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<p class="ydp1cf221d3MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Dear KineJapaners,</span></p>
<p class="ydp1cf221d3MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial">I’m
pleased to see that an edited version of the Q&A with Ryuichi Sakamoto and director
Stephen Nomura Schible has gone up on the BFI website.</span></p>
<p class="ydp1cf221d3MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="https://www.bfi.org.uk/video-ryuichi-sakamoto-soundtracks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bfi.org.uk/video-ryuichi-sakamoto-soundtracks</a></span></p>
<p class="ydp1cf221d3MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial">It’s
27 minutes long and perhaps the first third is about the recent documentary,
then it goes more into Sakamoto’s music which, of course, often involved film.</span></p>
<p class="ydp1cf221d3MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial">I
was keen to catch this as I had to miss the event whilst I was in </span><span style="font-family:Arial">Bologna</span><span style="font-family:Arial">. The film, which I have seen during its release, covers
Sakamoto’s cancer diagnosis unflinchingly. The last part is mainly his reading
of J.S. Bach as ‘melancholy’. I don’t think Back wrote a note of melancholy
music but I can fully see how Sakamoto would want to read it that way. The film
eventually fades quietly to black, as if Nomura Schible thought it would be released
posthumously.</span></p>
<p class="ydp1cf221d3MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial">So
my initial interest in the interview was whether Sakamoto would use the Mark
Twain chestnut but, instead he asks Nomura Schible what film he would have
released if he had died.</span></p>
<p class="ydp1cf221d3MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial">Nomura
Schible’s use of Sakamoto’s son as his cinematographer is an interesting
dynamic.</span></p>
<p class="ydp1cf221d3MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial">Roger</span></p>
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