RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS / Concert Documentary / 2023
A celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus is the swan song of one of the world’s greatest musicians. As a parting gift, in late 2022 Ryuichi Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave us with one final performance: a concert film featuring just him and his piano. Curated and sequenced by Sakamoto himself, the twenty pieces of his played in the film wordlessly tell the story of his life and his wide-ranging oeuvre. The selection spans his entire career, from his pop-star period with Yellow Magic Orchestra and his magnificent scores for filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci to his meditative final album, 12. Intimately filmed in a space he knew well and surrounded by his most trusted collaborators, Sakamoto bares his soul through his exquisitely haunting melodies, knowing this was the last time he would be able to present his art.
starring RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
directed by NEO SORA
cinematographer BILL KIRSTEIN
editor TAKUYA KAWAKAMI
producers NORIKA SORA, ALBERT THOLEN, AIKO MASUBUCHI, ERIC NYARI
executive producer JEREMY THOMAS
international sales by FILM CONSTELLATION
Distributors
Janus Films (US), Bitters End (Japan), JL Film (China), Media Castle (South Korea), Modern Films (UK), Cai Chang (Taiwan), among other
Select Festivals
Venice Film Festival 2023
New York Film Festival 2023
BFI London Film Festival 2023
Camerimage 2023
AFI Fest 2023
Press
New York Times Review - Critics’ Pick