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He graduated from Tokyo National University's Fine Arts & Music program with a M.A. in music composition with special emphasis on {{electronic|music}} and [[WorldMusic ethnic]] music, which would define a good chunk of his musical career. He has pursued a diverse range of styles both solo and, famously, as a member of Music/YellowMagicOrchestra. He also collaborated with former Music/{{Japan}} frontman Music/DavidSylvian extensively in his early solo career. Alongside YMO, Sakamoto is considered a major influence on western electro, {{techno}}, and HipHop artists, with analysts labeling his 1980 song "Riot in Lagos" the TropeMaker for electro.
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He graduated from Tokyo National University's Fine Arts & Music program with a M.A. in music composition with special emphasis on {{electronic|music}} and [[WorldMusic ethnic]] music, which would define a good chunk of his musical career. He has pursued a diverse range of styles both solo and, famously, as a member of Music/YellowMagicOrchestra. He also collaborated with former Music/{{Japan}} frontman Music/DavidSylvian extensively in his early solo career. Alongside YMO, Sakamoto is considered a major influence on western electro, {{techno}}, and HipHop artists, with analysts labeling his 1980 song "Riot in Lagos" the TropeMaker {{Trope Maker|s}} for electro.
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Do not confuse him for the similarly named [[VideoGame/Persona5 Ryuji Sakamoto]].
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* InconsistentSpelling: A number of early '80s releases Romanized his given name as "Riuichi" instead of "Ryuichi," despite the latter having been used since his debut album. The "Ryuichi" spelling would eventually become standard with the release of ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence'' in 1983, which credited him as "Ryuichi Sakamoto" for audiences around the world to see.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: A number of early '80s releases Romanized his given name as "Riuichi" instead of "Ryuichi," despite the latter having been used since his debut album. The "Ryuichi" spelling would eventually become standard with the release of ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence'' in 1983, which credited him as "Ryuichi Sakamoto" for audiences around the world to see.
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Acting-wise, his best known roles are without much doubt the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era Captain Yonoi, who ends up extremely troubled by Music/DavidBowie as a prisoner of war in ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence'', and Masahiko Amakasu in ''Film/TheLastEmperor''. He also composed the soundtracks for both films and plenty of others works such as the 1992 film version of ''Literature/WutheringHeights'', ''Film/TheRevenant'' or ''Recap/BlackMirrorSmithereens'', as well as the 1992 Summer UsefulNotes/OlympicGames in Barcelona.
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Acting-wise, his best known roles are without much doubt the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era Captain Yonoi, Yonoi in ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence'', who ends up extremely troubled by Music/DavidBowie as a prisoner of war in ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence'', war, and Masahiko Amakasu in ''Film/TheLastEmperor''. He also composed the soundtracks for both films and plenty of others works such as the 1992 film version of ''Literature/WutheringHeights'', ''Film/TheRevenant'' or and ''Recap/BlackMirrorSmithereens'', as well as the 1992 Summer UsefulNotes/OlympicGames in Barcelona.
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* GenreRoulette: He frequently did albums in different genres, but in terms of an album where that is the case, he really went for it on "Heartbeat", as its theme is that it features musical genres from around the world in multiple languages.
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* GenreRoulette: He frequently did albums in different genres, but in terms of an album where that is the case, he really went for it on "Heartbeat", ''Heartbeat'', as its theme is that it features musical genres from around the world in multiple languages.languages. Consequently, while HouseMusic and acid jazz glue the album together, the individual songs vary between stuff like TripHop, chaoui music, French rap, NewRomantic music, electric swing with Ukrainian monologuing, and ClassicalMusic.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every track on ''12'' is titled after its recording date, written in the Japanese Year/Month/Day format and represented as a continuous series of numbers without any spaces or dashes (e.g. "20210310" for March 10, 2021).
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** The international release of ''Heartbeat'' replaces the Japanese-language versions of "High Tide" and "Sayonara" with English-language ones, replaces "Tainai Kaiki II" with the Music/DavidSylvian collaboration "Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) -- Returning to the Womb", and appends "Cloud #9" to the end of the album.
