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‘Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus’ Director Neo Sora on Filming His Father’s Final Performance
'Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus' director Neo Sora discusses the challenges of filming his father's final performance.
Directed by Neo Sora, “ Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus” records the final performance of its namesake composer and musician prior to his death from cancer in March 2023. Yet Sora’s thoughtful practicality about the challenges of “Opus” belies the disposition of an artist perhaps unsurprisingly similar to Sakamoto, marrying a virtuoso control of technique and technology with intuitive inspiration for an end result that’s as powerful as it is precise. Obviously I have love for him and his music, but as soon as the filmmaking process started, I definitely feel the burden of making sure to have all the technical aspects correct, because it is a performance, especially in his physical condition, was something that we can only capture one time.
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