Ryuichi Sakamoto was a composer, producer, and artist born in Tokyo. His diverse résumé includes pioneering electronic works in the legendary techno group Yellow Magic Orchestra, producing pop albums and numerous classical compositions, two operas, and nearly 45 original film/TV scores for directors, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Pedro Almodóvar, Brian De Palma, and Alejandro González Iñárritu.
His film soundtracks have won prestigious awards, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, and many more. Sakamoto also made considerable contributions to the art world with both solo and collaborative installations and multi-piece exhibitions presented in galleries and museums worldwide.

On January 17th, 2023, his 71st birthday, Ryuichi released "12", his 15th solo album. The new album is a collection of 12 songs selected from musical sketches Sakamoto recorded like a sound diary during his two-and-a-half-year battle with cancer.
In the years leading up to his death, Sakamoto could no longer perform live. Single concerts, not to mention sprawling global tours, were too taxing. Despite this, in late 2022, Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave the world with one final performance: a concert film featuring just him and his piano.
A celebration of an artist's life in the purest sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus is the definitive swan song of the beloved maestro.

Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away in March 2023 at the age of 71.
In memory of Ryuichi, his family and friends launched TREES FOR SAKAMOTO, a tree planting initiative to enable fans to donate to planting trees in various regions simply and transparently.

Born in 1963, Shiro Takatani studied environmental design at Kyoto City University of Arts. He joined the artist collective Dumb Type in 1984 as one of the founding members. In 1998, he began individual activities in parallel with Dumb Type. He created his own performance La Chambre Claire (premiered in 2008, Theater der Welt, Germany), CHROMA (premiered in 2012, Biwako Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Shiga) and ST/LL (Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto and others/Premiered in 2015, Le Volcan – Scène Nationale du Havre, France). His works have been presented, among others, at the National Theater & Concert Hall Taipei, Festival de Marseille, Singapore International Festival of Arts, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. In 2022, Dumb Type created a new installation 2022 for the Japan Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, welcoming Ryuichi Sakamoto as a new member. “Japan Pavilion Exhibition in Tokyo—From the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia | Dumb Type, 2022: remap” was held at the Artizon Museum in Tokyo in 2023

Born in 1945, Min Tanaka studied classical ballet and modern dance in 1966. He began pursuing his own form of dance and physical expression in 1974. His overseas debut was at Time-Space of Japan—MA exhibition at the Paris Autumn Festival (Louvre Museum of Decorative Arts) in 1978. His performances, infinitesimal and extremely gradual movements to unearth the potentials of the body, transcended dance and made an impact as a new form of artistic expression. From 1985 to the present, he has pursued a deeper physicality by moving to a mountain village and leading an agrarian life. Since his first appearance in the film The Twilight Samurai (Directed by Yoji Yamada, 2002), he has expanded his scope of activities by appearing and exhibiting his unique presence and distinctive acting ability in many films. He is the author of Bokuwa Zutto Hadakadatta and co-author of Ishindenshin. He also published photo books Last Movement: Itaru Hirama/Min Tanaka, Min Tanaka—Between Mountain and Sea: Photography by Masato Okada, and Photosynthesis MIN by Keiichi TAHARA. In 2022, his full-scale feature-length documentary film The Unnameable Dance was released (Directed by Isshin Inudo).
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Mayumi Miyata is the leading exponent internationally of the traditional oriental instrument, SHO. She actively pursues the diverse potential of the SHO both in classical gagaku and contemporary music, in collaboration with orchestras. After graduating from the Kunitachi College of Music with a degree in piano, she studied gagaku (ancient Japanese court music) and has participated in gagaku performances at the National Theatre of Japan since 1979. She has performed classical gagaku works and contemporary works by Toru Takemitsu, John Cage, Helmut Lachenmann, and Toshio Hosokawa with the Saito Kinen Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa; the NHK Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit; the New York Philharmonic under Andre Previn; the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy; the Royal Opera Orchestra of Belgium conducted by Kazushi Ohno; the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Nott; the Orchestre National de Lyon conducted by Quasi-Merkle; the Munich Chamber Orchestra conducted by Alexander Liebreich; the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra; the BBC Symphony Orchestra; and the WDR Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra.
In addition, she has participated in music festivals in Salzburg, Vienna Moderne, Lucerne, Schleswig-Holstein, Paris Autumn, Avignon, Darmstadt, Donaueschingen, and Tanglewood and has given recitals in Vienna, Paris, Amsterdam, Milan, and New York. Her performance of Kimigayo at the opening ceremony of the 1998 Nagano Olympics attracted worldwide attention. She received the Minister of Education’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists, the Avon Women of the Year Award for Art, the Kenzo Nakajima Award, the Yokohama Culture Award Encouragement Prize, the Japanese Traditional Culture Promotion Award, the Keizo Saji Award, the Matsuo Performing Arts Award for Excellence, Minister of Education’s Art Encouragement Prize, Medal with Purple Ribbon in the 2018 Autumn Medal, and the Japan Foundation Award for International Exchange for 2021

In 1994, she debuted in the music-image drama Hamlet: The Pale Cast of Thought, produced by NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster. In 1996, she performed with Hideo Kanze, a prominent Noh actor, in Min Tanaka’s stage production of A Thousand Years of Pleasure (Sennen no yuraku, the original story by Kenji Nakagami). In 2006, she began a full-fledged solo career, and her ongoing series of works The Showa Era—What’s the Weight of Its Body? with music by Keiji Haino and choreography by Min Tanaka, has become one of her major works. Her other key works include the open-air performance Stranger on August 15 and choreography for the music video of The Weeknd’s Belong To The World, in addition to films and TV dramas. She is Min Tanaka’s one and only “disciple” and concurrently his manager and producer navigating his projects together. She also participates in directorial aspects of his performances, such as joining his site-specific and improvisational dance project Locus Focus as a live sound operator