| The Last Samurai [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] | ![The Last Samurai [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lc5qXPs4L._SL160_.jpg)
| Artist: Hans Zimmer
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Sales Rank: 1,916
Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 4 3 00062932
Model: 075596293228
UPC: 075596293228
EAN: 0075596293228
ASIN: B0000DZTIW
Release Date: November 25, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | SOUNDTRACK THE LAST SAMURAI |
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| Tracks:
| • | A Way Of Life | | • | Spectres In The Fog | | • | Taken | | • | A Hard Teacher | | • | To Know My Enemy | | • | Idyll's End | | • | Safe Passage | | • | Ronin | | • | Red Warrior | | • | The Way Of The Sword | | • | A Small Measure Of Peace |
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Product Description
SOUNDTRACK THE LAST SAMURAI
Amazon.com
Whether Tom Cruise's portrayal of a 19th century American soldier cum samurai warrior will be remembered with the same pangs of pop-cultural bemusement that befell John Wayne playing Genghis Khan remains to be seen. But its musical soundtrack does mark an auspicious occasion: pop musician-turned-composer Hans Zimmer's 100th score since beginning his film career in 1988. A pioneer of fusing both the electronic and orchestral and the Westernized with the indigenous, Zimmer does both here with skill, drawing heavily on samples of the traditional Taiko (a massive Japanese drum) for its rhythmic action sequences, while constructing a melodic Western motif for Cruise's character that's both centerpiece and counterpoint for the score's transcultural intent. Aside from the brief, ominous thunder of the expected action/suspense boilerplate, Zimmer has constructed passages of gentle, Asian-inflected pastoralism that have parallels with much of his evocative work on The Thin Red Line. Those cues are the score's very soul, a canvas against which his more traditional themes reverberate all the stronger. --Jerry McCulley
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