"Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda" screens at Webster University’s Winifred Moore auditorium Friday, October 5 through Sunday, October 7 at 7:30 each evening. A portrait of a composer who is considered the founder of modern pop music in Japan, and who is also a. Best of all, he invites us to share his thoughts, his sensitivity, and his hope in this calm, restrained and thoroughly appealing profile. It is in this vein that he considers monumental questions for example, wanting to explore where we came from he travels to Northern Kenya. Meantime he's fascinated by the idea of perpetual sound as a metaphor for eternity.
He talks about the appeal of the piano forced into its shape and its sound that attenuates and disappears.
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One of the gifts of this lovely portrait of Sakamoto is listening to snippets of his music for those films, plus "The Revenant," "Sheltering Sky," and "Solaris."īut the primary appeal of "Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda" comes from following this humble, quiet man as he reminisces, composes, and contemplates nature. Sakamoto would go on to win an Academy Award winner for Best Original Score, with David Byrne and Cong Su, for "The Last Emperor," 1987. He told director Nagisa Oshima he'd act in it only if he could also compose the score. Sakamoto's musical talent extends to film work that began when he was cast in "Merry Christmas Mr. In fact, he blends sounds of wind, water, and more into some of his music. Sakamoto became an anti-nuclear activist but he is known more generally for his musical compositions, his acting, and love of nature. The film begins with Sakamoto lovingly examining a piano that survived the 2011 tsunami that devastated Fukushima, Japan, where nuclear disaster followed at the power plants.
In the documentary tribute to him, "Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda," director Stephen Nomura Schible captures his spirit, his art, and his inspirational approach to society. One of those amazing people is Ryuichi Sakamoto, an award-winning Japanese musician and an environmental activist. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda is a gentle and reflective portrait of both the artist and the man.Some rare, wonderful individuals have the gift of modeling ways to approach life and persevere in the face of illness. Granted unprecedented access to Mr Sakamoto's life and work, Stephen Nomura Schible's sensitive and illuminating film stands not only as a portrait of an extraordinary career, but as one of the most intimate examinations of the creative process ever committed to film. As Mr Sakamoto returns to music following his battle with throat cancer, his haunting awareness of his own life crisis, as well as that of his country and the whole world, leads to a creation of a resounding new masterpiece. A constant innovator, Mr Sakamoto’s music has evolved in lockstep with his evolution as an artist and thinker.įollowing the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Mr Sakamoto became an iconic figure in Japan’s social movement against nuclear power and an unofficial spokesperson for the fear, anger and anxiety of the Japanese people. One of the most important artistic minds of our era, Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a prolific career spanning over four decades, from techno-pop star, to actor, to Oscar-winning film composer. 'A portrait of an artist that's nearly as powerful and necessary as the artist himself.'
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