Sound
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Born 1952-01-17
Tokyo, Japan
Department: Sound
Biography
Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一, Sakamoto Ryūichi, January 17, 1952 - March 28, 2023) was a Japanese composer, record producer, and actor who had pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres.
Known For
Prominent works featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto
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The Revenant
2015
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Black Mirror
2011
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Babel
2006
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The Last Emperor
1987
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Snake Eyes
1998
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Monster
2023
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Beckett
2021
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Femme Fatale
2002
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After Yang
2022
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (168 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Sekiro: No Defeat | Theme Song Performance | Movie | 2026 |
 | A Flower of Forgetfulness | Compositor | Movie | 2026 |
 | Zi | In Memory Of | Movie | 2026 |
 | Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2025 |
 | Flames of a Flower | Theme Song Performance | Movie | 2025 |
 | Sons of the Neon Night | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2025 |
 | Frammenti | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2025 |
 | Ryuichi Sakamoto | Playing the Orchestra 2014 | Self | Movie | 2025 |
 | Black Ox | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2024 |
 | Kraftwerk - Fuji Rock Festival 2024 | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2024 |
 | Tonovan Musician Kazuhiko Kato and His Era | Self | Movie | 2024 |
 | Ryuichi Sakamoto's Last Days | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2024 |
 | Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus | Self | Movie | 2023 |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus | Music | Movie | 2023 |
 | SUGA: Road to D-DAY | Self | Movie | 2023 |
 | Monster | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2023 |
 | Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2023 |
| Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV | Music | Movie | 2023 |
 | Stalingrad - Stimmen aus Ruinen | Music | Movie | 2023 |
 | Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 2022 | Himself | Movie | 2022 |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 2022 | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2022 |
 | exception | Music Producer | TV Series | 2022 |
| exception | Music Arranger | TV Series | 2022 |
| exception | Original Music Composer | TV Series | 2022 |
 | Piano Cinéma | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2022 |
 | After Yang | Main Title Theme Composer | Movie | 2022 |
 | Love After Love | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2021 |
 | Moskau 1941 - Stimmen am Abgrund | Music | Movie | 2021 |
 | Beckett | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2021 |
 | Brilliant Trees Sessions | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2021 |
 | Apausalypse | Music | Movie | 2021 |
 | NHK MUSIC SPECIAL | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2021 |
 | Incomplete | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2020 |
| Incomplete | Director | Movie | 2020 |
 | Ryuichi Sakamoto: Improvisation for Sonic Cure | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2020 |
 | OKINA: Dance of Life | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2020 |
 | Adult Baby | Musician | Movie | 2020 |
 | Ryuichi Sakamoto Playing the Piano for the Isolated | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2020 |
 | Minamata | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2020 |
 | Proxima | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2019 |
 | No Smoking | Self | Movie | 2019 |
 | Agniyogana | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2019 |
 | My Tyrano: Together, Forever | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2019 |
 | Paradise Next | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2019 |
 | The Staggering Girl | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2019 |
 | Your Face | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2018 |
 | Ryuichi Sakamoto: async at the Park Avenue Armory | Self | Movie | 2018 |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto: async at the Park Avenue Armory | Music | Movie | 2018 |
 | A Gentle Glow | Music | Movie | 2017 |
 | Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA | Self | Movie | 2017 |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2017 |
 | The Fortress | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2017 |
 | Fullmoon | Music | Movie | 2017 |
 | Star Sand | Music | Movie | 2017 |
 | Haiku On A Plum Tree | Music | Movie | 2017 |
 | async - first light | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2017 |
 | Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto: The Glass House | Self | Movie | 2016 |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto: The Glass House | Music | Movie | 2016 |
 | Rage | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2016 |
| Rage | Theme Song Performance | Movie | 2016 |
 | Thirteen Talks | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2016 |
 | The Ferryman | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2016 |
 | The Revenant | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2015 |
 | Nagasaki: Memories of My Son | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2015 |
 | Ryuichi Sakamoto | Trio Tour 2012 | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2015 |
 | 700 Days with Ryuichi Sakamoto | Self | Movie | 2015 |
 | Nuclear Nation II | Theme Song Performance | Movie | 2014 |
 | Psychedelic Afternoon | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2013 |
 | Yae's Sakura | Theme Song Performance | TV Series | 2013 |
 | I Have to Buy New Shoes | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2012 |
| I Have to Buy New Shoes | Music Supervisor | Movie | 2012 |
 | Future Past Perfect Pt. 02 (Cité Radieuse) | Music | Movie | 2012 |
 | Yellow Magic Orchestra - YMONHK | Self | Movie | 2012 |
 | Light Up Nippon | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2012 |
 | Nuclear Nation | Theme Song Performance | Movie | 2012 |
