Dragon's Domain Records presents the original motion picture soundtrack to THE HANDMAID'S TALE, featuring music composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto (MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE, THE LAST EMPEROR, THE REVENANT), for the 1990 science fiction thriller directed by Volker Schlondorff (THE TIN DRUM, DEATH OF A SALESMAN), written by Harold Pinter, based on the novel by Margaret Atwood and starring Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant, Blanche Baker and Robert Duvall.
Released in 1990, THE HANDMAID'S TALE is set in the twilight of the Twentieth Century and American society as we have known it has ceased to exist. In a country now known as the Republic of Gilead, Right-wing fundamentalists have overthrown the government and replaced it with a numbingly repressive society ruled by the most rigid Puritan ethics. Cumulative effects of pollution, toxic waste and genetic experimentation have rendered most women infertile. Those still capable of bearing children are deemed 'Handmaids' and are assigned to 'Commanders', the men of the ruling elite.
While attempting to escape, Kate (Richardson) and her family are stopped at the Canadian border. Her husband is shot, her daughter is taken away and she is captured, tested for fertility, sent to a training center for Handmaids. Upon completion, she is assigned to a commander named Fred (Duvall) and his barren wife Serena Joy (Dunaway). Kate is renamed Offred, given a small room in the house and is forbidden to speak to anyone in the household unless spoken to first.
Kate develops an unexpectedly tender relationship with the Commander, who secretly introduces her to objects and activities from the past, now forbidden by Gilead law. Serena Joy, fearing that the commander himself may be infertile, arranges a meeting between Kate and the Commander's chauffeur, Nick (Quinn). Their lovemaking rekindles all of Kate's passion for life and with her feelings for Nick growing stronger, her desire for freedom from the Gilead regime grows even more desperate...
Ryuichi Sakamoto has lived many musical lives. As a keyboardist and songwriter in Haruomi Hosono's Yellow Magic Orchestra, he helped set the stage for synthpop. His solo experiments in fusing global genres and close studies of classical impressionism led to him scoring over 30 films, including MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE, THE LAST EMPEROR, THE SHELTERING SKY, RISING SUN, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, SNAKE EYES, FEMME FATALE and THE REVENANT.
Originally released in the early days of the compact disc format by GNP Records, with the music presented in lengthy suites, Dragon's Domain Records is excited to bring THE HANDMAID'S TALE back to the marketplace, with the music remastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland.
THE HANDMAID'S TALE is a limited edition release. 2026/1/26の週発売
カナダの女流作家、マーガレット・アットウッドの同名小説を原作にしたショッキングなＳＦ作品。ヴォルカー・シュレンドルフ監督（『ブリキの太鼓』『 『セールスマンの死』）が監督を務め、ハロルド・ピンターが脚本を担当。出演はナターシャ・リチャードソン、フェイ・ダナウェイ、エイダン・クイン、エリザベス・マクガヴァン、ヴィクトリア・テナント、ブランシュ・ベイカー、ロバート・デュヴァルが出演。
トラックリスト1990年公開の『侍女の物語』は、20世紀の黄昏期を舞台に、我々が知るアメリカ社会は消滅した世界を描く。現在はギレアデ共和国と呼ばれるこの国では、右派原理主義者たちが政府を打倒し、最も厳格なピューリタン的倫理観によって支配される、麻痺させるほど抑圧的な社会を築き上げた。汚染、有害廃棄物、遺伝子実験の累積的影響により、ほとんどの女性は不妊となった。依然として子を産む能力を持つ女性は「侍女」とされ、支配階級の男性である「司令官」に割り当てられる。
逃亡を試みたケイト（リチャードソン）と家族はカナダ国境で阻止される。夫は射殺され、娘は連れ去られ、彼女は捕らえられて妊娠能力検査を受け、侍女養成センターへ送られる。訓練を終えると、フレッド（デュヴァル）という司令官とその不妊の妻セレナ・ジョイ（デュナウェイ）のもとへ配属される。ケイトは「オフレッド」と改名され、屋敷の一室を与えられ、先に話しかけられない限り家中の誰とも話すことを禁じられる。
ケイトは司令官と予想外の優しい関係を築く。司令官は密かに、ギレアードの法律で禁じられた過去の物や行いを彼女に紹介する。セレーナ・ジョイは司令官自身が不妊かもしれないと恐れ、ケイトと司令官の運転手ニック（クイン）との面会を手配する。二人の交わりはケイトの生きる情熱を再燃させ、ニックへの想いが強まるにつれ、ギレアド体制からの自由への渇望はますます切実なものとなっていく…
坂本龍一は数多くの音楽人生を歩んできた。細野晴臣率いるイエロー・マジック・オーケストラのキーボード奏者兼作曲家として、シンセポップの礎を築く一翼を担った。世界各国のジャンルを融合させたソロ実験や、クラシック印象派への深い研究を経て、彼は30本以上の映画音楽を手がけた。『戦場のメリークリスマス』『ラストエンペラー』『シェルタリング・スカイ』『王立宇宙軍 オネアミスの翼』『嵐が丘』『スネーク・アイズ』『ハイヒール』『レヴェナント：蘇えりし者』などが代表作。
