Music producer Tetsuya Komuro attended the "Stage Greeting for the Film 'Heaven and Earth' & Announcement of the 'Kadokawa Film Music Festival' Lineup" held at Kadokawa Cinema Yurakucho (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), which is currently hosting the "Kadokawa Film Festival," on May 11th.
Kadokawa Pictures, which began with the release of "The Inugami Family" on November 13, 1976, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with the "Kadokawa Film Festival," which started on May 1st at the same venue (until September 17th).
Komuro composed the music and sang the theme song for "Heaven and Earth," a 1990 period drama film directed by Haruki Kadokawa and one of Kadokawa Pictures' representative works. Hiroshi Nomura, who appeared in the film, also made an appearance at the stage greeting and reminisced about the time of its release 36 years later.
Komuro revealed that he was personally offered the music for "Heaven and Earth" by director Kadokawa, and recalled, "I wondered if I was good enough." He also spoke of his memories of visiting the filming location in Calgary, Canada, and after listening to the music again, he said that he was still immature when he was in his twenties when he created it, and that he would like to do it again.
The lineup for the "Kadokawa Film Music Festival," to be held on August Getsuku at Bunkamura Orchard Hall (Shibuya Ward, Tokyo), has also been announced. Komuro will also be performing at the festival, and will be singing. Singers Marine and Yoshitaka Minami, who will also be performing at the festival, and Sora Fujii, the brother of singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii and a jazz trumpeter and pianist, were also in attendance.
