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HURRICANE POLYMAR: SUNSHUKE KIKUCHI Soundtrack on the Survival Research label from Europe.  
Survival Research present a reissue of Shunsuke Kikuchi's Hurricane Polymar Original Soundtrack, originally released in 1981. Shunsuke Kikuchi is one of the best-known composers of background music for Japanese television and film soundtracks. Born in 1931 in Hirosaki, located in the far north of the main Japanese island of Honshu, Kikuchi enjoyed a long and illustrious career that began in the early 1960s, having presided over dozens of popular soundtracks into the new millennium, including those for the Dragon Ball series as well as various Gamera monster films. A graduate of the Nihon University College of Fine Arts and Music, Kikuchi is largely associated with anime and effects-laden tokusatsu films, along with action dramas, and jidaigeki period films. Whether crafting up-tempo action themes or slow background pieces for long-running television series, establishing the reputation that any television show featuring his music was bound to hit. One of his songs, "Urami Bushi", from the Female Convict Scorpion series, ended up in the soundtrack of Kill Bill. He is the recipient of various awards, including a lifetime achievement award, granted in 2015 at the Japan Record Awards. The Hurricane Polymar series of action anime was initiated in 1974, the plot concerning a crime fighter with a special suit that allows him to change shape while wearing it. This soundtrack album is drawn from the original 1974 TV series, with all manner of tense music for fight scenes, heroic fanfares saluting and other semi-electronic incidental interludes, highlighting the irresistible allure of Kikuchi's atmospheric compositions.
A1. 魔人・怪人・大ドロボー A2. 国際警察庁向カイNo.1ビル地下・車探偵事務所 A3. ポリマー誕生の秘密 A4. ザ・ブリッジ A5. 恐怖の訪問者 A6. 赤い正義の影ひとつ A7. 長官・ポリマー・探偵長 B1. 事件だ!チャンスだ!車錠 B2. 俺は二代目シャーロック B3. ホラマー誕生の秘訣 B4. 事件が俺を呼んでいる B5. 危うしポリマー B6. タイフーンホラマーここに参上 B7. 一件落着
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