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Tokyo Love Story was adapted into a Japanese television drama in 1991 which aired on Fuji Television in 11 episodes and one special between January and March 1991. The television drama starred Yūji Oda, Honami Suzuki, and Narimi Arimori, and its theme song "Love Story wa Totsuzen ni" by Kazumasa Oda is the 9th best-selling single in Japan.
"La Mer" ("The Sea") is a song by the French composer, lyricist, singer and showman Charles Trenet. The song was first recorded by the French singer Roland Gerbeau in 1945. When Trenet's version was released in 1946, it became an unexpected hit and has remained a chanson classic and jazz standard ever since.
"Love Story wa Totsuzen ni' (ラブ・ストーリーは突然に, lit. Sudden Love Story) is a song by Japanese singer Kazumasa Oda. The song, his best-known work, is featured as the B-side on the single "Oh! Yeah! / Love Story wa Totsuzen ni", the ninth-best-selling Japanese single since 1968, selling approximately 2.7 million copies to date. [1]
"Beyond the Sea" is the English-language version of the French song "La Mer" by Charles Trenet, popularized by Bobby Darin in 1959. While the French original was an ode to the sea, Jack Lawrence – who composed the English lyrics – turned it into a love song.
A song from the album, titled "Tomoshibi", was used as the theme song for the 2020 drama Tokyo Love Story. [8] He released the EP Hadaka no Yuusha on February 23, 2022. It included the song of the same name, which was used as the opening for the anime Ranking of Kings. [2] It peaked at number 6 on the Oricon charts. [9]
These songs, while not having Tokyo in their names, lyrics, or in content, have, in their (promotional) videos, scenes of Tokyo. "I Love The Things You Do To Me" by Balaam and the Angel "Love Missile F1-11" by Sigue Sigue Sputnik "Just Can't Get Enough" by The Black Eyed Peas "Motorcycle Emptiness" by The Manic Street Preachers
Taylor Swift had fans convinced they would hear music from her upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department, months before its release. During a performance in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, February ...
Trenet wrote the lyrics of "La Mer" on a train in 1943 while travelling along the French Mediterranean coast, returning from Paris to Narbonne. He supposedly wrote the song in ten minutes, on toilet paper supplied by SNCF ( National Corporation of French Railways ).