Osaka (大阪, Ōsaka?) listen (help·info) is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe. Located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, Osaka is the third largest city by population after Tokyo (special wards) and Yokohama.
Keihanshin is the second largest area in Japan by population and one of the largest metropolitan areas highly ranked in the world, with nearly 18 million people, and by GDP the second largest area in Japan and the seventh largest area in the world.
Historically the commercial centre of Japan, Osaka functions as one of the command centers for the Japanese economy. The ratio between daytime and night time population is 141%, the highest in Japan, highlighting its status as an economic center. Its nighttime population is 2.6 million, the third in the country, but in daytime the population surges to 3.7 million, second only after Tokyo (combining the Special wards of Tokyo, which is not a single incorporated city, for statistical purposes. See the Tokyo article for more information on the definition and makeup of Tokyo.) Osaka used to be referred to as the "nation's kitchen" (天下の台所, tenka no daidokoro?) in feudal Edo period because it was the centre of trading for rice, creating the first modern futures exchange market in the world.
Eugenio Finardi (born July 16, 1952) is an Italian singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist.
Eugenio Finardi was born in Milan, Italy, on July 16, 1952, in a musical family: his father was an Italian music sound engineer and his mother an American opera singer; at age six Finardi made his first record, Palloncino Rosso Fuoco, a children song.
Finardi became part of a thriving music scene in Milan in the late 1960s. Rooted in the Blues, classic Rock'n'Roll and the hippy counter-culture, he became an active member of the left-wing youth movement of those years. His first band was called The Tiger, in 1969. Soon he started playing with Alberto Camerini, a singer and guitarist born in Brazil, who a few years later would be instrumental in introducing American and British New Wave to Italian Pop music. Together they even emulated the US film Easy Rider by travelling on motorbikes from Milan to Amsterdam. The scene Finardi became part of included among others bands like Area and Stormy Six, Claudio Rocchi and female singer-songwriter Donatella Bardi. Finardi made a living by day teaching English, in which he was fluent because of his American mother, and as a musician by night, as singer, guitarist and piano-player. After forming the band Il Pacco with Camerini, Finardi recorded a single in English in 1973, Spacey Stacey/Hard Rock Honey for Numero Uno, the first Italian independent record label started by singer-songwriter Lucio Battisti and his writing partner Mogol, who had a long string of Italian and international hits under their belts, and who had introduced in Italian Pop music different styles from the US and the UK, from the Rock music of Bob Dylan, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, to Blues and Soul. Finardi's single went largely unnoticed.
Plot
Kobe, the father of Miro, is a grouch. Miro is beloved of Osaka, a poor man, whose suit is rudely rejected by Kobe, who, in a drunken orgy, offers his daughter to the highest bidder among his friends. She is won by Okyto, a rich profligate, who takes her away with him to his summer palace, refusing to allow even her faithful servant, Suzi, to accompany her. Suzi tells Osaka of the marriage, and when he attempts to speak with her, he is rudely beaten off by Okyto's attendants. Osaka then goes' to Kobe and tells him that if harm comes to his daughter Miro, his life shall pay the forfeit. After reaching the palace with her husband, Okyto, Miro is treated shamefully. On one occasion, she is rudely pushed aside in favor of geisha girl. Miro flees into the garden and drops unconscious, where she is found by Suzi. Okyto presently seeks her and again handles her roughly. Osaka sees him, forces his way into the palace grounds, approaches him and a terrific struggle takes place between the two men. Osaka is victorious and leaves Okyto bleeding upon the ground. He then picks up Miro and carries her off, tries to revive her, and being unable to do so, be leaves her in the care of Suzi and goes to wreak his vengeance upon Kobe, whom he kills. While Osaka is away, Nikko, a peddler, whom he has befriended, comes op and by means of a powerful elixir, to which he holds the secret, restores Miro to consciousness. When Osaka returns, he is overjoyed and departs with Miro, Suzi and Nikko, to find a new home in the fertile valleys of Nippon.
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Forty miles and forty days
You were gone without a trace
I'm begging for you
I waited for you
For any day and any place
I am lost without your face
I'm headed for you
I'm waiting for you
Gonna wait
A summer berry day
You and me
We'll might just stand it...
I'm the way that keeps you coming
I'm the way that keeps you coming
Everytime when you are near
I am lost without a trace
I'm begging for you
I'm bringing you down
Forty miles and forty days
I am here with all that place
Holding you down
I'm begging you now
Gonna wait
A summer berry day
You and me
We'll might just stand it...
I am the way that keeps you coming
I am the way that keeps you coming
I am the way that keeps you coming