Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017) on Netflix
NR20171h 40mDocumentaryMusic
Ryuichi Sakamoto, a Japanese composer, returns to music after a cancer diagnosis. The film follows his techno-pop years and film scores and his gathering of ambient sounds.
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- Netflix4.4/5
- IMDb7.6/102,385 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes98%
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Ryuichi Sakamoto has spent decades moving between pop music and film scoring, from his techno-pop years to an Oscar-winning score. The documentary was shot over five years, beginning in the summer of 2012, after a shift in his artistic style. Following the 2011 earthquake and the nuclear accident at Fukushima, he became a prominent figure in Japan's movement against nuclear power. During the shoot he is diagnosed with stage 3 throat cancer and undergoes treatment. Much of the filming happens while he works on the score for a feature, and the camera watches him collect ambient and natural sounds and set them beside man-made ones.
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- Ryuichi Sakamoto was diagnosed and treated for stage 3 throat cancer while the documentary was being filmed, which spanned five years from the summer of 2012 and largely happened while he was scoring Alejandro G. Inarritu's The Revenant.
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