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Behind Ryuichi Sakamoto’s last performance
An interview with director Neo Sora about the career-spanning concert movie
The film — which features a career-spanning selection from his oeuvre of pop music, movie scores, and experimental and ambient compositions — rearranges many songs for solo piano; a showcase of the strength and mutability of Sakamoto’s work. He agreed, put his own film on hold, and a few months later, got started on what would eventually be Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus, the lasting impression of one of the world’s most influential and celebrated musicians. You might expect a career-spanning concert film to look something like, say, the maximalist commercial spectacle of Taylor Swift, or to take notes from the Talking Heads’ mischievous Stop Making Sense, rereleased in theaters by A24 late last year.
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