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NEWS: Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto Diagnosed With Rectal Cancer




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iamthevastuniverse





PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2021 5:24 am Reply with quote
Unique resume hopefully he beats the cancer once again.
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immortal1982



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2021 7:26 am Reply with quote
I take it from the reading that unfortunately it is a terminal diagnosis.
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Zhou-BR



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2021 12:53 pm Reply with quote
Hopefully he'll still live for a few more years despite the cancer.

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He won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for The Last Emperor film in 1988. Sakamoto composed the soundtracks of The Wings of Honneamise, the Appleseed anime movies, and Le Chevalier D'Eon.


It was Michiru Oshima who composed the soundtrack for Le Chevalier D'Eon. The Ryuichi Sakamoto who worked on the show is a CG animator who also does digital compositing.
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MFrontier



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2021 11:44 pm Reply with quote
I wish him the best with his condition.
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ranran-001



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 12:37 am Reply with quote
Don't forget he had done the score for The Revenant, I think prior to that he hadn't done any film scores for movies outside of Japan in decades.
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MIBlackburn_d6



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 12:00 pm Reply with quote
ranran-001 wrote:
Don't forget he had done the score for The Revenant, I think prior to that he hadn't done any film scores for movies outside of Japan in decades.
He's done a few non-Japanese projects since 2000. He's done South Korean, Iranian, Indian and a couple of multinational projects as well as Japanese projects. I just found out he did an episode in series 5 of Black Mirror.

I hope he recovers, I was lucky enough to see him as part of his trio in 2011 in London and I hope he can do more shows and albums/soundtracks in the future.
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WhiteOrochi



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 8:49 pm Reply with quote
He's been unlucky to suffer two types of cancer? God bless his soul. I'm not familiar at all with his work, but I wish him a long life still.
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omiya



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2021 8:58 pm Reply with quote
WhiteOrochi wrote:
I'm not familiar at all with his work, but I wish him a long life still.


Ryuichi Sakamoto was a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra famous for songs like Technopolis (official PV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2lOyCxRp5s ) and Rydeen.

Rydeen was covered in Sound! Euphonium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5jyEphbGo4

Original Yellow Magic Orchestra PV of Rydeen (Ryuichi Sakamoto on keyboards): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFu66ye6YWM

Rydeen from a live that I attended in 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWLv8q7qjag

Also see this clip of the promotional song for Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mvuDxs4Ot4 with Ryuichi Sakamoto on keyboards.
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