Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ask Ryuichi Sakamoto if a movie saved his life, and he'll say yes. In June of 2014, the famed Japanese composer was diagnosed with ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto is sitting quietly in the back of his studio. Nestled on the garden floor of a West Village townhouse, the small space is filled with musical equipment — at least a dozen keyboards ...

Over the weekend, the management team of Ryuichi Sakamoto shared a final parting gift from the towering musician, who died in March — a playlist he compiled for his funeral. The 33-song set runs for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ryuichi Sakamoto, the influential electronic music composer and member of the Yellow Magic Orchestra who won an Oscar for the ...

TOKYO — At the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, a standing-room-only crowd watches the unfolding of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani’s “TIME TIME” (2024). The shadow of a woman playing a shō, a ...

Legendary Japanese composer and electronic/ambient musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has sadly revealed that he is battling stage 4 cancer. The Japan Times reports: Musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto ...

Sad news: the great Ryuichi Sakamoto has died. He left us on March 28 at age 71. He had been battling stage 4 cancer. The news came via his website: An Announcement We are deeply saddened to announce ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto's management has shared the final playlist the composer made before his death at the end of March, writing that Sakamoto was "with music until the very end". The playlist is simply ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto was a man of numerous gifts; a pianist, keyboard player and musician, producer, singer, songwriter, composer and even an actor. Despite considerable success as a solo artist and ...

Exceleration Music and NexTone have acquired the recording and publishing catalog of Ryuichi Sakamoto, one of Japan’s most celebrated cultural legacies. U.S.-based independent music company ...

Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto feared that cancer would end his career, but a call from Alejandro González Iñárritu may have saved his life. Ask Ryuichi Sakamoto if a movie saved his life, and he’ll say ...

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 ...