This is exquisite. Just beautiful.

| Apr 17, 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

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 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

The twin themes of “Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus” are art and mortality, and they’re twisted so tightly together that they become inextricable.

| Mar 14, 2024

A final performance for the ages, showcasing Sakamoto’s ingenuity and musical legacy for the next generation of fans who will not be privileged to watch him live in concert.

| Oct 18, 2023

Under Sora Neo’s direction, each number becomes a mini-study of Sakamoto and the grand piano he plays on.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2023

“Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus” lets Sakamoto deliver an elegy, and in the process, an autobiography of his creative journey, as captured through the precision and poetry of director Neo Sora’s camera.

| Sep 7, 2023

A concert is ephemeral; one is filled with gratitude that this film is not.

| Sep 5, 2023

Free of exposition, narrative, and all but a handful of words it is, simply, a piano performance without an audience.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 5, 2023