Talk:Ryuichi Sakamoto

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Does anyone happen to know if Sakamoto-san suffers from prognathism i.e. his lower jaw is more predominant than his upper?

Merely wondering as I watched Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence yesterday. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.37.200.166 (talk) 22:47, 8 July 2006 (UTC) --

the section on the appliance law is weird if you don't know that he's involved in lots of social activism. suggest changing the section to "Involvement in Social Issues" He's well-known for his political views in favor of the peace movement, and his promotion of environmental issues, including his recent efforts in support of the stop rokkasho campaign. also needs to link his blog. Bine maya 16:56, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

- Just a question... The album 'Babel' is linked to the page of the Babel movie, which soundtrack is from Gustavo Santaolalla. I think the link should be removed (or maybe I am missing something?) Botty - from it.wikibooks :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.222.63.210 (talk) 16:32, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Much of Babel's score is done by Gustavo Santaolalla, but Sakamoto scores, in part or wholly, three tracks on the album and for the movie. In fact, Santaolalla is pretty much credited with the entire score because his work was made originally for the film, while the other artist's pieces may have been made for other projects or albums and then compiled onto the album because they were in the film. Sakamoto's pieces are treated as a score in the movie however, so perhaps he deserves to have Babel listed as one of his albums. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jordinho (talk • contribs) 03:58, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Is anybody familiar with the Asience Commercial over in Japan which had Zhang Ziyi in it and had Ryuichi Sakamoto's song playing in the background? I believe that it first started playing on television in November of 2005. I would like to know the name of that song and if it's downloadable anywhere on line. Thanks.--InnerRise 01:00, 8 October 2007 --- http://www.j-wave.co.jp/original/radiosakamoto/ I just did a Ctrl+F on Talk and the Article, there's no mention of the radio show that Sakamoto hosts. I'm struggling to find sources, so someone could easily de-bunk this as someone of the same name. Just a thought that it certainly seems like relevent information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.163.176.231 (talk) 21:55, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Infobox Image
Im wondering what people's opinions are on the infobox image. Between the one currently in use and this one which do people prefer. The one used now is in color which can definately be seen as an advantage - however I think the cropping on it is a little strange in that it is very tight on the face with alott of negative space to either side. Also there is the issue of depicting the subject wearing glasses when he is not noted for doing so in a public capacity. Just cruious as to what the consensus is here - please contribute your opinion. Solid State Survivor (talk) 05:40, 9 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Presently there are 3 images of RS as older man and none as his playful young album art and appearances. Seems like a misrepresentation of a long career, no? --184.20.10.253 (talk) 00:28, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
 * If you can find available images for the 70s-80s-90s sections, you should add them. --GimmeChoco44 (talk) 09:33, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
 * With Wikipedia there's usually a reason (usually a dark reason) things are the way they are and if you try to change them you're wasting your time since your work will be promptly undone, so I leave you with this: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ryuichi+sakamoto&form=HDRSC2&first=1&cw=1372&ch=916 and godspeed. (Still it's worth pointing out the obvious so more can be keyed in. I've seen at least a hundred images of RS over the years. I don't know what the requirements are to use an image, so maybe you can't just slap any image up. He's not principally known as "old man Sakamoto" but FWIW his ja.wikipedia page is the same, but different images except for one. Its images are better.) --184.20.10.253 (talk) 23:07, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Commmons
I suggest to separate the section Commmons into a new article. RafaelPPascual (talk) 11:01, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Serge Gainsbourg of Japan (demands better connectivity)
Someone needs to setup proper connectivity for Mr. Sakamoto's work like YMO has on his page only for his solo/collaborative work. Individual albums etc need cross linking. His Japanese album pages (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8D%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%82%AA) seem to be linked up. But he doesn't have a navbox for his own stuff on his own page (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9D%82%E6%9C%AC%E9%BE%8D%E4%B8%80) so it would probably be a unique undertaking. His non-YMO work is definitely not less notable or anything. --12.213.80.36 (talk) 04:58, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Manga Impact
Manga Impact: The World of Japanese Animation, 6 December 2010, ISBN 978-0714857411; pg 206;

