The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Jazz legend Johnny Mandel scored a big soundtrack hit with The Sandpiper (and its theme song, "The Shadow of Your Smile"), and eventually he returned to the seaside again in '76 for this much darker story, adapted from the controversial Yukio Mishima novel and featuring notorious love scenes with Sarah Miles and Kris Kristofferson (who also helped out with music duties). The music has a smooth and dreamy atmosphere in keeping with the story and period, taken here from the Japanese vinyl pressing.