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ORIGINALLY LISTED AS MINT/MINT, SINCE THEN I HAVE DISCOVERED THIS HAS A HAIRLINE SCRATCH MARK ON THE FRONT COVER. I HAVE REDUCED THE PRICE DUE TO THIS. 

The Last Samurai marked master screen composer Hans Zimmer’s 100th score, and it was and is perhaps his best.

The 2003 film starred Tom Cruise as a Civil War soldier who travels to Japan and becomes embroiled in the clash between the Imperial Japanese Army and traditional Japanese samurai culture, lending Zimmer ample opportunity to display his unparalleled ability to fuse orchestral, Westernized elements with indigenous motifs (in this case, utilizing the traditional Japanese taiko drum for action sequences and the shakuhachi  flute and koto for more pastoral passages).

Fans of his work in The Thin Red Line will particularly enjoy this soundtrack, which, for being a score for an action film, includes long stretches of beautifully contemplative soundscapes (Zimmer liked it too, as “The Last Samurai Suite” appears on his new live album).

This is the first time this soundtrack has been released on vinyl, as a double-album housed inside a gatefold jacket and pressed on Gold vinyl.

Limited to 1000 copies.

Track Listing:

A1. A Way of Life
A2. Spectres in the Fog
A3. Taken
B1. A Hard Teacher
B2. To Know My Enemy
B3. Idyll’s End
C1. Safe Passage
C2. Ronin
C3. Red Warrior
D1. The Way of the Sword
D2. A Small Measure of Peace

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