By NORIKI ISHITOBI/ Senior Staff Writer
July 31, 2023 at 07:00 JST
Actress and singer Meiko Kaji's album “Hajiki Uta” has been re-released as a vinyl record in Europe exactly 50 years after its initial release.
“I’m so flattered that my album is enjoying a revival outside Japan a half century after its original release,” Kaji said.
Kaji is also popular outside Japan, with her song “Urami Bushi” featured in U.S. director Quentin Tarantino’s film “Kill Bill Volume 2.”
The latest re-release is part of a reissue program of her five albums originally released between 1972 and 1974.
The new version of “Hajiki Uta” was released in May from the French label WeWantSounds.
The album ranks somewhere between No. 100 and No. 199 on the French charts, and it is available in record stores in London and elsewhere.
It was originally released in 1973.
At that time, Kaji was busy with her film acting career, starring in Nikkatsu Corp.’s “Stray Cat Rock” series, which started in 1970, Toei Co.’s “Female Prisoner Scorpion” series, which began in 1972, and Toho Co.’s “Lady Snowblood” series, which started in 1973.
The album contains 12 songs that include “Urami Bushi,” which is also the theme song of the film “Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion,” in which Kaji plays the titular character, Nami Matsushima.
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Meiko Kaji (Provided by herself)
