News about 'SHINOBI' theme song
 

http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainm.../05/10/05.html

It will be on sale in this year fall. Its the song for a movie , "忍―ＳＨＩＮＯＢＩ"

wow... knowing the release so soon but releasing so late.

Thanks for the info. :thumbsup

The movie opens on 17 September, so I guess the single will be released near that date.

wahhh omg omg .... to wait another 4 monthss :(
is shinobi a good movie ?

She may be releasing another single before this .. they wouldn't just say all of her up and coming releases as well as this one. This is probably just a scheduled release for the movie.

Thanks for the info.
:D

yeah that's what i thought when i read it.
this is true. yay. it might really be good news yet.

TeamAyu confirms this, but also goes to say that it isn't the same song as the movie tie-up. She is releasing a seperate song that we haven't heard yet. I would think she will start performing it at A-Nation when that tour starts, and it might be released around then too. But yeah, the movie themesong is a seperate release.

we'll see~
i hope she does release a single before this one =D

Thanks for the info!

=o thank god Im not 100% obsessed with ayumi or Id be dying from a massive heart attack from the wait.

thx for the info ^^

New stuff already, so cool!

I hope this movie is good. Hehe.

cool! ^^' thanx for the info!!!!!! Can't wait!

hopefully she'll release one before that. like around july.
but thanks for the info!

So there could be two upcoming singles one in summer and one in fall and hopefully and album in December!! isn't that how she releases anyway anually

I think she'll release something in the summer sometime, than a single in the fall for the movie. I can't be so sure, she's on tour as of now, eh?

The article is very positive... Through the auto-translator, I can see that this is definitely a ballad. And that I think she wrote the song purposely FOR the movie. It is also said that this movie is going to be like a Japan style 'Romeo & Juliet' and that the song is destined to be a love song that remains in future generations like Celine Dion's song for 'Titanic'. That's some huge praise. It goes on about saying that Ayu is enthusiastic about the song, and that it's going to be a big hit and possibly win the Gold Record Award at the end of the year. So, wow... Thanks for the news!

I hope she releases more remix albums! (maybe something like ayu trance 4) I'm itching for more remixes XD

shaking...with...HAPPYNESSS AAAHHHHH -goes crazy-

FINALLY AYU GET'S A GOOD TIE IN!!! No more Panasonic!! I really hope everything goes well with this single. Happy it's a ballad too!!! So EXCITED!! I bet it'll be worth the wait! Hopefully this'll bring her back to the wayyy top! and hopefully win Best Artist of the Year for Gold Disc Awards. *excited for new ballad* I hope CREA composes this one!

I pray and hope that she'll release another single before that one, like a summer release, who knows, maybe that fall released single will be her last single release before a new album, maybe she's gonna break the December album release pattern.

i'm looking forward to it, thanks for the info

Thanks for the news! :D

if she does this, i hope she at least takes a break next year, because it's gonna take a lot of work to achieve her annual schedule of 2 singles and a album... and from what i heard, AVEX isn't treating her as good as before...

wow!! it's cool!! looking forward to it
the new single would be a ballads

wow~~~!!! cant wait i hope she releases a single b4 that though!!

i am soooo gonna watch the movie shinobi also buy the dvd as well~ only if the movie is gonng be good :)

wooowww for Shinobi movie!!
Great!
Thanks for this info!

hmmm ... is that so? ... well then ... ayu must have a great deal of pressure on her to put out this song.

YAY! ^____^ I can't wait for it!

the offical site of the movie: http://www.shinobi-movie.com

Thanks for the info! I hope the movie will help her song.

this is awesome!! hope she does have a new single before this one comes out :D

I can't wait to hear it!

waw... so soon ^^ thx for the news

Shinobi sounds like a ninja movie to me. Oh well, it's okie to wait 4 months I guess. I actually prefer Ayu to release slowly, like 3-4 months a single.

Thanks all for the info! ^__^

thank you very much about this info!
But it is very late. I think so too.
nevertheless I'm looking very forward to this single.

I don't mind whether the single release late or not,
but just wishing her next single would recover with more remixes :cry

Thanks for the info! That's really good news. I can't wait to hear more!

