{"id":625532,"date":"2023-04-04T14:49:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T19:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/04\/composer-and-actor-ryuichi-sakamoto-has-died-at-the-age-of-71\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T14:49:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T19:49:11","slug":"composer-and-actor-ryuichi-sakamoto-has-died-at-the-age-of-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/04\/composer-and-actor-ryuichi-sakamoto-has-died-at-the-age-of-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Composer And Actor Ryuichi Sakamoto Has Died At The Age Of 71"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maestro Ryuichi Sakamoto poses during a photo call for the film “Coda” at the 74th Venice Film … [+]<\/span> Festival in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017. (AP Photo\/Domenico Stinellis)<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/fbs-accordion>Associated Press<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the finest composers in recent memory is arguably that of Ryuichi Sakamoto<\/a>. So it is with great sadness to hear that he has died at the age of 71.<\/p>\n

Initially announced via Twitter<\/a>, it was followed up by Yahoo News<\/a> in Japan giving more details. That he died on March 28 and had been battling with Stage 4 rectal cancer, which had since spread to both lungs.<\/p>\n

One of the founding members of Yellow Magic Orchestra<\/a>, Sakamoto would also go on to become a capable musical composer in his own right. Not to mention branching out into acting, opposite follow musician David Bowie in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence<\/em><\/a> (which he also wrote the score for).<\/p>\n

He also scored the hugely influential anime movie The Wings of Honneamise<\/em><\/a>, which is still widely regarded as a classic within the world of animation.<\/p>\n

However, it was his support for burgeoning musicians and their access to second-hand electronic instruments<\/a> that had a very wide impact in Japan. Not least because it also meant that much of Japanese gaming history was able to be preserved and not locked away by greedy rights holders.<\/p>\n

More recently Sakamoto composed the score for The Revenant<\/em><\/a>, but his declining health had been an issue in the years since.<\/p>\n

As always, my heart goes out to his friends and family at this time.<\/p>\n

Follow me on <\/em>Twitter<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Facebook<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>YouTube<\/em><\/a>. I also manage <\/em>Mecha Damashii<\/em><\/a> and do toy reviews over at <\/em>hobbylink.tv<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read my Forbes blog <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n Ollie Barder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maestro Ryuichi Sakamoto poses during a photo call for the film “Coda” at the 74th Venice Film … [+] Festival in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017. (AP Photo\/Domenico Stinellis)Associated Press One of the finest composers in recent memory is arguably that of Ryuichi Sakamoto. So it is with great sadness to hear that he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":625533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[602,25122],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-625532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-actor","8":"category-composer"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}