Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Oscar-winning Japanese composer famed for his scores for The Last Emperor, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and other films, has died aged 71. Ryuichi Sakamoto died March 28, his ...

The post Kraftwerk Pay Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto with Cover of “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” in Japan: Watch appeared first on Consequence. Before beginning the song, Kraftwerk’s Ralf Hütter ...

Ryuichi by Rensis, Rensis Ho shows a collection of previously unpublished photos of the ‘spiritual’ Japanese musician he took ...

Kraftwerk have honoured the late Ryuichi Sakamoto with a cover performance of his famous 1983 track ‘Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence’. The group performed a tribute over the weekend at Fuji Rock Festival ...

Kraftwerk played Japan’s Fuji Rock festival on Saturday, and in the midst of iconic electropop singles “The Man-Machine,” “Autobahn,” “Tour de France,” “Computer World,” “The Model,” “Trans-Europe ...

There’s a league of musicians whose deaths have felt particularly earth-shattering, because of a naïve, but widely shared, presumption that they would simply live on forever. That pantheon includes – ...

Back in 1983, Ryuichi Sakamoto composed the award-winning score for the Nagisa Ôshima-directed film Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, capturing one of the Japanese musical hero's finest moments. More than ...

The musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who has died aged 71 of cancer, spent his life as a restless traveller, personally and musically. “I was born in Japan but I don’t think I’m Japanese,” he said in 1988, ...

BERLIN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 24: Japanese musician, composer and member of the jury Ryuichi Sakamoto attends the closing ceremony during the 68th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at ...

Last year, Ryuichi Sakamoto tragically passed away at age 71. Before his death, Fennesz, David Sylvian, Dev Hynes, Cornelius, and more contributed to a tribute album for the legendary Japanese ...

In this captivating, skewed World War II drama from Nagisa Oshima, David Bowie regally embodies Celliers, a British officer interned by the Japanese as a POW. Rock star Ryuichi Sakamoto (who also ...