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Title |
| The Human Vapor |
| International Title |
| The
Human Vapour |
Music
By:
Kunio Miyauchi
Record Label: SLC
| Running
Time: 55:38 |
Discs:
1 |
| Release:
October 1995 |
CD
Number: SLCS-5067 |
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| Comments |
 |
Anthony
Romero |
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SLC's
release of the score for The Human Vapour,
done by Kunio
Miyauchi, follows the general format of the "Toho
Science Fiction Cult Movie" line. Like the others,
The Human Vapour soundtrack was actually
supervised by its original composer, while the booklet
contains a good deal of information on Miyauchi along
with a brief summary of each theme while also including
production stills from the film (all black and white).
Unfortunately, presentation of the release aside,
the score for this 1960 production just doesn't work
well as a stand alone experience. The soundtrack is
really without any kind of highlight, save perhaps
the "Dragon" tracks that have a nice 1950's
club type of feel to them. The themes themselves are
mostly unmemorable and sometimes rather bland. "The
Demon of Emotion" tends to be the most tiring
of these. The theme itself isn't awful or anything,
as it's done in the Noh theater style with a bamboo
flute, biwa (stringed instrument), chanting and light
drum work. Regretfully, this track drags on for a
whole ten minutes and really begins to overstay its
welcome at the four minute mark, yet it's not even
half over at that point. Listening to the track really
starts to become a test of endurance on the listener,
especially when it sounds like its winding down after
eight minutes only to pick right up again and continue
for two more... then, to add insult to injury, there
is another four minute track with the same music.
In Miyauchi's defense, though, this was only his second
feature length score at the time.
Bottom line, unless one is a collector of the Toho
Science Fiction scores, this one is probably better
passed up in favor of the other more entertaining
soundtracks attached to these features. Fans of Japanese
science fiction might find this release still very
interesting to hear though, since Miyauchi reused
some of these themes for his work on the Ultraman
show, with the most notable example being the "Ending"
cue that would later be used for the death theme to
Jiras.
Rating:  |
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| Tracks |
- Main Title (M1)
- Itsukaichi Highway Pursuit (M2)
- The Beauty with the Devil's Mask (M3)
- Dragon 1 (M4)
- Terror at the Mikuni Bank (M5)
- Crime Wave (M6)
- Solo Investigation (M7)
- Tailing (M8)
- Fujichiyo's Secret (M9)
- The Kyodo Bank (M10)
- A Series of Incidents (M11)
- Dragon 2 (M12)
- House Investigation (PS62)
- The Man who Turned Himself in (M13)
- The Human Vapour Emerges (M14)
- Declaration of the Human Vapour (M15)
- Horror of the Human Vapour 1 (M16)
- Fujichiyo and the Human Vapour 1 (M17)
- Kasuga's Bond (M18)
- The Human Vapour Arrives (M19)
- Doctor Sano (M20)
- 240 Hours (M21)
- The Creation of the Human Vapour (M22)
- Despair and Hope (M23)
- The Human Vapour is Immortal (M24)
- Fujichiyo and the Human Vapour 2 (M25)
- Fujichiyo's Thoughts (M26)
- The Demon of Emotion 1 (PS115)
- Horror of the Human Vapour 2 (M27)
- The Fate of the Demons of Emotion (M23A)
- The Demon of Emotion 2 (PS115B)
- The Moment Approaches (M28-T1)
- Ending (M28A)
- The Demon of Emotion 1 EX (PS115)
- The Demon of Emotion 2 EX1 (PS115B)
- The Demon of Emotion 2 EX2 (PS115B)
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