So Coda started as something more political and maybe less centered on you? Yes, more political than artistic or musical.Īnd then the cancer diagnosis came sometime when you guys were filming? Yeah, a few years in.ĭid you ever think about not doing the documentary anymore? Of course.
#RYUICHI SAKAMOTO GLASSES MOVIE#
to compose Oscar-caliber movie scores observe the creation of his most personal album to date, the ambient record async, which wrestles with Sakamoto’s battle with stage III throat cancer at some point, show the clip when he gets kissed by David Bowie in a homoerotic movie about POW camps. Chart the four-decade career of a man who created some of the most foundational pop music of the ’80s in Japan’s Yellow Magic Orchestra follow his move to the U.S. Which is an odd prospect for a documentary, considering how much easier it would have been to do something linear. Much of Coda is like this-philosophical, often moving. Matter is struggling to return to a natural state.” He ponders the existence of the instrument, a thing made possible by the Industrial Revolution-wood molded into shape by machine, strings coiled through “the sum strength of civilization.” He explains: “We humans say falls out of tune. The second piano is the pristine Steinway in Sakamoto’s West Village apartment, where he composes most of his music. He says it feels like playing “the corpse of a piano that had drowned.” The instrument sounds off-kilter, haunted, still beautiful somehow. Sakamoto presses his fingers to its keys. The first: a grand Yamaha, warped by the tsunami that killed more than 1,600 people after the earthquake in Fukushima on March 11, 2011. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda is about Ryuichi Sakamoto, sure.
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