Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017)

Original title

Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA

Directed by

Stephen Nomura Schible

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States, Japan

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 57 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows composer Ryuichi Sakamoto as he creates music while battling throat cancer. It also shows his activism after the Fukushima disaster and how he finds inspiration in everyday sounds.

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What happens

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda is a 2017 documentary film directed by Stephen Nomura Schible. The film chronicles the life and career of Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and covers his experiences surviving cancer, his environmental activism following the Fukushima disaster, and his musical inspirations, including his interest in ambient sounds and film scoring. Schible became interested in Sakamoto when his artistic style shifted following the 2011 Japanese earthquake. The documentary was shot over a five-year span, starting in the summer of 2012. Sakamoto was diagnosed and treated for stage 3 throat cancer during filming, and the documentary was largely shot during Sakamoto's work on the score to Alejandro G. Inarritu's The Revenant. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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