TOKYO — Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Oscar\u002Dwinning Japanese composer famed for his scores for “The Last Emperor,” “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” and other epic films,…
“Asian music heavily influenced Debussy, and Debussy heavily influenced me. So the music goes around the world and comes full circle,” he told WNYC public radio in 2010.
Sakamoto’s first score was for the 1983 film “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence,” in which he also played the commandant of a prisoner of war camp, starring alongside David Bowie. The score went on to win a BAFTA. Sakamoto, who was an anti-nuclear campaigner and environmental activist, took a break from work in 2014 for about a year to be treated for throat cancer. Though cured of that after years of treatment, he announced on his website in January 2021 that he had been diagnosed with rectal cancer.
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