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All the Lovers in the Night Playlist
20 tracks
dramatic
Oct 17, 2026
A cinematic, mostly instrumental arc for Fuyuko’s solitary nights: spare piano and Japanese ambient music suggest the quiet routines of contemporary Tokyo, while shadowed score pieces give shape to loneliness, desire, and the effort of finding connection. The three closing songs turn toward the book’s intimate emotional questions—how to be seen, how to live with solitude, and what it means to want closeness.
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20 songs
1
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Ryuichi Sakamoto · Playing The Piano
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2
Bibo no Aozora
Ryuichi Sakamoto · Playing the Piano 12122020
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3
Umebayashi: Yumeji's Theme (From "In the Mood for Love")
Shigeru Umebayashi · Mirage
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4
Light Dance
Akira Kosemura · How My Heart Sings
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5
Blink
Hiroshi Yoshimura · Music for Nine Post Cards
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6
Brooks Was Here
Thomas Newman · The Shawshank Redemption
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7
Road To Perdition
Thomas Newman · Road To Perdition (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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8
Define Dancing
Thomas Newman · WALL-E (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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9
The Hours
Philip Glass · The Hours (Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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10
Rather Lovely Thing
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis · The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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11
Song for Bob
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis · The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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12
Dance For Me Wallis
Abel Korzeniowski · W.E. - Music From The Motion Picture
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13
The Ludlows
James Horner · The Ludlows
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14
The Gravel Road (from "The Village")
James Newton Howard · Imitation Games Vol.4
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15
The Shape Of Water
Alexandre Desplat · The Shape Of Water (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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16
On the Nature of Daylight
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
The Departure
Max Richter · The Leftovers: Season 1 (Music from the HBO Series)
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19
Opus 23
Dustin O'Halloran · Piano Solos, Vol. 2
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