Ryuichi Sakamoto
Born: 1952-01-17 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: 2023-03-28
Known For: Sound
Biography
Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一, Sakamoto Ryūichi, January 17, 1952 - March 28, 2023) was a Japanese composer, record producer, and actor who had pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres.
Filmography
2025
- Flames of a Flower ... (Theme Song Performance)
- Sons of the Neon Night ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries as Self (archive footage)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto | Playing the Orchestra 2014 as Self
2024
- Black Ox ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tonovan Musician Kazuhiko Kato and His Era as Self
- Ryuichi Sakamoto's Last Days
2023
- Monster ... (Original Music Composer)
- Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV as Self (archive footage)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus as Self
- SUGA: Road to D-DAY as Self
- Stalingrad - Stimmen aus Ruinen ... (Music)
2022
- After Yang ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Piano Cinéma ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 2022 as Himself
- exception ... (Music Producer)
2021
- Love After Love ... (Original Music Composer)
- Brilliant Trees Sessions
- Beckett ... (Original Music Composer)
- Moskau 1941 - Stimmen am Abgrund ... (Music)
- NHK MUSIC SPECIAL
- Apausalypse ... (Music)
2020
- Adult Baby ... (Musician)
- OKINA: Dance of Life
- Minamata ... (Original Music Composer)
- Incomplete ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto Playing the Piano for the Isolated
2019
- Proxima ... (Original Music Composer)
- My Tyrano: Together, Forever ... (Original Music Composer)
- No Smoking as Self
- Paradise Next ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Staggering Girl ... (Original Music Composer)
- Agniyogana ... (Original Music Composer)
2018
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: async at the Park Avenue Armory as Self
- Your Face ... (Original Music Composer)
2017
- Star Sand ... (Music)
- The Fortress ... (Original Music Composer)
- Haiku On A Plum Tree ... (Music)
- async - first light ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda as Self
- A Gentle Glow ... (Music)
- Fullmoon ... (Music)
2016
- Rage ... (Original Music Composer)
- Thirteen Talks
- Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto: The Glass House as Self
- The Ferryman ... (Original Music Composer)
2015
- The Revenant ... (Original Music Composer)
- Nagasaki: Memories of My Son ... (Original Music Composer)
- 700 Days with Ryuichi Sakamoto as Self
2014
- Nuclear Nation II ... (Theme Song Performance)
2013
- Yae's Sakura ... (Theme Song Performance)
- Psychedelic Afternoon ... (Original Music Composer)
2012
- I Have to Buy New Shoes ... (Original Music Composer)
- Nuclear Nation ... (Theme Song Performance)
- Yellow Magic Orchestra - YMONHK as Self
2011
- Black Mirror ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai ... (Original Music Composer)
- Utau Live in Tokyo 2010 - A Project of Taeko Onuki & Ryuichi Sakamoto ... (Music)
- Tripitaka Koreana Special ‘Dharma’ ... (Music)
2010
- Dhobi Ghat ... (Original Music Composer)
- Burning Ice as Self
2009
- Women Without Men ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist as Self
- POSTYMO / Yellow Magic Orchestra as himself
2007
- Silk ... (Original Music Composer)
- 100年インタビュー as ゲスト
2006
2005
- Shining Boy and Little Randy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Zarin ... (Original Music Composer)
2004
- Tony Takitani ... (Original Music Composer)
- Appleseed ... (Original Music Composer)
2003
- Life Is Journey ... (Original Music Composer)
- VisualYMO:the Best
- Femme Fatale: Dream Within a Dream as Self
- The Blonds ... (Music)
2002
- Femme Fatale ... (Original Music Composer)
- Miki Nakatani: AIR POCKET ... (Original Music Composer)
- Derrida ... (Original Music Composer)
- Alexei and the Spring ... (Original Music Composer)
- My Daughter ... (Sound)
2001
2000
1999
- Taboo ... (Original Music Composer)
- New Rose Hotel as Hosaka Executive
- Complete Hurrah as Self
- Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 as Director (segment "Rain")
1998
- Snake Eyes ... (Original Music Composer)
- Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon ... (Original Music Composer)
- Jounetsu Tairiku
1996
- Wild Side ... (Original Music Composer)
1993
- Little Buddha ... (Original Music Composer)
- YMO – Live At Budokan 1980 as self
- TV-YMO as Self
- Wild Palms ... (Original Music Composer)
- Today's Close-Up
- Rabbit Ears - Peachboy ... (Original Music Composer)
1992
- Wuthering Heights ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tokyo Decadence ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hurrah: Yellow Magic Orchestra
- YMO – Hi-Tech Video Crime as Self
1991
- High Heels ... (Original Music Composer)
- Marisa Monte: Mais as Self
1990
- The Handmaid's Tale ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Sheltering Sky ... (Original Music Composer)
- Infinite Escher ... (Original Music Composer)
1989
- NHK Special as Self
1987
- The Last Emperor as Amakasu
- Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise ... (Original Music Composer)
- Brand New Day as Self
- NEO GEO ～1987.7.19 NHKホール～
1986
- The Adventures of Milo and Otis ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bye Bye Kipling as Self
- TV WAR as Self
- Adelic Penguins
1985
- Steel Cathedrals as Self - Piano/strings
- All Star Video as Self
- Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto as Self
- On the Beach ... (Music Arranger)
- A Human Tube
1984
1983
- It's All Right, My Friend ... (Original Music Composer)
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence as Yonoi
- The Oshima Gang as Self
- Where the Toys Come From ... (Music Arranger)
- YMO JAPAN TOUR at Nippon Budokan as Self - Keyboards
- YMO: Winter Live '81 as Self