Yup. And Ryuichi Sakamoto. The movie called 'Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence', directed by Nagisa Oshima. Brilliant movie. The soundtrack was done by, surprise surprise, indeed Ryuichi Sakamoto. Brilliant soundtrack. It's an instrumental track though; there's two vocal tracks on the album, one that's not so interesting for this thread, the other one is though. It's basically 'Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence', but with vocals by David Sylvian, and it's called 'Forbidden colours'. Brilliant song. Hear it.

On a sidenote, Kitano's brilliant in this movie.

I made a list on my LJ of jpop xmas songs, albums, and singles... there are alot more besides these but it's a good starting point.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/del...ero/10746.html

That song "shiroi koibitotachi" that Ayu performed with Chemistry on HEYx3...I forget the original artist. And Speed's "White Love" and maybe a couple other songs.

I just found one. SCISSOR - Jingle Bells.
Its on 1:28 though.. I like it ^^ You can DL it here: http://www.ooh-la-la.nu/momo/

Speaking of Itsuka no Merry Christmas, i have a live version where Namie Amuro and Gackt did a duet of it.

Sven - Isn't Kitano brilliant in all his movies? :P