To capture the breadth and depth of the musical career of Japanese composer and recording artist Ryuichi Sakamoto seems impossible, but somehow “Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus” almost accomplishes this ...

From pop music to film scores, electronica to experimental, Ryuichi Sakamoto was one of the most prolific, accomplished and influential artists of the last 50 years. Yet his death in March 2023 only ...

From groundbreaking synth-pop to blockbuster soundtracks, he wrote music history with decades worth of pieces. Now "Opus", the last concert by Japanese celebrated musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, recorded ...

There’s last will and testaments, and then there’s Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus, for which the musician and composer (for whom adjectives are sometimes adequate) enlisted his son, Neo Sora, to put on film ...

As he explains, it was no small task to chronicle what he knew could be his father’s last artistic gift to the world. But when speaking about the film, Sora maintains a studied objectivity that ...

Before I knew Ryuichi Sakamoto’s name, I knew how his music made me feel. As an eight-year-old watching Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor (too young), I had to flee to the movie theatre lobby, so ...

There are 20 selections, drawing from his music for films ranging from Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, through art-house classics The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, Little Buddha and The Revenant, as ...