Much of the film follows Sakamoto as he records and produces async, his 19th solo album.Īlongside musings and observations about contemporary Japanese culture in comparison to Sakamoto’s early adulthood in Yellow Magic Orchestra, the film quietly watches Sakamoto work, gather sounds for sampling and wax poetic about the inner workings of a piano. In that time, Sakamoto was diagnosed with cancer, and what perhaps began as a more kaleidoscopic look at his life and career grew more sullen and curious, a mapless moment in time captured with compassion and poise. Schible spent the last five years with Sakamoto, beginning not long after the Fukushima disaster and the musician’s own status as an icon in Japan’s growing social movement against nuclear power. It’s an intimate portrait, peppered with some truly stirring moments with the man himself, but overall it feels entirely too meditative for a man whose career has been so exalted and influential. Director Stephen Nomura Schible’s documentary Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda perfectly captures the somber side of the beloved composer but fails to better engage the other facets of his work and history.
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