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― Please tell us how you requested the main theme from Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Since I was thinking of making "Burry Zone" a drama, I wanted to ask Ryuichi Sakamoto music. The length and weight of 30 years since the end of the war, the multifaceted theme of war and economic recovery, family, and love, the overall sense of scale... I thought that it would not be possible for an ordinary musician to think about music that can carry all of them. Regardless of whether or not it will be realized, I imagined (Sakamoto's music) from a fairly early stage.
Specifically, I probably consulted with a record company about two years ago. There were various shapes that could be considered, whether you were acting as a play accompaniment, whether it was a production-related relationship, or whether you would like to write down one song, but regardless of what kind of shape it is, this work is for this drama anyway. I asked if you would like to write a song that matches.
I met Mr. Sakamoto and explained the concept and theme of the work, and as a result, I was asked to write down the main theme.

-What kind of request did you make to upload the song?

It's a deep story with a lot of multifaceted elements, so I want a variety of frontiers in music. We requested that the drama with sounds such as war, economic growth, work, family, and romance seemingly inextricably coexisting in one drama be expressed in sound.
In other words, rather than focusing on one theme, it seems that various melodies, developments, tempos and rhythms are incorporated into one song. While there are many completely different themes, it is one work called "barren zone" that draws all of them, so the music is not a single theme, but rather a large theme while expressing various themes. I told you if you could include such elements.
I expected Ryuichi Sakamoto a stimulatory chemical reaction, to see in what form the free talent of various musical genres to come and go without borders would express this complicated drama. ..

-What are your thoughts on listening to the completed main theme?

Although I made an unreasonable request such as songs that can be interpreted in various ways according to the various themes of the drama, the main theme that came up was just a scale that expresses the strange life of one man. It was a big music. Anger, despair, sorrow, forgiveness, love, and various emotions seem to be condensed in the beauty and profoundness of classical music, the jazz sprint reminiscent of the 60's, and the mixed music.

Fuji TV's 50th anniversary commemorative drama, which is the final drama of the series, is being broadcast on Fuji TV's Thursday 22 o'clock frame for half a year from October 2009.
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The stage is Japan from the end of World War II to the astonishing high economic growth aimed at recovery. After the harsh experience of 11 years of Siberia detention, the main character Tadashi Iki (Toshiaki Karasawa), who is often caught in the rough seas of business as a trading company man on the front line, conflicts with various people surrounding him, I will carefully describe the universal themes that are common in today's times, such as hatred, pure love, remorse, and jealousy.
The main theme and other music that plays in the play play an important role in further encouraging such a heavy and heavy drama.