He's baaaa-aack! Someone reposted Masato Shimon's legendary rendition of the Star Wars theme with Japanese lyrics (partial translation here) on YouTube Japan! This never, ever, ever gets old, no matter how many times I listen to it.
Ignore the imagery (which is thrown together from random footage) and savor the sounds while they last. It's the complete song, including the "cantina theme" breakdown at around two minutes in, when all pretense of sanity goes out the window. Putting tokusatsu-style lyrics on this instrumental theme has to be the greatest US-Japan pop-cultural mash-up of all time (number two possibly being the addition of a giant robot to Spiderman.)
Reminds me of Bill Murray as lounge singer Nick Winters doing his corny rendition of the main theme, though I suspect Shimon is completely serious.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Bill-Murray-as-the-lounge-singer-Nick-Winters-from-SNL
Posted by: Jason | January 11, 2009 at 07:35 AM