Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda is a documentary as composed and improvisational as its subject. A film five years in the making, it follows the Oscar-winning composer and activist as he visits the Fukushima nuclear reactor following the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami, then through his 2014 diagnosis with stage three throat cancer, which initially left the direction of the documentary in uncertainty.
But Sakamoto responds to the various crises in his life with a swift matter-of-factness — this is just how things must be done. His bout with cancer was the longest he had ever gone without making music; just over a year after his diagnosis, he returned to work, this time on the score for Alejandro Iñárritu’s The Revenant. His approach,...
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