Hotei + KREVA + Kameda = THE THREE
By Shay • May 9th, 2008 • Category: newsTomoyasu Hotei? KREVA? The bassist from Tokyo Jihen? Kurosawa remake? I don’t know where to begin.
THE THREE is celebrity guitarist/actor Tomoyasu Hotei (布袋寅泰), rapper KREVA, and producer and Tokyo Jihen (東京事変) bassist Seiji Kameda (亀田誠治). One of these guys making a theme song is enough to turn heads but the three together? WOW.
The THREE teamed up to perform the theme song for the film 隠し砦の三悪人: THE LAST PRINCESS (Kakushi Toride no San Akunin: THE LAST PRINCESS, The Three Villains of the Hidden Fortress), a remake of the 1958 Akira Kurosawa movie The Hidden Fortress. The song, titled “裏切り御免” (Uragiri Gomen, Pardon the betrayal?) came out on May 7th and the film is in theaters May 10th.
Kakushi Toride no San Akunin: THE LAST PRINCESS is directed by Shinji Higuchi and stars Jun Matsumoto, Masami Nagasawa, Hiroshi Abe, and Daisuke Miyagawa.
The original The Hidden Fortress was of course directed by Akira Kurosawa and starred none other than Toshiro Mifune.
The name of The THREE refers to the the three villians of the hidden fortress.
The “裏切り御免” single features four variations of the song. A “spinoff HOTEI VERSION”, “KREVA BEAT MIX”, and instrumental accompany the regular version. The single debuted inside the top 10 of the Oricon charts.
Watch the dark and sexy PV for “裏切り御免” by The THREE:
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This video was definatly made for men ha ha ha. catchy song too
You know it ;) and anything by Hotei makes me get out my air guitar and play!! :P The end where the “winner” is declared is hilirious.