In 1987, noted pianist Sakamoto Ryuichi, following a series of prestigious partnerships with artists and performers such as David Sylvian, David Byrne, Nam June Paik and Iggy Pop, wrote the original music for two films: Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor and The Wings of Honneamise by Yamaga Hiroyuki. For the first of these, he won an Academy Award, paving the way for mainstream recognition of his film music, while the second failed to live up to box-office expectations. The lack of popular response to the complex Wings of Honneamise perhaps goes some way towards explaining why it continues to remain the celebrated Japanese composer's sole contact with animation thus far; his refined and elusive scores are a poor match for the commercial soul of the animated film. Nonetheless, Sakamoto's syncretism and eclectic style have made him an enormously successful composer for film and the score he wrote for Honneamise (along with Nomi Yuji and Ueno Koji) is an excellent example of his work. Mixing very different sounds and melodies (accentuating Oriental tradition with electronic material), Sakamoto creates a sonic world that echoes the visual universe imagined by Yamaga: Oriental in character, but clearly influenced by the Soviet Union an the USA. If the film is conceived as a sort of farewell to the Cold War, the music underlines its melancholy tone and the existential despondency inherent in its leading character, the astronaut Shirotsugu. Developing a limited number of melodic ideas and featuring several superbly-paced episodes, the music occasionally recalls Blade Runner (1982, dir. Ridley Scott), from which Sakamoto quoted passages. The soundtrack is a fascinating one-off experiment, a creative model in music, which ends up enriching and deepening every shot. C.C. [Carlo Chatrian]

--Gwern (contribs) 19:49 23 December 2011 (GMT)

Beginnings
In 1975, Sakamoto released an album with Toshiyuki Tsuchitori entitled Disappointment-Hateruma which is not mentioned in the article.--Ilovetopaint (talk) 15:02, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

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The career box on the bottom used to have twice as much or more information
I mean, I think it's useful even if there aren't links for everything? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Ryuichi_Sakamoto&oldid=891427920 --184.20.10.253 (talk) 23:39, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Same speaker... for the record ja.wikipedia's is complete (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:坂本龍一) more like the deleted version's. EDITED: I reverted the deletion change since the user who did it marked their page as "retired" but I think that the missing pages should be red-links (they once were) so that it's easier to read. --184.20.10.253 (talk) 23:25, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Unclear provenance of 1987 MTV VMA award claim for "Risky"
I've done an hour or so of research and I have no idea where the section referencing a VMA Breakthrough Video award for "Risky" in 1987 is getting that information - it's not listed on Meiert Avis's IMDB page or on award sites for the 1987 or 1988 VMA nominees/winners. Strangely, that claim is actually made on Meiert Avis's personal website, but it makes absolutely no sense - there are a discrete number of categories and nominees, and only one winner. But then again the MTV Breakthrough wikipedia doesn't cite any sources, and of course MTV doesn't just provide a list of nominees and awards for these old shows.

That whole paragraph (under the Awards subcategory) is copied and pasted from some other site which is also of unclear provenance - I wasn't able to find the original source.

EDIT: I think this is the original edit that introduced this paragraph, in 2008? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ryuichi_Sakamoto&oldid=193643255 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Muddiebuddie (talk • contribs) 00:11, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Agree. I found this website, doesn't seems a valid RS source, but also list INXS as the winner of the first award. I have added a dubious template pointing at this talk page section to discuss it. Alexcalamaro (talk) 19:11, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Missing Soundtrack Mention
He composed the sountrack for the original 1990 film of Margaret At woods book The Hand makers Tale. 47.192.215.59 (talk) 17:18, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Mister Sakamoto has died.
March 28th, 2023, as per his official social media accounts. https://twitter.com/ryuichisakamoto/status/1642507238467309568 VariousDeliciousCheeses (talk) 12:57, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Missing mentions about his work with Taeko Onuki
Ryuichi Sakamoto did the arrangement for Sunshower and it does appear in the page of the album, but not here. I also checked Onuki's main page and there seems to be another album he contributed to that isn't noted here.

I've never done more than minor edits (only one on this acc), so if someone with more experience can add these to the page, it'd be great. Also there's probably more missing, I just found this randomly. Sodium Slug (talk) 15:20, 4 June 2023 (UTC)