Wow. That's a long time. I was expecting a summer single...

Hope there will be a single in the summer too... Can't wait! And thanks for the info ^^

Yeah about that Avex not treating her right? Ayu is already at the top of it all lol she really doesn't need much promotion anymore everyone knows exactly who she is. But her saying she was going to leave Avex with Max Matsuura, that may have had an effect you know he was the guy in charge of all her other singles the ones with tons of remixes and stuff. This ballad to be i doubt it would be produced by CREA probally by some other huge producer i hope it would be CREA,HAL and DAI that be hot!!!!

aww, i don't like these "classic" ballads
hope it'll be something like M or Free & easy

Thanks for the info - this looks interesting.

Translation of article
 

I read that article, and here's my translation.

Singer Hamasaki Ayumi (26) will be singing the theme song of the film "Shinobi" (dir: Shimoyama Ten). Managing the lyrics herself, she plans to have a magnificent ballad prepared to color the fated ninja-love painted by co-stars Nakama Yukie (25) and Odagiri Joe (29). As this is the first time Hamasaki has written a new theme song for a film, the song is drawing a lot of attention to be released this fall along with the film.

The songstress, whose single released last month "STEP you/is this LOVE?" continues to march up the charts, will be singing of star-crossed love for the big screen.

"Shinobi..." is a work which paints the tragic love of Ninja Iga (Nakama) and Ninja Kaga (Odagiri), who bear the fate of having to kill eachother despite falling in a destined love. The distributor, Matsutake, realized the lovecall, "We definitely wanted Miss Hamasaki, who expresses love in her own words, to sing the theme song."

Before now, Hamasaki has been behind the theme song for "Semi-double" (Fuji TV) as well as 5 other dramas; and although the album-track "Who..." was used as the theme song for the film "Tsuki" (2000), this is the first time she has written a new song just for a film's theme. Reading the work's scenario, she will write the lyrics herself.

She is currently selecting the composition, but according to those related, it is set to be a grand ballad. Matsutake expects that "because it's a work like that of a "modern Romeo & Juliet," a "Japanese Titanic," it will be a lovesong lasting through future generations like Celine Dion, who was responsible for the theme from Titanic." Hamasaki is also enthusiastic that she will, "do [her] best so that [she] can sing a theme that will last in everyone's heart, like the image of the film."

The single is set for sale this fall, along with the film's 17 September release. Like her previous fall-release hit ballads, "Dearest," "No way to say," etc., it seems, as she has gotten caught in the year-end award race, like it will be Hamasaki's greatest work.

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I'm excited!! I just hope by "grand ballad" they don't mean like "CAROLS". I hope it's a dramatic ballad like when BoA did "Uri" for Taegukgi. That song gives me chills!

Woah... thanks. I hope this ballad will be comparable to some gorgeous ballad like "Dearest" Seems Ayu is working hard on this one!

thx ^^

Ohhh hoo hoo wooahhh!! too excited :luv2
楽し過ぎるぅ～っ！ :luv2

very very exciting news!

And i of course didn't expect a CREA composition at all - the composition will, however, probably be done by somebody very close to the MOVIE, not to ayu professionally. So i feel this will be very grand, powerful, yet different from things that we would normally hear from her.

!i cant wait to hear it!><"

i hope its good..... it probobly will be!><

Oooh! I can't wait ^ ^

new single!
yesyes! i can't wait for it!
omg...i think i would watch the movie just because ayu sang the theme for it~LOL

interesting, she's trying something new~~ I hope it'll be a good song :)

This is very exciting news! From how determined Ayu appears to be, and those working with her, this *should* be a song for the ages. As for the best of her career, that will be up for her fans to determine.

good news,i'm looking forward to it

That's awesome.. thanks for translatin :yes
Is it possible to upload that BoA song "Uri"? i haven't heard it.. according to you, it's really good and i really wanna hear it.. thanks if you can uplaod it :D

Thank you for the translation evolusean.

I am very excited!!!!!

