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Musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who won an Academy Award and has worked on both live-action and anime projects, passed away in spring 2023. Now the Venice Film Festival will debut a documentary movie titled Opus that showcases his very last performance. Opus will have …Read more »
Musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who has spoken publicly about battling cancer, has passed away at age 71. Last summer he said he had stage IV cancer. He wrote a series of articles called “How Many More Times Will I See the Full Moon?” to …Read more »
Oscar and Grammy-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto announced that he has been diagnosed with stage IV cancer. Sakamoto has previously talked about his fights against cancer. In 2014, he was diagnosed with throat cancer. Then, in 2021, he was diagnosed with rectal cancer. Stage IV cancer …Read more »
Academy Award-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto shared news in English and Japanese that he has been diagnosed with rectal cancer. “I was relieved after the throat cancer that I had in 2014 went into remission after six years,” he wrote. “However, unfortunately, I have been diagnosed …Read more »
In July of last year, world-renowned musician Ryuichi Sakamoto was diagnosed with mesopharyngeal carcinoma . He had to cancel all of his ongoing work to undergo cancer treatment, including a position as both director and performer at the 2014 Sapporo International Arts Festival. Sakamoto's fame …Read more »
Bad news for any fans of the Japanese music scene: according to a statement released by record company Avex yesterday, Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder and prominent composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has been diagnosed with throat cancer. YMO is one of the most influential bands of the …Read more »
March 11th saw the second anniversary of the Great Tohoku Earthquake, the 9.0 magnitude quake that caused a devastating tsunami and nuclear accident in northern Japan. To help with the continuing charity and aid effort in the region, two anime-related shorts were released on the …Read more »
There is sad news coming out of Japan as we learn that musician Yukihiro Takahashi has passed away. He died on January 11, at the age of 70, from aspiration pneumonia because of a brain tumor. Among other things, he was the lead vocalist and …Read more »
With the recent digital release of a bunch of composer Hiroyuki Sawano’s amazing anime soundtracks—including a physical vinyl release for his music that fueled TRIGGER’s unforgettable PROMARE anime film—we got a chance to speak with the artist about what composing for anime is really like. …Read more »
My Tyrano (also known as Sayonara Tyrano or even Hello Tyrano, depending on who you ask) is an animated co-production that combines the forces of Japan, China and South Korea to adapt a series of dinosaur-themed books by Tatsuya Miyanishi. Tyrano, which is set to …Read more »
In these troubled times, let us take solace in the fact that for a few moments, we can kick back with some footage of Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno sipping on a Sapporo. The 58-year-old director, who has also helmed projects like Gunbuster, Nadia and Shin …Read more »
Sad news for Japanese film fans. It’s been reported today that legendary actor Bunta Sugawara has died from liver cancer at the age of 81. Bunta Sugawara was most famous for starring in Battles Without Honor and Humanity , a series of films about yakuza …Read more »
When the first part of this latest Ghost in the Shell reboot was released in the summer, it left the series with a lot to improve on. Happily parading the visual tropes of the series, it unfortunately forgot to actually add any substance of its …Read more »
Originally formed in 1975 by Blues Interactions as a label re-issuing blues and R&B acts, P-Vine Records specializes in the art of the rerelease. In 1999 they put together an amazing collection of early 80s synth pop and electro new-wave called Techno Ca-Yo . The …Read more »
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