The post Kraftwerk Pay Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto with Cover of “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” in Japan: Watch appeared first on Consequence. Before beginning the song, Kraftwerk’s Ralf Hütter ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Oscar-winning Japanese composer famed for his scores for The Last Emperor, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and other films, has died aged 71. Ryuichi Sakamoto died March 28, his ...

Back in 1983, Ryuichi Sakamoto composed the award-winning score for the Nagisa Ôshima-directed film Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, capturing one of the Japanese musical hero's finest moments. More than ...

Kraftwerk played Japan’s Fuji Rock festival on Saturday, and in the midst of iconic electropop singles “The Man-Machine,” “Autobahn,” “Tour de France,” “Computer World,” “The Model,” “Trans-Europe ...

The musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who has died aged 71 of cancer, spent his life as a restless traveller, personally and musically. “I was born in Japan but I don’t think I’m Japanese,” he said in 1988, ...

Kraftwerk have honoured the late Ryuichi Sakamoto with a cover performance of his famous 1983 track ‘Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence’. The group performed a tribute over the weekend at Fuji Rock Festival ...

The estate of legendary Japanese composer joins the likes of Björk, Massive Attack and Fontaines D.C. in the boycott ...

There’s a league of musicians whose deaths have felt particularly earth-shattering, because of a naïve, but widely shared, presumption that they would simply live on forever. That pantheon includes – ...

Christopher Nolan named a "real gem" of a war film starring David Bowie among his favourite movies. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) is set in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during World War 2 ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto, who has died aged 71, co-founded the pioneering Japanese electronic-music trio Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) and composed the score for the Japanese prisoner-of-war film Merry ...

Last year, Ryuichi Sakamoto tragically passed away at age 71. Before his death, Fennesz, David Sylvian, Dev Hynes, Cornelius, and more contributed to a tribute album for the legendary Japanese ...