WOW!!
i'm waiting for this new single
hopefully it can sales well
it's her first time for becoming movie soundtrack
i'm really sure that it will be a great ballad song
2005 is AYU year again

omg! ballad song! YAY!! the song sounds promising and the movie also sounds great

Wow. The song and movie sound great, Japanese style Romeo & Juliet...*must see* :)

I think ballads are definetely Ayu's strong points, though I have yet to get STEP you out of my head. I think it'll be something dramatic like BoA's 'We', which I love. :D

x] how coicidental. Now i'm school, i'm reading romeo and Juliet. So it's quite cool! =D THanks for the infor again!

thanks for the info, i think it'll be quite awhile until her new single, actually i'm kinda expecting a summer-release...

or MAYBE

she'll release SOMETHING else, like hmmmmm.... let's see... a REMIX ALBUM? or maybe LOADS of DVDs? who knows? she IS full of surprises

sounds like a ballad? thats great, i miss her ballads, my story really didn't have any great power ballads like dearest or rainbow something.

this is certainly great news! i hope there will be one more single before september cos i cant wait that long

It's too bad that we aren't too sure about what has been said.
Thanks for the report

Thanks for your translation, it's great now that we can be sure what the news about.

great to hear that she'll contribute her singing for a movie
it's a great way to make her noticable for those who haven't know her yet

(how pissed of i was to know that FFX-2's theme was sung by kumi koda,though still like the song....)
there're lots of gamer out there
and it'll be a great promotion to contribute a song for a game
the game she was ever contributed to is just "thousand arms"...

so glad to hear about this shinobi soundtrack stuff....

evolusean: i LOVE 'uri'! i never liked BoA this much [neither taekugki] but that song is a masterpiece, the BEST song in 'MyName'!

i hope the next single is good...

I'm hoping (seemingly like a lot of people) for another song that's as good as M or Rainbow... Go ayu! Her ballads are always great =D

I think it will sell a lot ~ ! Considering it's a ballad .. and many people <3 ballads. Well, at least I do :yes

Songs to movies always sell well :evillaugh
So it's a good idea that the people that made the movie want Ayu to sing it :yes

I find that Ayu's ballads are the worst. Can't she do a downtempo song without making it some sort of epic cheese ballad? She always comes out with one in the fall.

sigh! zannen desune! I really want to hear a new Ayumi song!

We've heard what the movie people think about it ... but I wonder how ayu really feels being expected to create such a masterpeice. I mean ... she is still working on it ... so she must be somewhat stressed out.

Yey- thanks for the info ^v^

well, sometime, stress and pressure makes the best works

^Or not LOL When too much expectation is put into something sometimes it just ruins everything. Some great and very imaginative works can actually come from a casual idea.
I just want to point out that the fact that ayu is going to put a lot of effort into making it a great song is not a guarantee that the song will be necessarily something amazingly superior to her past works. There's always the chance that it might be a simple song, or just a usual ballad.

Must suck having to come up with good songs under a schedule. No wonder people aren't happy with her new releases as much as they used to be. :(

Exactly. :)

I don't necessarily have high expectations, but I do at least expect somthing different. Based on the theme of the movie, it might be something traditional-Japanese-meets-rock-ballad or something. Surely it won't be just a typical song, there will be some sort of flair to it that sets it apart.

thanks for the info ;)

Thanks for the info. This is exciting!

Yes. We should all not expect that much from it.. cause' we end up being all disappointed and bummed out afterwards.. :D lol [seriously, some people are like 'I thought it was.. :[..'] Yeah.. :D

Zeo

i cant read japanese
but thnks for the info^.^

thx for the news and translation. Wow, if it's something like Celine Dion's "My heart will go on", then I guess this would be her best single ever! Just hope that the track list wouldn't end up as Hikki's darekano single...

oohh! too excited!

Not sure about the traditional part, just let's wait and see

there must be another single in this summer~~~

Thanks for the info, I can't wait :D

great. next song is going to be a ballad.

Cool! Another song from a movie. :yes

Voyage sold very well despite the extremely weak Japanese market in the winter of 2002.

And I agree, I wish the movie was longer. Showing more of how Ayu ended up in the mental institution, and more of about her relation with Sonshin. I guess budget problems forced it to be short :eviltongu

*imagines a longer movie* that would have been cool !!!

Voyage wasn't cheesy imo. The instrumentals are really rich. It explains why so many people collaborated on the song.