🎬 Movie

Ryuichi Sakamoto is submerged in the studio work for his album "Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia." The camera trails the composer through labyrinths of synthesizers, analog tapes, and sleepless nights, capturing a moment of pure creative inquiry. We witness not the public figure but the experimenter, fusing electronic pulses with silence, Western rhythms with Japanese contemplation. The film paints a portrait of an artist at a crossroads—between the pop fame of Yellow Magic Orchestra and future scores for "The Last Emperor." It is a chronicle not of a performance, but of a laboratory where a new musical language is being born.