''Rises Over Japan'' is a concert film by the Mark IV of

Deep Purple Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal music, heavy metal and modern hard rock music, but their musical style has changed over the course of its existence. Ori ...

, directed by Tony Klinger and released in 1985. This Japanese film includes 5 songs from a concert at Budokan Hall on December 15, 1975. The audio of the very same concert was released in an incomplete form as ''

Last Concert in Japan ''Last Concert in Japan'' is an album by Deep Purple released in March 1977 in Japan and in 1978 in Europe. Dedicated to Tommy Bolin, it records the last Japanese concert of the List of Deep Purple band members#.22Mark.22 numbers, Mark IV-lineup ...

'' in 1977 and the whole concert was issued in 2001 as '' This Time Around: Live in Tokyo''. The footage was shot professionally with multiple cameras on

16mm 16 mm film is a historically popular and economical gauge of film. 16 mm refers to the width of the film (about inch); other common film gauges include 8 and 35 mm. It is generally used for non-theatrical (e.g., industrial, educ ...

film, despite this, for many years only very poor quality bootleg copies from an obscure Japanese VHS release circulated among fans and collectors. Finally, after over 35 years the concert was restored from the original 31 minute print and released as a feature on the Deep Purple: ''

Phoenix Rising Phoenix rising originally describes the heraldic position of the image of a phoenix: its head upturned (to its right) with wings raised for flight. The term can also refer to: Film and television * ''Phoenix Rising'' (Hong Kong TV series), a 2 ...

Blu-ray Disc The Blu-ray Disc (BD), often known simply as Blu-ray, is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released on June 20, 2006 worldwide. It is designed to supersede the DVD format, and c ...

in 2011, complete with the original stereo sound mix and a new 5.1 surround sound mix.

Track listing

# " Burn" (Blackmore, Coverdale, Lord, Paice) # "Love Child" (Coverdale, Tommy Bolin) # " Smoke on the Water" ( Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Ian Paice) # " You Keep on Moving" (

David Coverdale David Coverdale (born 22 September 1951) is an English singer who is best known as the lead vocalist of Whitesnake, a hard rock band he founded in 1978. Before Whitesnake, Coverdale was the lead singer of Deep Purple from 1973 to 1976, after wh ...

Glenn Hughes Glenn Hughes or Glen Hughes may refer to: *Glenn Hughes (musician), born 1951 *Glenn Hughes (American singer) (1950–2001) *Glenn Hughes (cricketer), born 1959 *Glen Hughes Glen Hughes is an Australian former professional rugby league footbal ...

) # " Highway Star" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice)

Personnel

;Deep Purple * Tommy Bolin - Guitar, vocals *

- Lead vocals *

- Bass, vocals * Jon Lord - Keyboards, organ, backing vocals * Ian Paice - Drums, percussion

Production

*Tony Klinger: Director, editor. *Martin Birch: Film & record producer, engineer, recorder. *Clive Smith: Film editor.

External links

* {{Deep Purple 1985 video albums Live video albums 1985 live albums Deep Purple live albums Deep Purple video albums 1980s English-language films