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Last night, I suddenly saw the recent situation of Ryuichi Sakamoto, the old man with terminal cancer, and planned to hold a piano concert on December 11 this year, live broadcast worldwide, for the last time, as a farewell.
I'm ashamed that the first time I knew Ryuichi Sakamoto's name was last year.
At that time, I watched the famous movie "The Last Emperor", and several soundtracks in the movie deeply attracted me, and when I checked it, I found that there was such an arranger named Ryuichi Sakamoto, and since then I have been deeply immersed in the musical world he created.
Here, I would like to share a few songs composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, I hope you will like it.
First of all, I recommend the three songs composed by Mr. Ryuichi Sakamoto in "The Last Emperor":
《Where is Armo》
This song appears many times in "The Last Emperor", accompanied by music, the young Puyi chases his wet nurse, and the middle-aged Puyi chases his wife's graceful car. Puyi's life (in the movie) is a lost life, but the emperor has never been able to grasp what he needs, unable to keep his wet nurse, unable to keep his wife, and even unable to go to his birth mother's funeral in person... Following this song "Where is Armo", our hearts also run with Puyi when we were children, trying to catch up with what we have lost in our hearts.
《Open The Door》
Like the previous one, this song is also sympathetic to Puyi's suffering. Puyi's life was not free. Since he was a child, he was snatched from his birth mother and became the emperor, and since he was a child, he was restrained by ministers in the Forbidden City and was not allowed to go out, and his birth mother could not go out to comfort her when she died. As an adult, because of his ambition, he ran to find the Japanese as a backer, and as a puppet, he was even more unfree, and he could not walk out of the door closed by the Japanese. After his wife Wanrong was forcibly taken away by the Japanese, Puyi followed the car to the door, but stopped, and could only weakly say "Open the door".
Ryuichi Sakamoto uses the melody of the erhu in "Open The Door" to let us understand the unfree and imprisoned Puyi.
《Rain》
In the movie, Pu Yi has two wives, Wan Rong accompanied Pu Yi to Manchuria, and the other wife, Wenxiu, pursued freedom and took the initiative to divorce Pu Yi (unilaterally), and then accompanied by this hurried "Rain" quickly packed up in the rain and left Pu Yi forever.
This piece is extremely versatile, and you've definitely heard it.
The above are the soundtracks of the three "The Last Emperor", which are extremely excellent and very suitable for the movie, not only that, even if you have not seen the movie, it is very good to listen to it alone.
Ryuichi Sakamoto also has many good tunes, such as "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence", from the movie of the same name "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence", the Chinese name of the movie is called "Merry Christmas on the Battlefield", and the literal translation is "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence".
This song is also very good, and it belongs to the genre I said before that even if I haven't seen the movie, I will still feel good, because I haven't seen this movie, haha.
The film is an alternative war film, telling the story of captured soldiers in the Japanese prisoner of war camp, the actors have many big-name characters, Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Bowie Two excellent musicians from the East and West both starred in the movie, and also staged an emergency sadomasochism (same-sex), in which the young Takeshi Kitano also participated in a role with many roles as an actor. It's a good movie, although I haven't seen it...
Back to this song "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence", since I have never seen the movie but only listened to music, the author can't pull out a very emotional word, so please listen to it with your own ears and experience the musical talent of Mr. Ryuichi Sakamoto!
The old man has been fighting cancer, and December 11 may be his last concert, and I will go to the live broadcast whether it is charged or not.
Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto.