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“Forbidden Colours” is a song composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto with lyrics by David Sylvian. The song is the vocal version of the theme from the Nagisa Oshima film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (in certain territories retitled Furyo) and was first released on the soundtrack album. “Forbidden Colours”, also issued as a duet single on Virgin Records in 1983, was the second collaborative single release by Sylvian and Sakamoto, following 1982’s “Bamboo Houses”.
The title of the song is taken from Japanese writer Yukio Mishima’s 1953 novel Forbidden Colors; although not directly related to the film, both works include exploration of homosexual themes. In 1984 the track was re-recorded and released as the B-side to “Red Guitar”, the lead single to Sylvian’s first solo... Read on...