The List of movie songs appear place name in its lyrics

When a place name appears in the lyrics of songs, it makes me think of that place and it gives me a sense of romance. 

As my hobby, I list the songs used in movies which have lyrics that refer to certain places.

I'll update this list as soon as I find such songs.

 

List of song titles currently listed in this article

(Last updated: 05/01/2024)

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I went to MOTHER2 exhibition! (In Japan)

Hi!

I am Japanese live in Japan.

I love a certain RPG. "MOTHER2" (EarthBound).

👇My article written about how I love MOTHER2 (Japanese text)

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MOTHER2's theme is not everyday life. Boy and girl fight to save the earth.

But, when we play MOTHER2, we feel everyday life and our heart become warm.

MOTHER2 is such wonder heartful exciting game!

Now, in Japan, an exhibition, "MOTHER2のひみつ。展　(SECRETS OF MOTHER2)" where you can see the development materials of MOTHER2 is being held in Shibuya, Tokyo.

👇Website of "MOTHER2のひみつ。展"（External link）（Japanese Website）

www.1101.com

In Kanda Nishikicho, Umeda, Sapporo, and Nagoya, an exhibition called "MOTHER2のひみつ。サテライト展（The Secret of MOTHER2 Satellite Exhibition）" is being held. Satellite Exhibition mainly sells goods, but we can also see a little reproduction materials!

I live in Osaka. Osaka is far from Tokyo. So I can't went to main exhibition at Shibuya, Tokyo.

But I went to Sattellite Exhibition at Umeda, Osaka!!!

I watched old movie at the movie theater③ "Cinderella" Disney100 Film Festival in Japan

In 2023, the year of Disney's 100th anniversary, also in Japan, we could experience various celebrate Disney projects.

For example, Disney's digital stamp rally, the 100th anniversary movie "Wish", and a short film called "Once Upon a Studio" in which appear various characters from previous Disney movies.

One of such projects was "Disney 100 Film Festival".

This is an event where classic Disney animations that are loved by everyone were released in movie theaters on weekend in October.

I heard that the lineup of movies differs depending on the country.

In Japan, the lineup was like this.

1.Frozen (played 1st October)
2.Big Hero 6 (played 8th October)
3.Cinderella (played 14th October)
4.Moana (played 15th October)
5.The Little Mermaid (played 21st October)
6.Zootopia (played 22nd October)
7.Tangled (played 28th October)
8.Fantasia (played 29th October)

I went to watch two movies. "Cinderella" and "Fantasia".

In this article, I would like to write about my experience watching "Cinderella (Japanese dubbed version)".

I watched old movie at the movie theater ② "The Towering Inferno"

In Japan, last summer, "The Towering Inferno" was screened in movie theaters in Japan at 午前十時の映画祭（Gozen-Juji-No-Eigasai）.

午前十時の映画祭 is a project in which a various classic movies are screened in one year at the movie theaters around Japan, once a day during one or two weeks.

↓The official website of "午前十時の映画祭" (external link)

asa10.eiga.com

"The Towering Inferno" is a panic movie released in 1974 starring Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. This movie is about a skyscraper on fire.

I hadn't watched panic movies much before, but I heard that Fred Astaire is appearing in this movie. I'm classic musical movie's freak.

I watched old movie at the movie theater① "Lawrence of Arabia"

午前十時の映画祭 is a project in which a various classic movies are screened in one year at the movie theaters around Japan, once a day during one or two weeks.

👇The official website of "午前十時の映画祭" (external link)

asa10.eiga.com

↓The schedule of films to be screened this year in "午前十時の映画祭" (external link)

asa10.eiga.com

In 午前十時の映画祭, "Lawrence of Arabia"(227minutes version) was screened in June 2023.

This movie is a 227-minute big piece released in 1962!!

The screening at 午前十時の映画祭 was in 4K.

I had heard the famous theme song for this movie composed by Maurice Jarre.

↓The theme song (Overture)is here! (The video is a channel automatically generated by YouTube called a "topic channel". I recognize it is not an illegal upload.)

www.youtube.com

But I have not watched this movie because I didn't have the confidence to stay focused in front of the TV for 227 minutes, 3 hours and 47 minutes.

I thought that I would only be able to watch it in a movie theater, which is a place where we can watch a movie from beginning to end without touching our smartphone.

As soon as I heard that this movie would be shown at the movie theater in 午前十時の映画祭, I decided to go watch it.

Songs I knew from video games②「Let's Go Sunning」 (Marvel's Spider-Man)

We can move Spider-Man and fly around Manhattan in first of the Spider-Man's game series of Insomniac games,  "Marvel's Spider-Man".

In this game, there is a boom box at the doc's labo, and we can select music from several types of music to push button.

Only one of the songs has lyrics. English lyric is sung with woman's voice. I thought this song is old-fashioned and cool. And I started to like it.

I wondered what is this song's title.

I researched and I found that this song is "Let's Go Sunning", composed by Jack Shaindlin.

Songs I knew from video games① 「Hard Times Come Again No More (CivilizationⅥ）

I often play "Sid Meier's Civilization VI" (In this article, for short "Civ6").

I bought Nintendo Switch version and Steam Version and I play with both.

In this game, we select a leader who leads a certain civilization, and we aim at winning to be a top of the world. We can choose one way from the 5 ways, "domination, science, culture, religion, diplomacy" (I don't know the expression of civ6's 5 way to win in English. These are literal translation of Japanese expression. Sorry.)  

When we choose "America" from many civilizations, we listen to a certain melody most of the times.

The melody is arranged according to era in the games. (In the game, the melody is rusticity in ancient era, the melody is solemn in nuclear power era)