 | Black Mirror | Original Music Composer | TV Series | 2011 |
 | Utau Live in Tokyo 2010 - A Project of Taeko Onuki & Ryuichi Sakamoto | Music | Movie | 2011 |
 | Tripitaka Koreana Special ‘Dharma’ | Music | Movie | 2011 |
 | Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2011 |
 | Dhobi Ghat | Songs | Movie | 2010 |
| Burning Ice | Self | Movie | 2010 | |
 | POSTYMO / Yellow Magic Orchestra | himself | Movie | 2009 |
 | Women Without Men | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2009 |
 | Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist | Self | Movie | 2009 |
 | Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto with Ensemble Modern: utp_ | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2008 |
| Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto with Ensemble Modern: utp_ | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2008 |
 | Silk | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2007 |
| 100年インタビュー | ゲスト | TV Series | 2007 | |
 | Babel | Songs | Movie | 2006 |
 | Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto: Insen Live | Self | Movie | 2006 |
| Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto: Insen Live | Musical | Movie | 2006 |
 | Zarin | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2005 |
 | Shining Boy & Little Randy | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2005 |
 | Tony Takitani | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2004 |
 | Appleseed | Music | Movie | 2004 |
 | The Blonds | Music | Movie | 2003 |
 | Life Is Journey | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2003 |
 | Femme Fatale: Dream Within a Dream | Self | Movie | 2003 |
 | VisualYMO:the Best | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2003 |
 | Miki Nakatani: AIR POCKET | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2002 |
 | My Daughter | Sound | Movie | 2002 |
 | Femme Fatale | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2002 |
 | Derrida | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2002 |
 | Alexei and the Spring | Original Music Composer | Movie | 2002 |
 | To the Backstreet: The Films Kenji Nakagami Left Out | Music | Movie | 2001 |
 | Miki Nakatani: BROKEN HEART | Sound | Movie | 2000 |
 | Ryuichi Sakamoto Trio World Tour 1996 - Complete Version | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2000 |
 | Taboo | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1999 |
 | Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 | Director (segment "Rain") | Movie | 1999 |
 | Complete Hurrah | Self | Movie | 1999 |
 | New Rose Hotel | Hosaka Executive | Movie | 1999 |
 | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1998 |
 | Snake Eyes | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1998 |
 | Jounetsu Tairiku | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1998 |
 | Wild Side | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1996 |
 | TV-YMO | Self | Movie | 1993 |
 | Little Buddha | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1993 |
 | YMO – Live At Budokan 1980 | self | Movie | 1993 |
 | Technodon in Tokyo Dome | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1993 |
 | Wild Palms | Original Music Composer | TV Series | 1993 |
 | Today's Close-Up | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1993 |
 | Wuthering Heights | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1992 |
 | Hurrah: Yellow Magic Orchestra | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1992 |
 | Barcelona '92 Olympic Games Inauguration Ceremony | Self | Movie | 1992 |
 | Tokyo Decadence | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1992 |
 | YMO – Hi-Tech Video Crime | Self | Movie | 1992 |
 | Marisa Monte: Mais | Self | Movie | 1991 |
 | High Heels | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1991 |
 | Peachboy | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1991 |
 | The Sheltering Sky | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1990 |
 | Infinite Escher | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1990 |
 | The Handmaid's Tale | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1990 |
 | NHK Special | Self | TV Series | 1989 |
 | SAKAMOTO PLAYS SAKAMOTO | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1988 |
| NEO GEO ～1987.7.19 NHKホール～ | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1987 | |
 | The Last Emperor | Amakasu | Movie | 1987 |
| The Last Emperor | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1987 |
| Brand New Day | Self | Movie | 1987 | |
 | Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1987 |
 | Bye Bye Kipling | Self | Movie | 1986 |
 | The Adventures of Milo and Otis | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1986 |
 | Ryuichi Sakamoto – Media Bahn Live | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1986 |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto – Media Bahn Live | Producer | Movie | 1986 |
 | Adelic Penguins | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1986 |
| Adelic Penguins | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1986 |
 | TV WAR | Self | Movie | 1986 |
| TV WAR | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1986 |
 | On the Beach | Music Arranger | Movie | 1985 |
| Steel Cathedrals | Self - Piano/strings | Movie | 1985 | |
 | Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto | Self | Movie | 1985 |
| Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1985 |
 | All Star Video | Self | Movie | 1985 |
| All Star Video | Director | Movie | 1985 |
| All Star Video | Music | Movie | 1985 |
 | A Human Tube | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1985 |
| Preparations For A Journey | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1984 | |
 | A Y.M.O. Film: Propaganda | Self | Movie | 1984 |
 | The Oshima Gang | Self | Movie | 1983 |
 | YMO JAPAN TOUR at Nippon Budokan | Self - Keyboards | Movie | 1983 |
| YMO JAPAN TOUR at Nippon Budokan | Music | Movie | 1983 |
 | Where the Toys Come From | Music Arranger | Movie | 1983 |
 | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Yonoi | Movie | 1983 |
| Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1983 |
 | YMO: Winter Live '81 | Self | Movie | 1983 |
| YMO: Winter Live '81 | Music | Movie | 1983 |
 | It's All Right, My Friend | Original Music Composer | Movie | 1983 |
 | Yellow Magic Orchestra - Winter Live 1981 | Self | Movie | 1981 |
 | Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis | Self (archive footage) | Movie | — |