Fuun Lion-Maru (風雲ライオン丸, Fūun Raionmaru, lit. Storm Cloud Lion Maru), known as Lion-Man outside Japan, was a tokusatsu television series that aired on the Fuji Television Network in Japan in 1973. Produced by P Productions — the studio behind its previous tokusatsu series including Magma Taishi, Spectreman and Kaiketsu Lion-Maru, it was the second series in the Lion-Maru trilogy, and featured a third Maru-like character named Black Jaguar. It also reunites only two actors: Tetsuya Ushio as Shishimaru (Lion Maru) and Yoshitaka Fukushima as Jonosuke (Tiger Joe), since Akiko Kujo and Norihiko Umechi were not featured in the sequel series. This Lion-Maru is deemed "the Rolling Tempest Ninja Warrior."

The series has its context in Feudal Japan where, for any warrior, more important than life itself was to maintain his honor. It tells the story of Dan Shishimaru, a 22-year-old samurai who, after having his brother Dan Kage Noshin killed by Nezuma, a human monster allied with the evil group Mantle, goes into battle with a desire for revenge and justice.

I don't plan to do any more music from this franchise since I have other projects to work on, but this is the opening song from this show. My version is for quite a bit of instruments:

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Flute
Sax section (soprano, alto, 2 tenors, baritone)
Horn in F (French horn)
B-flat trumpet
Trombone
Glockenspiel
Vibraphone
Xylophone
Piano
String section (violin, viola, cello [violincello], contrabass [double bass])
Acoustic guitar
Acoustic bass

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This arrangement © me and me alone
Original music composed by Shinobu Nakamura (music), Hiroshi Tsutsui (lyrics), and sung by George Hama & Blue Angels
Fuun Lion-Maru © P Productions and everybody else who owns the rights, and aired originally on the Fuji Television Network.

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Fuun Lion-Maru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBC_IDtFt2Q (opening song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6EFkFhI9IE&t=0s (full soundtrack; the opening song is the first number on the soundtrack, and that is what I tried to do here)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkhFyxXfCF0&t=0s (full first episode)