"Ai No Corrida" is a song written by Chaz Jankel and Kenny Young

Kenny Young

Kenny Young is an American songwriter who has been an active writer, artist, and producer from 1963 to the present. His most famous song was "Under the Boardwalk," co-written with Arthur Resnick and recorded by The Drifters in 1964 and by The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, and many other artists;...

, first recorded in 1980 and featuring on Chaz Jankel's self-titled debut album for A&M Records

A&M Records

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Interpretation

The title of the song is taken from the Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

 name Ai no Korīda of the 1976 Franco-Japanese film In the Realm of the Senses

In the Realm of the Senses

is a 1976 Franco-Japanese romantic drama film directed by Nagisa Oshima. It is a fictionalised and sexually explicit treatment of an incident from 1930s Japan, that of Sada Abe...

. It means "Bullfight of Love".

Cover versions

• It was covered by Quincy Jones
  Quincy Jones
  Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...
  
   in the following year on the album The Dude
  The Dude (Quincy Jones album)
  The Dude is a 1981 album by American music impresario, conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter Quincy Jones. The album featured the debut of vocalist James Ingram on the singles "Just Once" and "One Hundred Ways," which reached no. 17 and 14, respectively, on the...
  
  with vocals by Dune. The Jones version peaked at #10 on the soul chart and at #28 on the Hot 100. In the UK it peaked at #14.

• British dance act Uniting Nations
  Uniting Nations
  Uniting Nations are a British dance act who formed in 2004. The act achieved chart success across Europe. It was composed of Paul Keenan and Daz Sampson with Jinian Wilde on vocals for "Out of Touch", "You and Me" & 11 of the 12 tracks on the One World album . Craig Powell was the frontman of the...
  
    covered the song in 2005 for their album One World. The Uniting Nations cover was used by Danny Choo in his Shibuya
  Shibuya
  is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. It is also a surname of Japanese people, including:-People:*Shibuya Konnōmaru, a 12th century warrior*Kotono Shibuya , a female actor*Momoko Shibuya , a female actor...
  
  -based Tokyo Dance Trooper video.

• Quincy Jones also recorded a Spanish-language
  Spanish language
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   version for the 2006 charity album Rhythms del mundo
  Rhythms del Mundo
  Rhythms del Mundo is a nonprofit collaborative album, which fuses an all-star cast of Cuban musicians including Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo of the Buena Vista Social Club with tracks from US, UK and Irish artists such as Dido, Arctic Monkeys, U2, Coldplay, Sting, Jack Johnson, Maroon 5,...
  
  , with vocals by Vania Borges.

Awards

In 1982

Grammy Awards of 1982

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, Jerry Hey

Jerry Hey

Jerry Hey is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Thriller and the distinctive flugelhorn solo on Dan Fogelberg's hit Longer....

 and Quincy Jones received the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist has been awarded since 1963. The award is presented to the arranger of the music.There have been several minor changes to the name of the award:...

for their recording of this song.