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Ryūichi Yamamoto (山本 龍一, Yamamoto Ryūichi, born May 8, 1984), known by his shikona Yamamotoyama Ryūta (山本山 龍太), or simply Yama, [1] is a Japanese retired sumo wrestler from the city of Saitama in Saitama Prefecture. He made his professional debut in January 2007, and reached the top makuuchi division in January 2009.
Ryuichi Sakamoto (Japanese: 坂本 龍一 [a], Hepburn: Sakamoto Ryūichi, January 17, 1952 – March 28, 2023) was a Japanese composer, keyboardist, record producer and actor. He pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the synth -based band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO).
This erotic R-rated thriller is notable for a Hong Kong film on general release in featuring frequent female full-frontal nudity, and is particularly notable for a scene of brief full-frontal male nudity (of Hong Kong Chinese actor Chung Lin, playing the robot version of Japanese scientist Ryuichi Yamamoto), as it is perhaps the first time in ...
The Grammy Award-winning electronic music star, who also won an Oscar and Bafta for his film work, was diagnosed with cancer for a second time in 2021. The music star, who was inpsired by Debussy ...
Ryuichi Sakamoto, an original member of groundbreaking Japanese group Yellow Magic Orchestra who later enjoyed international acclaim as a Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer, has died at the age of ...
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Pioneering Electronic Musician and Oscar Winner for ‘Last Emperor’ Score, Dies at 71 A.D. Amorosi and Pat Saperstein April 2, 2023 at 10:19 AM
Yellow Magic Orchestra and Ryuichi Sakamoto's Thousand Knives were one of the earliest popular music albums to utilize the Roland MC-8 Microcomposer, which was programmed by Hideki Matsutake during recording sessions. [21] [23] Roland called the MC-8 a "computer music composer" and it was the first stand-alone microprocessor-based music sequencer.
A prolific solo artist and composer who worked with musicians from Bowie to Madonna, Sakamoto refused to stay within the confines of one genre