川口俊和
A cinematic passage through the café’s quiet intimacy, where the present holds steady while memory and longing gather force. Japanese film-score textures, piano, strings, and measured electronic pulses evoke the story’s Tokyo setting and the bittersweet rule that a visit to the past cannot change the present; the final songs turn toward the people we wish we could meet again.
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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
Comptine d'un autre été, l'après-midi
Yann Tiersen · Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Bande originale du film)
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3
La valse d'Amélie
Yann Tiersen · Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Bande originale du film)
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4
A Window to the Past
John Williams · Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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5
The Chairman's Waltz (From "Memoirs of a Geisha")
John Williams · A Time for Us (Silence, on joue!)
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6
The Secret Wedding
James Horner · Braveheart (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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7
The Gravel Road (from "The Village")
James Newton Howard · Imitation Games Vol.4
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8
The Ludlows
James Horner · The Ludlows
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9
The Departure
Max Richter · The Leftovers: Season 1 (Music from the HBO Series)
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10
Elegy For The Arctic
Ludovico Einaudi · 12 Songs From Home
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11
Una Mattina
Ludovico Einaudi · Una Mattina
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12
The Path of the Wind
Joe Hisaishi · My Neighbor Totoro Sound Book
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13
One Summer's Day
Joe Hisaishi · メロディフォニー
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14
The Sixth Station
Joe Hisaishi · Spirited Away Soundtrack
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15
The Blue Notebooks
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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16
Written on the Sky
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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17
A Model of the Universe
Jóhann Jóhannsson · The Theory of Everything (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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18
Flight from the City
Jóhann Jóhannsson · Orphée
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19
The Promise
Michael Nyman · The Piano: Music From The Motion Picture
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