(2023, Giappone, 103')
Ryūichi Sakamoto has been one of the most meaningful composers of the twentieth century. An artist of a wide range of interests and of omnivore curiosity, Sakamoto authored legendary compositions for cinema: he worked with Bertolucci in “The Last Emperor” and “The Sheltering Sky”, and composed the score for “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”, just to name a few. Debilitated by sickness, in 2022 Sakamoto uses his last strength to compose the twenty pieces that accompany the film, selected to exemplify the stages of his diverse, visionary career. Ryūichi Sakamoto’s son, Neo Sora, directed this documentary under his father’s guidance as a testimony to a great artist who left an amazing spiritual legacy to future generations.
Neo Sora is a director, translator, and artist who lives and works between New York and Tokyo. Variety and Cahiers du Cinéma wrote of his work, and Filmmaker Magazine listed him as one of the twenty-five new faces of independent cinema. His video art installations have been displayed all over the world, from the 2019 Singapore Biennale to the 2019 Dojima River Biennale, to the Watari-um Museum of Contemporary Art and the Reborn-Art Festival of 2017.
