Word: sakamoto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LAST EMPEROR (Virgin). Ryuicihi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su collaborate on a big, bold score for a big, bold movie...
...Japanese have largely shied away from takeovers of major U.S. industrial corporations, at least partly in fear of a public relations backlash. "We are worried about investment friction now. It may get serious," says Hiroki Sakamoto, a senior official of the Japan External Trade Organization. But last month Dainippon Ink & Chemicals won a long and bitter battle to take over New York's Reichhold Chemicals, a maker of specialty polymers. The price: $540 million...
...rock group Tangerine Dream. Two of Private Music's early releases are among the best New Age albums so far: Rock Violinist Jerry Goodman's high-flying On the Future of Aviation and the anthology Piano One, which features hypnotic solo performances by Jobson and Japan's Ryuichi Sakamoto, among others. "I like to ; describe the music as very visual," says the Berlin-born Baumann. "One important aspect is the absence of lyrics, which gives the listener a much wider range of associations...
...glory. The contenders were Mark Gorski, 24, ranked fifth in the world, and the stylish Nelson ("Cheetah") Vails, 24. Vails learned his moves sprinting through gridlock as a New York City bicycle messenger. Gorski took the gold, taking both heats, Vails the silver, and Japan's Tsutomu Sakamoto the bronze. As they racked up the wins with their funny bikes and star-spangled skinsuits, the reasons for U.S. success became evident: Eddie B.'s tight pre-Games team tactics and rigorous Rocky Mountain regimes. As Vails put it last week, "In today's cycling world...
...performances are tense and knowing, including that of Ryuichi Sakamoto, who plays the young captain (he also composed the film's haunting score). But the Merry Christmas catalogue of atrocities finally becomes numbing, even udicrous. Oshima describes the wartime Japanese as ''a nation of anxious people who could do nothing individually-so they went mad en masse." Alas, he does not explain that madness; he only puts it on horrific display. -By Richard Corliss