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  names:
    en: Akira Senju
    ja: 千住明
barcode: '4988006219502'
catalog: TOCT-26733
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- Live Action
category: Animation
classification: Original Soundtrack, Original Work
composers:
- link: artist/1613
  names:
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    ja: 千住明
- names:
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  name: ''
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    track_length: '3:09'
  - names:
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    track_length: '2:51'
  - names:
      Japanese: 幸せ色の紳士服店
    track_length: '2:21'
  - names:
      Japanese: SNOW DIAMOND
    track_length: '3:05'
  - names:
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    track_length: '4:20'
  - names:
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    track_length: '4:24'
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    track_length: '3:40'
  - names:
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    track_length: '2:42'
  - names:
      Japanese: 赤い庭
    track_length: '2:55'
  - names:
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  - names:
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    track_length: '2:53'
  - names:
      Japanese: 風林火山＜メインテーマ＞
    track_length: '2:48'
  - names:
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    track_length: '1:25'
  - names:
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    track_length: '2:05'
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    track_length: '2:40'
  - names:
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    track_length: '1:30'
  - names:
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    track_length: '2:41'
  - names:
      Japanese: 風林火山 ～回帰～
    track_length: '3:29'
  - names:
      Japanese: 源氏物語 序曲と終曲
    track_length: '5:55'
  - names:
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    track_length: '7:20'
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  link: org/514
  names:
    en: EMI Music Japan Inc.
    ja: EMIミュージック・ジャパン
    ja-latn: EMI Music Japan Inc.
  role: distributor
link: album/158314
lyricists: []
media_format: CD
meta:
  added_date: 2026-03-18T18:10
  edited_date: 2026-03-18T23:19
  fetched_date: 2026-06-07T07:11
  freedb: 0
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 100
name: Best Wishes III PRAYER
names:
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  ja: Best Wishes III PRAYER
  ja-latn: Best Wishes III PRAYER
notes: 'Composed, Arranged & Produced by Akira Senju  Except M-07 Wriiten by Thomas
  Haynes Bayly

  Conductor: Chosei Komatsu <M-01,20>, Akira Senju <M-04,10,14~17>, Seikyo Kim <M-07>,
  Ken Takaseki <M-12>, Naoto Otomo <M-19>

  Performed by New Japan Philharmonic <M-01,20>, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra <M-07>,
  NHK Symphony Orchestra <M-12>, City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra <M-19>

  Violin: Mariko Senju <M-04,07>

  Shakuhachi: Ozan Shibata <M-10>

  Piano: Akira Senju <M-13,18>

  Produced & Compiled by Akira Senju

  [EMI Music Japan]

  Executive Producer: Hitoshi Namekata

  A&R Producer: Takashi Hiraoka

  Promotion Chief: Yuka Noguchi

  Promotion Staff: Yuko Hirose, Itsuko Fukasawa, Susumu Nihei, Chiaki Muramatsu

  Mastered by Hiroyuki Hosaka at HITOKUCHIZAKA Studio on Feb. 23, 2009

  [Akira Senju Office]

  Secretary to Akira Senju: Coco Niinuma

  Yoshiko Miyazaki, Yoshiko Senju, Tomoko Komiyama

  Design: Shinichi Suzuki (bar)

  Cover Photography: Rowland Kirishima

  Photo at Matera: Yosuke Hotta (nexus)

  Thanks to: Ikutaro Kakehashi (Roland), Kagenobu Kuwahata (Nichion), Daigo Mizoguchi
  (Nichion), Daisuke Mizuta (Nichion), Ari Komai (Japan Broadcast Publishing), Yoshitaka
  Kimura (nexus), Takeshi Muramatsu (Octavia Records), Keiji Ono (Octavia Records),
  Kenjiro Kakizawa, Mitsuo Arai, Mikiko Nose Kurata

  Licensed by NHK ENTERPRISES, INC., NHK SERVICE CENTER, INC., JAPAN BROADCAST PUBLISHING
  Co.,LTD., SHOCHIKU MUSIC PUBLISHING CO.,LTD., NICHION, INC., Victor Entertainment,
  Inc., PONY CANYON INC., UNIVERSAL SIGMA, A UNIVERSAL MUSIC COMPANY, WOWOW MUSIC
  INN, INC.'
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  names:
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    ja: feel
    ja-latn: feel
  role: label
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  names:
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    ja: EMIミュージック・ジャパン
    ja-latn: EMI Music Japan Inc.
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  names:
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    ja: 新日本フィルハーモニー交響楽団
- link: artist/119
  names:
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    ja: 東京フィルハーモニー交響楽団
- link: artist/118
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    ja: NHK交響楽団
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platforms:
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- Series
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    ja: 雪の女王
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- names:
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- names:
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publish_format: Commercial
publisher: *id002
related: []
release_date: '2009-03-25'
release_events: []
release_price:
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  price: 3000.0
reprints: []
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votes: 0
websites:
  Official:
  - link: https://akirasenju.com/release/prayer.html
    name: Akira Senju Official Website
  - link: https://www.universal-music.co.jp/senju-akira/products/toct-26733/
    name: Universal Music Japan
  Reference:
  - link: https://artist.cdjournal.com/d/-/4109010946
    name: CDJournal
  - link: https://www.discogs.com/release/15294868
    name: Discogs
