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Listen to Opus: Watch the film Ryuichi Sakamoto, Opus on Criterion Channel A celebration of an artists life in the purest sense, RYUICHI SAKAMOTO, OPUS is the swan song of one of the worlds greatest musicians. As a parting gift, in late 2022, Ryuichi Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave us with one final performance: a concert film featuring just him and his piano. Curated and sequenced by Sakamoto himself, the twenty pieces of his played in the film wordlessly tell the story of his life and his wideranging oeuvre. The selection spans his entire career, from his popstar period with Yellow Magic Orchestra and his magnificent scores for filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci and Nagisa Oshima to his meditative final album, 12. Intimately filmed in black and white, and surrounded by trusted collaboratorsincluding director Neo Sora, his sonSakamoto bares his soul through his exquisitely haunting me