Sakura Sakura - in Popular Culture

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  • Cat Stevens used the melody of "Sakura Sakura" at the intro in the live version of his "Hard Headed Woman" song, during his 1976 Earth Tour that was later released on his album and DVD entitled Majikat.
  • Bon Jovi sampled "Sakura Sakura" at the opening of their song "Tokyo Road," featured on their 1985 7800° Fahrenheit album.
  • Sakura Sakura is used as Tokugawa's diplomacy theme in the 2005 game, Civilization IV.
  • Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones performed a version of "Sakura" in his organ solo at the Nagoya, Japan October 5, 1972 show.
  • In The Legend of The Five Rings, Muramasa Ando played this song only days before he was infected and couldn't pass the Kaiu Wall.
  • A techno dance remix of "Sakura Sakura", titled simply 桜 ("Sakura"), was created for the Konami game Beatmania IIDX and later appeared in the DDR series from Dance Dance Revolution Extreme onwards. It was attributed to RevenG, a pseudonym used by Konami composer Naoki Maeda for songs with an ethnic Asian feel.
  • The rock band Thrice used an altered version of the melody of Sakura Sakura in their song 'Music Box' which appeared in their fourth album Vheissu, released in 2005.
  • The song is in the Tamagotchi Music Star as an Asian-genre song.
  • An extract from the song was also used as part of Piston Honda's fight introduction in the NES game Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!.
  • In 2012, the second verse was sung by the android 'Kara' in a trailer made by Quantic Dream to demonstrate their motion capture technology.
  • A part of the melody can be heard on the campaign map of the Total War: Shogun 2 strategy video game.

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