Ryuichi Sakamoto Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

social media accounts.A statement on his official website reads: “While undergoing treatment for cancer discovered in June 2020, Sakamoto continued to create works in his home studio whenever his health would allow. He lived with music until the very end.”“We would like to express out deepest gratitude to his fans and all those who have supported his activities, as well as medical professionals in Japan and the United States who did everything in their power to cure him.”“In accordance with Sakamoto’s strong wishes, the funeral service was held among his close family members.

Thirty-five years after winning the Oscar for original score for Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor, David Byrne is back at the 95th edition of the awards ceremony performing the Oscar-nominated song “This is A Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once with the pic’s composers and song writer Son Lux and the pic’s Oscar nominated supporting actress Stephanie Hsu. Japanese sing Mitski sings the end credits song in the movie with Byrne.

Wild Bunch International (WBI) and Japan’s Gaga Corporation have announced that the two companies will again collaborate on international sales on Monster, directed by award-winning filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Is Hirokazu Kore-Eda eyeing a Cannes 2023 world premiere for his upcoming film “Monster“? It looks that way, as he’s already in post-production for the film, slated for a June 2 theatrical release in his native Japan. And as work on the film continues, more news on Kore-Eda’s collaborators breaks.

Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and Sakura Ando have boarded Monster, the new film from Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-Eda.

Thundercat has recorded a cover of Ryuichi Sakamoto‘s ‘Thousand Knives’, the title track from the Japanese composer’s 1978 solo debut – listen to it below.The cover is part of a new compilation that pays tribute to Sakamoto,in celebration of his 70th birthday. ‘A Tribute To Ryuichi Sakamoto: To The Moon And Back’ is due out on December 2 via Milan Records.Thundercat’s bass-laden take on ‘Thousand Knives’ is about half the length of Sakamoto’s vocoder-heavy original, with brand-new English lyrics fitting with the melody.It’s the first single from the album, with other artists to appear including Devonté Hynes (AKA Blood Orange), Fennesz, David Sylvian, Cornelius, and the Cinematic Orchestra.Last month, Sakamoto shared two new songs that were made for the Netflix anime series Exception.

A host of artists, including Dev Hynes and Oscar-winner Hildur Guðnadóttir, will share their love of Ryuichi Sakamoto on new tribute album To the Moon and Back. The album, out December 2, is launching with a reworking of the Japanese composer's "Thousand Knives" by Thundercat. Check it out below.

Ryuichi Sakamoto has shared two new songs that were made for the Netflix anime series Exception – listen below.The two songs – ‘Opening for ‘Exception’’ and ‘Oxygen’ – soundtrack the new space horror anime series, which is based on a new story by Hirotaka Adachi.The series is due to launch globally on October 14, with ‘Exception (Soundtrack From the Netflix Anime Series)’ out on the same day via Milan Records.The official synopsis of the series reads: “In the distant future, humanity has been forced to leave Earth and migrate to another galaxy. A spacecraft is sent to a planet to terraform it and the crew is created one by one by a biological 3D printer.“However, a fatal error occurs during the creation of one of the members.

SISTAR are set to reunite for their first-ever performance since their disbandment in 2017.On July 19, JTBC reported that the girl group — which comprised members Hyolyn, Bora, Soyou and Dasom — will be reuniting to perform on the final episode of live music show Yoo Hee Yeol’s Sketchbook. The programme will be ending its 13-year run with its 600th episode, which is set to air on July 22 KST on KBS.The quartet released their final single ‘Lonely’ in May 2017, later appearing on South Korea’s four major weekly music shows to perform their most successful hits, ‘Touch My Body’, ‘Shake It’, ‘Loving U’ and ‘I Swear’, before officially disbanding on June 4 the same year.Former members Hyolyn and Dasom had previously teamed up in August 2021 for the single ‘Summer Or Summer’ for Contents Lab VIVO’s ‘How To Spend 2021 Well’ project, the proceeds of which were donated to those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tomoko (Muneaki Kitsukawa) — the young daughter of his host family — the real song drops on the soundtrack, a moment of excessive underlining. Another moment, where Smith reflects on rejecting a bribe from a Chisso executive, is complicated by unnecessarily non-linear storytelling and some aggressive scoring from composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.Cinematographer Benoît Delhomme (“At Eternity’s Gate) crafts a naturalistic look with practical lighting and a fluid camera, rendering the film with a dark beauty, but Levitas also incorporates archival and recreated footage of the protests at Chisso, as well as capturing the photographic process with slow, almost completely still black-and-white sequences.

Ryuichi Sakamoto has announced that he has been diagnosed with rectal cancer. In a statement posted on his website, the beloved Japanese composer confirmed that a recent surgery was successful and that he's currently undergoing treatment.

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Since the end of March, Japanese musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has been sharing some of his past concerts online to spread some joy in these times of coronavirus self-isolation.As social distancing continues without an end in sight, the renowned composer has added two more rare concert recordings to the list, to be premiered on YouTube.The first, set to go live Friday (April 24), is a concert he performed with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra on piano and as conductor called Ryuichi

Ryuichi Sakamoto is the composer behind Call Me by Your Name director Luca Guadagnino’s new short film The Staggering Girl. Sakamoto’s soundtrack for the film is out February 14 via Milan Records. Find a clip from the film, which is coming to the streaming service MUBI on February 15, below.