Ryuichi Sakamoto
Sound · Acting · Crew · Directing
Born January 17, 1952, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Filmography
- 2026A Flower of Forgetfulness — Compositor
- 2026Zi — In Memory Of
- 2025Sons of the Neon Night — Original Music Composer
- 2024Black Ox — Original Music Composer
- 2024Ryuichi Sakamoto's Last Days
- 2023Monster — Original Music Composer
- 2023Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV — Self (archive footage), Music
- 2023Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus — Self, Music
- 2023Stalingrad - Stimmen aus Ruinen — Music
- 2022After Yang — Main Title Theme Composer
- 2022Piano Cinéma — Original Music Composer
- 2022Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 2022 — Himself, Original Music Composer
- exception — Music Producer, Music Arranger, Original Music Composer
- 2021Apausalypse — Music
- 2021Beckett — Original Music Composer
- 2021Brilliant Trees Sessions
- 2021Love After Love — Original Music Composer
- 2021Moskau 1941 - Stimmen am Abgrund — Music
- NHK MUSIC SPECIAL
- 2020Adult Baby — Musician
- 2020Incomplete — Director, Original Music Composer
- 2020Minamata — Original Music Composer
- 2020OKINA: Dance of Life
- 2020Ryuichi Sakamoto Playing the Piano for the Isolated
- 2020Ryuichi Sakamoto: Improvisation for Sonic Cure
- 2019Agniyogana — Original Music Composer
- 2019My Tyrano: Together, Forever — Original Music Composer
- 2019Paradise Next — Original Music Composer
- 2019Proxima — Original Music Composer
- 2019The Staggering Girl — Original Music Composer
- 2018Ryuichi Sakamoto: async at the Park Avenue Armory — Self, Music
- 2018Your Face — Original Music Composer
- 2017A Gentle Glow — Music
- 2017Fullmoon — Music
- 2017Haiku On A Plum Tree — Music
- 2017Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA — Self, Original Music Composer
- 2017Star Sand — Music
- 2017The Fortress — Original Music Composer
- 2017async - first light — Original Music Composer
- 2016Rage — Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
- 2016Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto: The Glass House — Self, Music
- 2016The Ferryman — Original Music Composer
- Thirteen Talks
- 2015Nagasaki: Memories of My Son — Original Music Composer
- 2015Ryuichi Sakamoto | Trio Tour 2012
- 2015The Revenant — Original Music Composer
- 2014Nuclear Nation II — Theme Song Performance
- 2013Psychedelic Afternoon — Original Music Composer
- Yae's Sakura — Theme Song Performance
- 2012Future Past Perfect Pt. 02 (Cité Radieuse) — Music
- 2012I Have to Buy New Shoes — Original Music Composer, Music Supervisor
- 2012Light Up Nippon — Original Music Composer
- 2012Nuclear Nation — Theme Song Performance
- Black Mirror — Original Music Composer
- 2011Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai — Original Music Composer
- 2011Tripitaka Koreana Special ‘Dharma’ — Music
- 2011Utau Live in Tokyo 2010 - A Project of Taeko Onuki & Ryuichi Sakamoto — Music
- 2010Dhobi Ghat — Songs
- 2009Women Without Men — Original Music Composer
- 2008Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto with Ensemble Modern: utp_ — Original Music Composer
- 100年インタビュー — ゲスト
- 2007Silk — Original Music Composer
- 2006Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto: Insen Live — Self, Musical
- 2006Babel — Songs
- 2005Shining Boy & Little Randy — Original Music Composer
- 2005Zarin — Original Music Composer
- 2004Appleseed — Music
- 2004Tony Takitani — Original Music Composer
- 2003Life Is Journey — Original Music Composer
- 2003The Blonds — Music
- 2003VisualYMO:the Best
- 2002Alexei and the Spring — Original Music Composer
- 2002Derrida — Original Music Composer
- 2002Femme Fatale — Original Music Composer
- 2002Miki Nakatani: AIR POCKET — Original Music Composer
- 2002My Daughter — Sound
- 2001To the Backstreet: The Films Kenji Nakagami Left Out — Music
- 2000Miki Nakatani: BROKEN HEART — Sound
- 2000Ryuichi Sakamoto Trio World Tour 1996 - Complete Version
- 1999Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 — Director (segment "Rain")
- 1999New Rose Hotel — Hosaka Executive
- 1999Taboo — Original Music Composer
- Jounetsu Tairiku
- 1998Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon — Original Music Composer
- 1998Snake Eyes — Original Music Composer
- 1996Wild Side — Original Music Composer
- 1993Little Buddha — Original Music Composer
- 1993Technodon in Tokyo Dome
- Today's Close-Up
- Wild Palms — Original Music Composer
- 1992Hurrah: Yellow Magic Orchestra
- 1992Tokyo Decadence — Original Music Composer
- 1992Wuthering Heights — Original Music Composer
- 1991High Heels — Original Music Composer
- 1991Peachboy — Original Music Composer
- 1990Infinite Escher — Original Music Composer
- 1990The Handmaid's Tale — Original Music Composer
- 1990The Sheltering Sky — Original Music Composer
- 1988SAKAMOTO PLAYS SAKAMOTO
- 1987NEO GEO ～1987.7.19 NHKホール～
- 1987Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise — Original Music Composer
- 1987The Last Emperor — Amakasu, Original Music Composer
- 1986Adelic Penguins — Original Music Composer
- 1986Ryuichi Sakamoto – Media Bahn Live — Producer
- 1986TV WAR — Self, Original Music Composer
- 1986The Adventures of Milo and Otis — Original Music Composer
- 1985A Human Tube
- 1985All Star Video — Self, Director, Music
- 1985On the Beach — Music Arranger
- 1985Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto — Self, Original Music Composer
- 1984Preparations For A Journey
- 1983It's All Right, My Friend — Original Music Composer
- 1983Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence — Yonoi, Original Music Composer
- 1983Where the Toys Come From — Music Arranger
- 1983YMO JAPAN TOUR at Nippon Budokan — Self - Keyboards, Music
- 1983YMO: Winter Live '81 — Self, Music
Appearances as themselves (25)
- 2025Ryuichi Sakamoto | Playing the Orchestra 2014 — Self
- 2025Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries — Self (archive footage)
- 2024Tonovan Musician Kazuhiko Kato and His Era — Self
- 2023SUGA: Road to D-DAY — Self
- 2019No Smoking — Self
- 2015700 Days with Ryuichi Sakamoto — Self
- 2012Yellow Magic Orchestra - YMONHK — Self
- 2010Burning Ice — Self
- 2009Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist — Self
- 2009POSTYMO / Yellow Magic Orchestra — himself
- 2003Femme Fatale: Dream Within a Dream — Self
- 1999Complete Hurrah — Self
- 1993TV-YMO — Self
- 1993YMO – Live At Budokan 1980 — self
- 1992Barcelona '92 Olympic Games Inauguration Ceremony — Self
- 1992YMO – Hi-Tech Video Crime — Self
- 1991Marisa Monte: Mais — Self
- NHK Special — Self
- 1987Brand New Day — Self
- 1986Bye Bye Kipling — Self
- 1985Steel Cathedrals — Self - Piano/strings
- 1984A Y.M.O. Film: Propaganda — Self
- 1983The Oshima Gang — Self
- 1981Yellow Magic Orchestra - Winter Live 1981 — Self
- Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis — Self (archive footage)