Sakamoto, a trailblazing composer and producer who was one of the first musicians to incorporate electronic production into popular songcraft, died last month after a multi-year battle with cancer.

Drawing on his diaries and private footage, “Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries” poignantly traces the final three and a half years of ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto, the influential electronic music composer and member of the Yellow Magic Orchestra who won an Oscar for the score for “The Last Emperor” and composed the haunting score for “Merry ...

As he explains, it was no small task to chronicle what he knew could be his father’s last artistic gift to the world. But when speaking about the film, Sora maintains a studied objectivity that ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto, keyboardist for the pioneering Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra and Oscar-winning composer of films like The Last Emperor and The Revenant, has died at the age ...

The composer has been lauded for decades over his deeply affective music; director Alejandro González Iñárritu, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir... As Ryuichi Sakamoto returns with '12,' fellow artists ...

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The composer and producer Ryuichi Sakamoto has died. He was 71 and had a long fight with cancer. Whether you've heard of him or not, he influenced the music you've heard because he was one of the ...