Ryuichi Sakamoto discography | |
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Studio albums | 19 |
Live albums | 6 |
Compilation albums | 6 |
Music videos | 5 |
EPs | 5 |
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||
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JP [1][2] | US Cla. [3] | |||||||||
1978 | Thousand Knives
| -- | -- | |||||||
1980 | B-2 Unit
| 19 | -- | |||||||
1981 | Left-Handed Dream
| 20 | -- | |||||||
1984 | Ongaku Zukan[A]
| 5 | -- | |||||||
1985 | Esperanto
| 9 | -- | |||||||
1986 | Futurista
| 5 | -- | |||||||
1987 | Neo Geo
| 8 | -- | |||||||
1989 | Beauty
| 14 | -- | |||||||
1991 | Heartbeat
| 6 | -- | |||||||
1994 | Sweet Revenge
| 7 | -- | |||||||
1995 | Smoochy
| 28 | -- | |||||||
1996 | 1996
| -- | -- | |||||||
1997 | Discord
| -- | -- | |||||||
1998 | BTTB
| 26 | -- | |||||||
2002 | Comica
| -- | -- | |||||||
2002 | Elephantism
| -- | -- | |||||||
2004 | Chasm
| 19 | -- | |||||||
2009 | Out of Noise
| 16 | -- | |||||||
2012 | Three
| 37 | -- | |||||||
2017 | async
| -- | 5 | |||||||
'—' denotes items which were not released in that country or failed to chart. |
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||
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JP [1][2] | US Cla.[3] | |||||||||
1986 | Media Bahn Live
| -- | -- | |||||||
1988 | Playing the Orchestra
| -- | -- | |||||||
1999 | Cinemage
| -- | -- | |||||||
2000 | Audio Life
| -- | -- | |||||||
2001 | In The Lobby: At G.E.H. in London
| -- | -- | |||||||
2009 | Playing the Piano
| 41 | 10 | |||||||
'—' denotes releases that did not chart. |
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||
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JP [1][2] | ||||||||||
1978 | Tokyo Joe (with Kazumi Watanabe)
| -- | ||||||||
1983 | Coda
| 38 | ||||||||
1994 | Soundbytes
| -- | ||||||||
2002 | Works I – CM
| -- | ||||||||
2003 | Moto.tronic
| -- | ||||||||
2004 | /04
| -- | ||||||||
2005 | /05
| 28 | ||||||||
2006 | Bricolages
| 81 | ||||||||
2015 | Year Book 2005–2014
| 46 | ||||||||
2016 | Year Book 1971-1979
| 77 | ||||||||
2017 | Year Book 1980-1984
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'—' denotes releases that did not chart. |
Year | Album details | Ref. |
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1997 | Music for Yohji Yamamoto: Collection, 1995
| [4] |
2001 | Zero Landmine (as part of N.M.L. No More Landmines)
| [5] |
Year | Video details | Ref. |
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1985 | TV War (with Radical TV)
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1986 | Adelic Penguins
| [6] |
2006 | Insen Live (as alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto)
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2008 | LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible… (as Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani)
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2015 | Playing the Orchestra 2014
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2015 | Trio Tour 2012 Japan
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Year | Title | Director(s) | Ref. |
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1983 | 'Forbidden Colours' (with David Sylvian) | ||
1985 | 'Field Work' (with Thomas Dolby) | Thomas Dolby | [7] |
1987 | 'Risky' (feat. Iggy Pop) | Meiert Avis | [8] |
1990 | 'You Do Me' (feat. Jill Jones) | ||
1992 | 'Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II)' (feat. David Sylvian and Ingrid Chavez) | Kevin Westenberg | [9] |
2003 | 'Trioon I' (as alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto) | Karl Kliem | [10] |
2013 | 'Psychedelic Afternoon' | Uruma Delvi | [11] |
2016 | 'The Revenant Main Theme (Alva Noto Edit)' | Alejandro González Iñárritu | [12] |
Year | Album | Notes | Ref. |
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1983 | Daijōbu, My Friend | ||
1983 | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | ||
1986 | The Adventures of Chatran: Original Soundtrack | ||
1987 | Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise | ||
1987 | The Last Emperor | ||
1989 | Fantasy of Light and Life | ||
1989 | Tengai Makyou: Ziria | [13] | |
1990 | The Sheltering Sky | ||
1990 | The Handmaid's Tale | ||
1992 | High Heels | ||
1992 | Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights | ||
1992 | Tokyo Decadence | ||
1993 | Peachboy | ||
1993 | Wild Palms | ||
1994 | Little Buddha | ||
1997 | The Other Side Of Love | Soundtrack for television series Stalker: Nigekirenu Ai | |
1998 | Snake Eyes | ||
1998 | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | ||