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** The international release of ''Heartbeat'' replaces the Japanese-language versions of "High Tide" and "Sayonara" with English-language ones, replaces ones and "Tainai Kaiki II" with the Music/DavidSylvian collaboration collaborations "Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) -- Returning to the Womb", Womb" and appends "Cloud #9" to the end of the album.#9".
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* MarketBasedTitle: The movie ''Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence'' was renamed ''Furyo'' in Europe; the soundtrack album was consequently renamed there to match.
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** The movie ''Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence'' was renamed ''Furyo'' in Europe; the soundtrack album was consequently renamed there tomatch.match.
** The European release of ''Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia" renames "Ma Mère L'oie" to "Zen-Gun".
** The movie ''Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence'' was renamed ''Furyo'' in Europe; the soundtrack album was consequently renamed there to
** The European release of ''Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia" renames "Ma Mère L'oie" to "Zen-Gun".
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** On a meta level, Sakamoto's first and last scoring projects were for Japanese queer drama films. The first was 1983's ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence'', which focuses on the homoerotic tension between a Japanese prison camp commander and a rebellious South African prisoner. The last was ''Monster'' 40 years later, which details the tension between a mother and her closeted son.
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* PopStarComposer: Sakamoto is one of the most successful cases of a pop star entering the world of soundtrack composing, having been an in-demand scorer since his first project in the field, 1983's ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence'' (which he also co-starred in). He kept it up all the way until his death, with his last scoring project being the queer drama ''Monster'', which premiered two months after he passed away. Outside of Japan, he ended up being more successful as a composer than as a pop musician, despite many attempts to crack the western pop market in the '80s and '90s.
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** The international version of ''Beauty'' opens with "You Do Me" and ends with the song's single mix, which is a HiddenTrack.
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** The On later pressings, the international version of ''Beauty'' opens with "You Do Me" and ends with the song's single mix, which is a HiddenTrack.
* LongestSongGoesLast: ''Beauty'' is an interesting case. Japanese LP and cassette releases and initial international releases end with "Chinsagu no Hana", which clocks in at nearly seven and a half minutes. Japanese CD releases end with "Adagio", which is even longer at 7:47. Later pressings of the international edition avert this entirely, tacking on the 7" mix of "You Do Me", which is only four minutes, at the end as a HiddenTrack.
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** The international release of ''Beauty'' adds two mixes of "You Do Me", which {{bookend|s}} the album, remixes the CoverVersion of [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand "We Love You"]], and drops the CoverVersion of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings".
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** The international release of ''Beauty'' adds two mixes of "You Do Me", which {{bookend|s}} the album, remixes the CoverVersion of [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand "We Love You"]], and drops the CoverVersion of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings".Strings". Later copies of the international edition edit the album further by adding the 7" version of "You Do Me" at the end as a HiddenTrack, consequently {{bookend|s}}ing the record with the same song.
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* ''Monster'' (2023)
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* ''Film/{{Minamata}}'' (2020)
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* ''Film/{{Minamata}}'' ''Minamata'' (2020)
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In 2014, Sakamoto was diagnosed with throat cancer, leading him to go on hiatus for a year to seek treatment. While he announced his recovery in 2015, he also pointed out that the length of its effectiveness was highly variable and that he was at risk of remission. In 2017, he released ''async'' as a meditation on his experiences with cancer and his newfound awareness of his own mortality. Four years later, he announced that he was recovering from surgery to remove a rectal tumor. Six days after Yellow Magic Orchestra bandmate Music/YukihiroTakahashi's death from pneumonia in 2023 (a complication of his own battle with brain cancer), Sakamoto put out ''12'' as an elaboration on ''async''[='s=] themes of mortality. Two months later, Sakamoto himself passed away.
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In 2014, Sakamoto was diagnosed with throat cancer, leading him to go on hiatus for a year to seek treatment. While he announced his recovery in 2015, he also pointed out that the length of its effectiveness was highly variable and that he was at risk of remission. In 2017, he released ''async'' as a meditation on his experiences with cancer and his newfound awareness of his own mortality. Four years later, he announced that he was recovering from surgery to remove a rectal tumor. Six On Sakamoto's 71st birthday, six days after Yellow Magic Orchestra bandmate Music/YukihiroTakahashi's death from pneumonia in 2023 (a complication of his own battle with brain cancer), Sakamoto he put out ''12'' as an elaboration on ''async''[='s=] themes of mortality. Two months later, Sakamoto himself passed away.
