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Music from Juuni Kokki stolen or stolen from?


Before I start, I must say I have the utmost respect for the composer of Juuni Kokki for what I believe is an utterly beautiful instrumental score to the series. The series itself, I believe to be one of the truly best Anime ever produced.

Now, I have heard a rumour about a theme from Juuni Kokki being heard in a computer game.

About a year ago, I caught the last ten minutes of a (horrible) movie on tv called "The Void" (starring Amanda Tapping, at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289605/ ), and produced in 2001. Imagine my surprise, when the last few minutes of the film leading into the credits (the scene in the cemetary) feature a track of instrumental music from Juuni Kokki, exactly as heard in 12 Kingdoms! Now, Juuni Kokki came out in 2002, so I wonder who originally came up with the track?

The composer for The Void is Ross Vannelli (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0889227/).

The composer for Juuni Kokki is Yang Bang Ern (aka Kunihiko Ryo).

The instrumental track in question, I believe, is the one entitled "Ko Shinkyou" for those of you who have the soundtracks to the series. It's been a few years, so I could be wrong about which track it was: the track could also be "Ruika" or "Fuushun", but I'm fairly certain the one I heard in "The Void" is "Ko Shinkyou".

I love the music in this series, and it is rather disappointing to find out some of it might have been lifted from some horrible low-budget tv show (or vice versa).

Anyone?

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"Fuushun" track was also used in Heroes of Might & Magic IV. As theme while traveling on the water. HOMM4 was released a bit before then 12 Kingdoms.

I think they all borrow that music from same source. My guess - it is a piece of a national chinese music.

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that's a good guess ;)

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By the way, some of Juuni Kokki soundtrack(not the whole tracks, but fragments of various length) can be heard in new Saiunkoku Monogatari anime. The anime setting is quite alike with Twelve Kingdoms - a fantasy version of ancient China. So probably both soundtracks is based on national music.

I also recommend to watch Saiunkoku Monogatari to all who enjoyed Juuni Kokki. You will like it.

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I'm not so sure about folk music from China - what I heard was note for note, beat for beat, instrument for instrument a duplicate of the soundtrack from 12K...

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Thank god they didn't use chinese opera. As an American chinese, it sounds like cats in heat.

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