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"Ghost" from "Nagasaki: Memories Of My Son"
by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Listen: https://t.co/i2gTH3J5HG
Sakamoto's original motion picture soundtrack for director Yoji Yamada's film "Nagasaki: Memories Of My Son (2015)", starring longtime actor Sayuri Yoshinaga, portraying a mother whose son dies in the 1945 atomic bomb in Nagasaki and visits her as a ghost until she herself passes on.
The story is a tribute to an unfinished play by the writer Hisashi Inoue following his play about Hiroshima, "Chichi to Kuraseba." It was Ryuichi's first score since recovering from oropharyngeal cancer in 2014.
Director Yoji Yamada and Sayuri Yoshinaga's personal visit to Ryuichi, asking him to compose the music, led to the project.
Sakamoto and the Tokyo Philharmonic performed a wide variety of music per the director's wish for a performance filled with feelings of requiem for the victims of the war, including those of the atomic bomb.
"The score he created is masterfully emotional, to the point where you don't have to see the film to feel the gravity of its plot. But what makes "Nagasaki: Memories Of My Son" special is the way Sakamoto evokes deep feeling without easy sentiment or maudlin clichés. Though he employs many standard soundtrack tools — swelling strings, echoing piano, mournful woodwinds — he limits them to hushed tones and reserved tempos. This music unfolds slowly and quietly, suggesting that the proper way to process this story is meditative contemplation rather than rushed melodrama." - excerpted from an NPR review by Marc Masters.
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6月6日高橋幸宏さんお誕生日
細野晴臣が選曲した2022年公開の幸宏さん楽曲プレイリストです
This is a playlist of Yukihiro Takahashi's songs selected by Haruomi Hosono for his birthday, June 6.
🎧https://t.co/Ms2oI0Df1s
Please enjoy
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"async premium night"
https://t.co/B3bWowPE6a
The tickets will go on sale on 12/21 at noon (JST).
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Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani
Japan Premiere
TOKYO
3.28 | Thu.|-4.14 | Sun. I. 2024
New National Theatre. Tokvo. Plavhouse
KYOTO
4.27 | Sat. I- 4.28 | Sun. I. 2024
ROHM Theatre Kyoto, Main Hall
https://t.co/I9EMCM0JaL
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