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In 2014, Sakamoto was diagnosed with throat cancer, leading him to go on hiatus for a year to seek treatment. While he announced his recovery in 2015, he also pointed out that the length of its effectiveness was highly variable and that he was at risk of remission. In 2017, he released ''async'' as a meditation on his experiences with cancer and his newfound awareness of his own mortality. Four years later, he announced that he was recovering from surgery to remove a rectal tumor. Six days after Yellow Magic Orchestra bandmate Music/YukihiroTakahashi's death from pneumonia in 2023 (a complication of his own battle with brain cancer), Sakamoto put out ''12'' as an elaboration on ''async''[='s=] themes of mortality. Two months later, Sakamoto himself passed away.
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* ''12'' (2023)
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Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一 Sakamoto Ryūichi, born January 17, 1952 in Tokyo) is a prolific Japanese composer, singer, songwriter and record producer, and an anti-nuclear activist. [[RenaissanceMan He's also had some acting roles, and wrote some anime and video games in addition to soundtracks]].
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Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一 Sakamoto Ryūichi, born January 17, 1952 in Tokyo) is - March 28, 2023) was a prolific Japanese composer, singer, songwriter and record producer, and an anti-nuclear activist. [[RenaissanceMan He's He also had some acting roles, and wrote some anime and video games in addition to soundtracks]].
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** The UK release of ''B-2 Unit'' replaces "Participation Mystique" with the Japanese non-album single "War Head".
** The international release of ''Left Handed Dream'' axes "Relâché", "Tell 'em to Me", "Living in the Dark", "Venezia" and "Saru no Ie" and adds in the four songs from the concurrent EP ''The Arrangement'' -- "The Left Bank", "The Arrangement" "Just About Enough", and "Once in a Lifetime". The song order is also reshuffled to account for this. The Dutch CD release, meanwhile, mostly follows the Japanese tracklist, but appends the songs from ''The Arrangement'' to the end as bonus tracks.
** The international release of ''Left Handed Dream'' axes "Relâché", "Tell 'em to Me", "Living in the Dark", "Venezia" and "Saru no Ie" and adds in the four songs from the concurrent EP ''The Arrangement'' -- "The Left Bank", "The Arrangement" "Just About Enough", and "Once in a Lifetime". The song order is also reshuffled to account for this. The Dutch CD release, meanwhile, mostly follows the Japanese tracklist, but appends the songs from ''The Arrangement'' to the end as bonus tracks.
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** The international release of ''Chasm'' drops "the land song -- music for Artelligent City" and adds "Song" and "World" just before the closing track. The vinyl release, meanwhile, drops the TitleTrack, "only love can conquer hate", "break with", and ""laménto" in order to fit the album on one LP.
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** The international release of ''Chasm'' drops "the land song -- music for Artelligent City" and adds "Song" and "World" just before the closing track. The vinyl release, meanwhile, drops the TitleTrack, "only love can conquer hate", "break with", and ""laménto" "laménto" in order to fit the album on one LP.
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** The Japanese version of ''Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia'' opens with "Tibetan Dance" and closes with a remix of the same.
** The international version of ''Beauty'' opens with "You Do Me" and ends with the song's single mix, which is a HiddenTrack.
** The Japanese version of ''Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia'' opens with "Tibetan Dance" and closes with a remix of the same.
** The international version of ''Beauty'' opens with "You Do Me" and ends with the song's single mix, which is a HiddenTrack.
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** The international release of ''Illustrated Music Encyclopedia'' adds the London Mix of "Field Work" and "Steppin' into Asia" and removes "Self Portrait", "Tabinokyokuhoku", "Morinohito", "A Tribute to N.J.P.", "Replica", and "Tibetan Dance (Version)". The running order is also considerably altered to account for this. Consequently, the album is shortened from just under an hour to roughly 41 minutes.
** The international release of ''Beauty'' adds two mixes of "You Do Me", which {{bookend|s}} the album, remixes the CoverVersion of [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand "We Love You"]], and drops the CoverVersion of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings".
