Late Oscar-winning Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto was celebrated at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday with the Out Of Competition premiere of concert film Opus. The moving black-and-white work ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto's final album, Opus,, serves as the soundtrack for the documentary of the same name. In his final weeks, Sakamoto, an Oscar-winning composer, was filmed at the piano by his son, Neo ...

The complete list of collaborators attached to pianist/composer/modern day Renaissance man Ryuichi Sakamoto could easily fill the space reserved for a full-length review. The short list includes Brian ...

It’s hard to overstate the significance of the Ryuichi Sakamoto singularity. His half-century career spanned from Tokyo to New York City, both stylistically and physically, and his influence was ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto died in March 2023, but many of us had been steeling ourselves for the news since the previous December, when he performed what he himself suspected might be his final concert. After ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto is hunched over a grand piano, wearing a black suit and his customary tortoiseshell eyeglasses. The room around him is drenched in darkness, with no other textures visible but the ...

Director Neo Sora’s documentary captures a valedictory solo performance by the celebrated musician and film composer, his father, six months before his death from cancer. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy ...

On the eve of his 2023 death, composer and performer Ryuichi Sakamoto performed 20 selections from his vast body of work. Working from a set list personally selected by Sakamoto from his discography, ...

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 ...

Venice: For a swansong, Sakamoto played 20 of his greatest compositions — to no audience. Sakamoto died aged 71 in March 2023 of a cancer that made touring and performing impossible during his final ...