was the tenth single by the Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese rock band The Blue Hearts

The Blue Hearts

was a popular Japanese punk rock band that performed from the mid-1980s to the early-1990s. In 2003, they were ranked by HMV Japan as number 19 on their list of 100 most important Japanese pop acts...

 and reached #13 on the Oricon

Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

 charts in 1991.

Details

"Kubitsuri-dai Kara" was released as part of The Blue Hearts' fourth album, Bust Waste Hip

Bust Waste Hip

was the fourth album released by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts. The album was a big success and was the first album by the band to reach #1 on the Oricon charts....

, which had been released during the previous year on September 10, 1990, though the arrangement of the song is slightly different.

"Cinderella (From the Ashes)" (シンデレラ（灰の中から） Shinderera (Hai no Naka Kara)) was written by Junnosuke Kawaguchi

Junnosuke Kawaguchi

is a Japanese bassist who played for bands such as The Blue Hearts. He is now a music producer in Tokyo. He was born Hiroyuki Kawaguchi in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo.-Personal History:...

, the band's bassist. Though the band's vocalist, Hiroto Kōmoto

Hiroto Komoto

is a Japanese rock singer who has fronted bands such as The Blue Hearts, The High-Lows and The Cro-Magnons. The official kanji for his name are 甲本 浩人, but katakana is used when writing his name in official publications.-Personal History:...

, sings most of the lyrics, Kawaguchi sings during the slow tempo. This song was featured in Noriyuki Higashiyama

Noriyuki Higashiyama

is a singer, actor, and a member of the Japanese pop idol group Shonentai. On October 24, 2010 he got married to actress Yoshino Kimura.-References:...

's 1991 film, Maji! (本気！ Really!).