Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda gets to all of this context in a circuitous way, going back in time during moments of reflection. Ryuichi Sakamoto in Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (photo by Neo Sora) (photo courtesy of MUBI) Since that moment, he has recorded over 30 soundtracks for film, television, and video games, and won an Academy Award in 1987 for his symphonic score to Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor (1987). Lawrence (1983), he requested that he be able to score the film as well.
When Sakamoto was invited by the late Japanese director Nagisa Oshima to star opposite David Bowie in his film Merry Christmas Mr. They would also signal the next stage of his career. His first two solo releases, Thousand Knives (1978) and B-2 Unit (1980), are mood pieces that are in line with electronic experimenters like Oneohtrix Point Never and Arca today. Concurrently, the members of YMO were all pursuing solo careers, none more erratic than Sakamoto. “Firecracker,” their first big single, a slinky and infectious burst of electro cheese whiz, helped push their reach to the US, where they ended up appearing on an episode of Soul Train. Ryuichi Sakamoto in Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (photo by SKMTDOC, LLC.) (photo courtesy of MUBI)īorn in Tokyo in 1952, Sakamoto first came to prominence as a co-founder of pioneering electronic music trio Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO).
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