Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto dead at 71

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Originally published at: Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto dead at 71 | Boing Boing

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[GagHalfrunt]

Ryuichi Sakamoto: the avant gardist who became a groundbreaking pop star

[ChuckV]

The Last Emperor (Theme)

[generic_name]

Two of my favorite Sakamoto moments.

Behind The Mask - YMO

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Neo Geo

[williamkattwill]

Kotaro Oshio - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawlence (PV)

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence [1983] Official Trailer

[anon52120741]

He was so versatile!

Ryuichi Sakamoto feat. Iggy Pop ~ Risky

[Doctor_Faustus]

I’ve said it before: that song has a totally different context for me, which doesn’t make it less powerful. On the contrary.

Ryuichi Sakamoto's moving piano rendition of Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

I, like many Germans over a certain age, associate this tune not with the movie it was written for, but with journalist Gerd Ruge’s series of travel documentaries, many of which chronicled the transformation of the former Soviet states from just after the fall of the USSR to the first decade of the 2000s. [Gerd Ruge: Rund um Moskau (2009)] Nothing is more evocative of the “Wild East” for me as “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”

1995 Gerd Ruge unterweg von petersburg nach Moskau