当初はGNPレコードよりCDフォーマット初期にリリースされ、長大な組曲形式で音楽が収録された本作を、Dragon's Domain Recordsは、デジタル・アウトランドにてジェームズ・ネルソンによるリマスターを施した『侍女の物語』を市場に再リリースする。
限定盤。 --- レーベルより。（機械翻訳・一部修正）
Dragon's Domain Records presents the original motion picture soundtrack to THE HANDMAID'S TALE, featuring music composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto (MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE, THE LAST EMPEROR, THE REVENANT), for the 1990 science fiction thriller directed by Volker Schlondorff (THE TIN DRUM, DEATH OF A SALESMAN), written by Harold Pinter, based on the novel by Margaret Atwood and starring Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant, Blanche Baker and Robert Duvall.
Released in 1990, THE HANDMAID'S TALE is set in the twilight of the Twentieth Century and American society as we have known it has ceased to exist. In a country now known as the Republic of Gilead, Right-wing fundamentalists have overthrown the government and replaced it with a numbingly repressive society ruled by the most rigid Puritan ethics. Cumulative effects of pollution, toxic waste and genetic experimentation have rendered most women infertile. Those still capable of bearing children are deemed 'Handmaids' and are assigned to 'Commanders', the men of the ruling elite.
While attempting to escape, Kate (Richardson) and her family are stopped at the Canadian border. Her husband is shot, her daughter is taken away and she is captured, tested for fertility, sent to a training center for Handmaids. Upon completion, she is assigned to a commander named Fred (Duvall) and his barren wife Serena Joy (Dunaway). Kate is renamed Offred, given a small room in the house and is forbidden to speak to anyone in the household unless spoken to first.
Kate develops an unexpectedly tender relationship with the Commander, who secretly introduces her to objects and activities from the past, now forbidden by Gilead law. Serena Joy, fearing that the commander himself may be infertile, arranges a meeting between Kate and the Commander's chauffeur, Nick (Quinn). Their lovemaking rekindles all of Kate's passion for life and with her feelings for Nick growing stronger, her desire for freedom from the Gilead regime grows even more desperate...
Ryuichi Sakamoto has lived many musical lives. As a keyboardist and songwriter in Haruomi Hosono's Yellow Magic Orchestra, he helped set the stage for synthpop. His solo experiments in fusing global genres and close studies of classical impressionism led to him scoring over 30 films, including MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE, THE LAST EMPEROR, THE SHELTERING SKY, RISING SUN, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, SNAKE EYES, FEMME FATALE and THE REVENANT.
Originally released in the early days of the compact disc format by GNP Records, with the music presented in lengthy suites, Dragon's Domain Records is excited to bring THE HANDMAID'S TALE back to the marketplace, with the music remastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland.
THE HANDMAID'S TALE is a limited edition release.
2026/1/26の週発売
01. Overture / Snow (2:42)
02. Prison Camp (2:59)
03. On The Bus / Old Hundredth* / Nocturno (2:32)
04. Moira’s Hand / Red Veil (2:09)
05. Kate / Rape & Rage (2:48)
06. The Kiss (1:57)
07. Pollution In City / Moira Escapes (3:10)
08. Rape / Shall We Gather By The River** (1:52)
09. Love In Nick’s Room (3:11)
10. Amazing Grace*** (0:57)
11. My Daughter Is Alive (2:05)
12. Car Bomb / Travesty (2:17)
13. Kate & Moira / Hanging (2:50)
14. Particicution / Finding The Knife (3:33)
15. Waiting For Murder / Killing Commander (1:48)
16. Mayday (1:42)
17. Old Hundredth* (Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow) (0:56)
Total Time: 39:37
* Composed by Louis Bourgeois
** Composed by Robert Lowry
*** Composed by John Newton, Performed by Laura Baxter