Ikiru - In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city and the legacy of his existence.
Record Of A Living Being - Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is so frightened and obsessed with the idea of nuclear extermination that his family decides to have him ruled incompetent. Nakajima's fervent wish is for his family to join him in escaping from Japan to the relative safety of South America. Harada, a civil volunteer in the case, sympathizes with Nakajima's conviction, but the old man's irrational behaviour prevents the court from taking his fears seriously.
The Lower Depths - In a slum flophouse, a collection of beggars and thieves bewail their lot in life, and Osugi, the landlady, fights with her sister, Okayo, over the man they both desire, the thief Sutekichi.
World Premiere recordings! The complete scores to each of these films.
Living Original Soundtrack = Ikiru
Music: Fumio Hayasaka
1 "Living" Title Back (M-1 T2)
Composed By – Fumio Hayasaka *, Shinpei Nakayama *
2 Petition turning (M-3 T2)
3 Sign of waiting room (M-4 rotating nobashi completion sound)
4 Diagnosis (M-5 rotating nobashi completion sound)
5 Recollections 1 (M-6A)
6 Recollections 2 (M-6B)
7 Recollections 3 (M-6C)
8 Recollections 4 (M-6D)
9 Recollections 5 (M-6E)
10 Ball of Life (M-7)
11 Gondola Song - Cafe -
Composed By – Shinpei Nakayama * Lyrics By – Isamu Yoshii
12 strip show
13 Toyo Watanabe (M-8)
14 Home Road (M-9)
15 Mitsuo's irritation (M-9A)
16 Unoccupied Citizen's Section Chief's Seat (M-10)
17 What I can do (M-10A T2)
Composed By – Mildred J. Hill, Patty Smith Hill
18 Gondola Song - Park -
Composed By – Shinpei Nakayama * Lyrics By – Isamu Yoshii
19 "Living" Ending (M-26)
Bonus track
20 Waiting room sign - Normal sound - (M-4 T3 original sound OK)
21 Diagnosis - Normal sound - (M5 original sound OK)
22 What I can do - Another version - (M-10A)
Composed By – Mildred J. Hill, Patty Smith Hill
Record Of A Living Being Original Soundtrack
Music: Fumio Hayasaka
23 "Record of Creatures" Title Back (Title)
24 Late night guitar (guitar)
25 Slow Mambo (M-2 Slow Mambo)
26 Srollumba (Srollumba)
27 "Record of Creatures" End Title (Unused, End)
Bonus track
28 Main theme for trailer of "Record of Creatures" (Trailer)
29 Star Music (Trailer)
30 Mambo Melan Korea (M-1 Mambo Melan Korea)
31 Duck Mambo (Duck Mambo)
The Lower Depths Original Soundtrack = The Lower Depths
Music: Masaru Sato
32 "Donso" title sequence (DB-1 bell sound)
33 Idiot Hayashi Ichi (PS-12-N)
34 Idiot Hayashi 2 (PS-21-8)
35 "Donso" End Title (DB-29 Hyoshigi)