The Last Emperor
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Composer: Ryuichi SakamotoComposer: David Byrne
Composer: Cong Su
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Import, Soundtrack
Published: 1997-05-26
CD Release Date: 1987-11-09
Music Label: EMI Europe Generic
Soundtracks:
- First Coronation
- Open the Door
- Where Is Armo?
- Picking up Brides
- Last Emperor [Theme Variation 1]
- Rain (I Want a Divorce)
- Baby (Was Born Dead)
- Last Emperor [Theme Variation 2]
- Last Emperor (Theme)
- Main Title Theme (The Last Emperor)
- Picking a Bride
- Bed
- Wind, Rain and Water
- Paper Emperor
- Lunch
- Red Guard
- Emperor's Waltz
- Red Guard Dance
Free Music Notes for The Last Emperor
Free Music Review: Delights in the Forbidden City
Hit: 5 Stars
"The Last Emperor" is one of the most stunning soundtracks ever made. It's an amazing collaboration between Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (of the Yellow Magic Orchestra) and David Byrne (New Wave,the Talking Heads) Sakamoto took on Western sensibilities. Byrne explored the subtleties of Eastern music (he has gone on to write the "Big Love Hymnal" for the second season of the HBO series)
The opening theme of "The Last Emperor" characterizes the whole movie- the bittersweet, melancholy life of Pu Yi, China's last emperor. It embodies the Forbidden City in its twilight years. When Pu Yi is torn from his parents to be enthroned as a living god, the soundtrack depicts his pain. There's the sensuality of Pu Yi taking his wife and his concubine. The music also shows his depravity in his puppet kingdom of Manchukuo,as well as his wife's decline in opium addiction. The pomp and circumstance of the opening themes is supplanted with the militaristic uniformity of the Communists. "The Last Emperor" soundtrack is powerful in its depiction of Chinese history.
"The Last Emperor" gets the diadem as one of the best soundtracks ever composed.
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