kazuki tomokawa - songs from the movie "izo"

as there is no official release of the soundtrack to takashi miike's 2004 movie "izo", these songs are ripped from the dvd.

recently, kazuki tomokawa has become quite popular in the blog world; i suppose largely due to his appearance in the aforementioned film introducing him to non-japanese viewers and listeners.

this is a clip of "izo" with tomokawa performing one of the songs:

guenther kaufmann - so much tenderness

this is a most beautiful song by german actor guenther kaufmann from the 1970 rainer werner fassbinder movie "der amerikanische soldat" (the american soldier).

the song is written by fassbinder himself, the music by his frequent callaborator peer raben. in the movie, a very noir gangster story, the song is featured at the very end.