1999 | Gohatto | ||
1999 | Poppoya | Composed the main theme | |
2000 | L.O.L.: Lack of Love | Dreamcast video game for which Sakamoto was also the scenario writer | |
2002 | Femme Fatale | ||
2002 | Century of Reform | ||
2002 | Derrida | Certain tracks from the film were released on the compilation album Minha Vida Como Un Filme (2002) | |
2002 | Alexei and the Spring | Certain tracks from the film were released on the compilation album Minha Vida Como Un Filme (2002) | |
2004 | Seven Samurai 20XX | PlayStation 2 video game | |
2005 | Shining Boy & Little Randy | ||
2005 | Tony Takitani | ||
2006 | Dawn of Mana | PlayStation 2 video game | |
2007 | Silk | ||
2008 | Indigo | Short film | |
2009 | Women Without Men | ||
2011 | Dhobi Ghat | ||
2011 | Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai | ||
2012 | I Have to Buy New Shoes | With Kotringo | [14] |
2015 | Living With My Mother | Album released in 2016 under the alternative English title Nagasaki: Memories of My Son. | [15] |
2015 | The Revenant | With Alva Noto and additional music by Bryce Dessner | [16] |
2019 | Black Mirror: Smithereens |
Year | Song(s) | Album | Notes | Ref. |
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1989 | 'Laserman' | Black Rain soundtrack | [17] | |
1992 | 'El Mar Mediterrani' | El Mar Mediterrani | Composition for 1992 Summer Olympics opening ceremony officially released on the 1997 mini-album of the same name | [18] |
1998 | 'Dreamcast Startup' | Startup sound for the Dreamcast video game console | [19] | |
2003 | 'Chinsagu No Hana' | Japanese Story soundtrack | An alternate mix by Elizabeth Drake originally from Beauty | [20] |
2006 | 'Bibo No Aozora', 'Only Love Can Conquer Hate', 'World Citizen (I Won't Be Disappointed)' | Babel soundtrack | Alternate mixes originally from 1996 and Chasm | [21] |
Year | Album | Artist | Details | Ref. |
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1979 | Intimate | Keizo Inoue | Piano, synthesizer | |
Kylyn | Kazumi Watanabe | Co-producer, keyboards | ||
1980 | Gentlemen Take Polaroids | Japan | Co-writer ('Taking Islands in Africa') | |
1983 | Rose | Mari Iijima | Producer | |
1984 | Brilliant Trees | David Sylvian | Guest piano/synthesizers on three tracks | |
1985 | Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities | David Sylvian | Guest piano and strings on one track | |
Memory Theatre | Ayuo Takahashi | Guest musician | ||
1986 | Hope in a Darkened Heart | Virginia Astley | Producer | |
Venus Tanjō | Yukiko Okada | Co-writer ('Wonder Trip Lover', 'Kuchibiru Network', 'Nemurenu Yoru no AQUARIUS') | ||
Album | Public Image Ltd | Synthesizer ('Rise', 'Fishing', 'Bags', 'Ease') | ||
1987 | Secrets of the Beehive | David Sylvian | Arrangement, organ, synthesizer, piano | |
1989 | Safety in Numbers | David van Tieghem | Keyboards | |
1991 | Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses | Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses | Piano, backing vocals | |
1992 | Sahara Blue | Hector Zazou | Piano ('Ophelie', 'Hapolot Kenym', 'Harar et les Gallas') | |
1993 | Dreamland | Aztec Camera | Co-producer | |
1995 | The Geisha Girls Show | Geisha Girls | Producer | |
1996 | O Corpo Sutil | Arto Lindsay | Guest musician | |
Red Hot + Rio | Red Hot Organization | Keyboards ('É Preciso Perdoar (You Must Forgive)') | ||
1999 | Dead Bees on a Cake | David Sylvian | Arrangement, piano, guitar, bansuri, insects | |
2000 | Everything and Nothing | David Sylvian | Arrangement, piano | |
2003 | Strong Currents | Hector Zazou | Piano | |
2004 | Astromantic | M-Flo | Guest musician ('I Wanna Be Down') | |
Cinema | Rodrigo Leão | Guest musician | ||
2005 | Snow Borne Sorrow | Nine Horses | Piano ('Atom and Cell', 'Snow Borne Sorrow') | |
2006 | Yellow Fever! | Senor Coconut | Guest musician | |
2011 | Heligoland (Extended Edition) | Massive Attack | Co-remixer ('Fatalism') | |
2011 | Forgetfulness | Natalie Beridze TBA | Co-writer ('Blue Shadow') |
Sakamoto in 2013. | |
Born | January 17, 1952 (age 67) |
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Education | Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music |
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Years active | 1975–present |
Spouse(s) | |
Children | Miu Sakamoto |
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Website | sitesakamoto.com |
A sample of 'Riot in Lagos' from Ryuichi Sakamoto's 1980 album B-2 Unit. This track is credited for having anticipated the beats and sounds of electro music. | |
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