** The international release of ''Heartbeat'' replaces the Japanese-language versions of "High Tide" and "Sayonara" with English-language ones, replaces "Tainai Kaiki II" with the Music/DavidSylvian collaboration "Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) -- Returning to the Womb", and appends "Cloud #9" to the end of the album.
** The international release of ''Sweet Revenge'' replaces the Japanese-language versions of "Sentimental" and "Water's Edge" with English-language re-recordings, remixes "Moving On", "Regret", "Pounding at My Heart", "Same Dream, Same Destination", and "Interruptions", and drops "Anna" and "Psychedelic Afternoon".
** The American and Brazilian releases of ''1996'' drop the last four tracks, while the UK release drops only the very last one.
** The international release of ''Chasm'' drops "the land song -- music for Artelligent City" and adds "Song" and "World" just before the closing track. The vinyl release, meanwhile, drops the TitleTrack, "only love can conquer hate", "break with", and ""laménto" in order to fit the album on one LP.
** The international release of ''Illustrated Music Encyclopedia'' adds the London Mix of "Field Work" and "Steppin' into Asia" and removes "Self Portrait", "Tabinokyokuhoku", "Morinohito", "A Tribute to N.J.P.", "Replica", and "Tibetan Dance (Version)". The running order is also considerably altered to account for this. Consequently, the album is shortened from just under an hour to roughly 41 minutes.
** The international release of ''Beauty'' adds two mixes of "You Do Me", which {{bookend|s}} the album, remixes the CoverVersion of [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand "We Love You"]], and drops the CoverVersion of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings".
** The international release of ''Heartbeat'' replaces the Japanese-language versions of "High Tide" and "Sayonara" with English-language ones, replaces "Tainai Kaiki II" with the Music/DavidSylvian collaboration "Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) -- Returning to the Womb", and appends "Cloud #9" to the end of the album.
** The international release of ''Sweet Revenge'' replaces the Japanese-language versions of "Sentimental" and "Water's Edge" with English-language re-recordings, remixes "Moving On", "Regret", "Pounding at My Heart", "Same Dream, Same Destination", and "Interruptions", and drops "Anna" and "Psychedelic Afternoon".
** The American and Brazilian releases of ''1996'' drop the last four tracks, while the UK release drops only the very last one.
** The international release of ''Chasm'' drops "the land song -- music for Artelligent City" and adds "Song" and "World" just before the closing track. The vinyl release, meanwhile, drops the TitleTrack, "only love can conquer hate", "break with", and ""laménto" in order to fit the album on one LP.
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* GreenAesop: "World Citizen -- I Won't Be Disappointed" is a ProtestSong about the continuing issue of pollution and the grave consequences it holds if it continues progressing at its current rate.
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* ProtestSong: ''Chasm'' is an entire protest ''album'', venting out Sakamoto's frustrations with the state of the world in the 2000s, covering themes ranging from the jingoism of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror to the longtime issue of pollution.
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* BoxedSet: Sakamoto released ''The Complete Güt Box'' in 2012, compiling the four studio albums he released in Japan under Güt Records, the soundtrack to ''Little Buddha'' (originally released in Japan by Güt's parent label, For Life), and various remixes, live performances, and associated rarities.
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* SensoryAbuse: "Coro", composed for the 2004 film adaptation of ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' and later included on ''Chasm'' that same year, consists of loud, discordant {{chiptune}} blasts and buzzes meant to invoke an atmosphere of chaos and disorder.
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** The Music/ThomasDolby collaboration "Field Work" features a bombastic, funk-leaning "London Mix" handled by Dolby, a minimalist, electro-tinged "Tokyo Mix" handled by Sakamoto, and extended versions of both.
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* UpdatedRerelease: The 1990 CD of "The Arrangement" added the A and B-sides of two singles released shortly before the EP (and consequently making it as long as a proper studio album), these being "War Head"/"Lexington Queen" and "Front Line"/"Happy End". The bonus tracks are removed on the 2015 CD.
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* UpdatedRerelease: The 1990 CD of "The Arrangement" added the A and B-sides of two singles released shortly before the EP (and consequently making it as long as a proper studio album), these being "War Head"/"Lexington Queen" and "Front Line"/"Happy End". A later reissue three years later further added on all four mixes of "Field Work" and both mixes of "Steppin' Into Asia". The bonus tracks are removed on the 2015 CD.
