Actually, he not only won an Oscar, but also a Grammy, two Golden Globes, and many more awards during a long musical career. Sakamoto died on March 28 but today it has been confirmed through his Instagram profile, with a polysemic post that shows his date of birth and death, and then a destroyed piano.
And it makes perfect sense. Ryuichi Sakamoto, considered one of Japan’s foremost composers, was the founder of the techno-pop group Yellow Magic Orchestra.
He composed music for movies like The last Emperor (1987), the sheltering sky (1990), and the little buddha (1993), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, and the revenant (2015) by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
He is recognized as a versatile composer capable of expanding his music in the fields of techno, video game tracks; from great orchestral compositions to piano solos.
One of his best-known pieces composed with his Yellow Magic Orchestra is “Computer Game” (1979).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ysj_OwHAk
In 1983, with no acting experience, he agreed to co-star with David Bowie in the film Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence Director Nagisa Oshima. He made it a condition to compose the soundtrack for the film about a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
He considers himself an innovator of Japanese music, who managed to dialogue with (and satirize) the Western gaze towards Japan.
After the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, Sakamoto also became an activist in the anti-nuclear movement. your disk Out of noise, it is full of appeals to the sounds and silences of nature, in a notable environmental gesture.
He was born in January 1952. From the age of 6 he began to study piano and very soon also to compose. He was a great artist who leaves an extensive and beautiful universal work.
