Sakura Nagashi
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| Single by Hikaru Utada | ||||||||||||||
| from the album Fantôme | ||||||||||||||
| Released | November 17, 2012 | |||||||||||||
| Format | Digital download, DVD single | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2012 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | J-pop, piano rock | |||||||||||||
| Length | 4:42 | |||||||||||||
| Label | EMI Music Japan | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Hikaru Utada, Paul Carter | |||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Hikaru Utada | |||||||||||||
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"Sakura Nagashi" (桜流し?, lit. "Flowing Cherry Blossoms/Cherry Blossoms Sinking") is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada. It was released digitally November 17, 2012, with a DVD single released 26 December 2012. The song is the theme to the third film of the Rebuild of Evangelion movie series, Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, and was later included on her sixth Japanese-language studio album Fantôme, released in 2016. The single also marked Utada's last release under the then EMI-controlled EMI Music Japan as the label was absorbed into Universal Music Japan as EMI Records Japan in April 2013.
Utada wrote "Sakura Nagashi" at the express interest of the staff for the Evangelion movie series. Although on hiatus at the time, Utada wrote and composed the song due to her appreciation of the movie series; she had also composed the themes for the previous two Evangelion films.
A website was set up for the song, which also includes the music video, which was uploaded to Utada's YouTube channel on 16 November 2012. The video remained on the channel for 3 days before being deleted. It was instead replaced by a shortened version of the video. The website states that using the Hashtag "#SakuraNagashi" enters the Twitter user into a prize draw to win one of 1000 CD jacket-sized stickers.
"Sakura Nagashi" is described as "sentimental and beautiful; it is a requiem for life full of literary elegance". The website also has the lyrics to the song, in both Japanese and an English translation by Utada herself.
"Sakura Nagashi" is a J-pop/piano rock song, composed of piano and strings, and in the latter part of the song drums, guitar and synths.
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