Sakamoto used Opus to serve as a tribute, a performance piece, and a time capsule. His works will endure, and Sora honours his subject’s memory by presenting them in as simple and beautiful a manner as possible.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2024

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus is not just a movie, it is a spiritual and emotional experience... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 24, 2024

The experience is inspiring, the black and white photography, the soft music, the discreet framing changes and piano interventions, remind us that the greatest significance of an artist will always be his own work. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 20, 2024

A fine companion to the more traditional retrospective documentary Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda,

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2024

This intimate, soulful concert film is a fitting closing bow from one of the masters.

| May 9, 2024

You might think such a large dose of his melancholy, Satie-influenced compositions—drawn from a full career’s breadth, from Yellow Magic Orchestra to solo albums and celebrated soundtrack work—might grow monotonous. But they don’t.

| Apr 27, 2024

The lonely goodbye of an essential musician. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 25, 2024

This elegant, haunting tribute is a unique documentary unlike and superior to musical homages I’ve seen. It transported me to a world of beauty and grace.

| Apr 23, 2024

This is exquisite. Just beautiful.

| Apr 17, 2024

Sora didn’t have much to work with over these 100 minutes, but his familiarity with his father’s physical body gives the film a certain tactility.

| Apr 3, 2024

Mesmerizing and soulful, Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus is a heartfelt final testament to one of the greatest composers and instrumentalists of all time

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 29, 2024

Filmed in magnificent monochrome with the kind of richness that reminds you black and white are colors too, Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus will put you in a contemplative place.

| Mar 28, 2024

The austerity of the film-making affords a rare chance to meditate on his range and the variety of his work as well as the consistency of his voice as a composer.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 28, 2024

Opus provides a fitting eulogy to one of the most influential figures in music from any part of the globe.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2024

A gorgeous, moving document of a supreme artist, immortalised once more on film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2024

A fittingly elegiac and spare farewell to a modern musical master, this private-concert film is full of mellow magic, but no orchestra.

| Mar 21, 2024

The sound recording is breathtakingly good, an apt correlative to the austere yet sumptuous black-and-white imagery.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 16, 2024

As Sakamoto communes with his music, we feel like we might be intruding on a private requiem. At times, he seems to be playing for himself. Are those reflections in his glasses tricks of the light, or are they tears?

| Mar 16, 2024

What unfolds onscreen is no mere performance, no mere gesture, but a face-to-face between presence and absence.

| Mar 16, 2024

It’s as much Sora’s goodbye to his father as it is Sakamoto’s goodbye to his fans, a dual release of creative expression and reflection.

| Mar 14, 2024