He concurrently began pursuing a solo career, debuting with the experimental electronic fusion album The Thousand Knives of Ryūichi Sakamoto ( 1978 ), and later released the pioneering album B-2 Unit ( 1980 ), which included the electro classic " Riot in Lagos ".

Sakamoto released his first solo album in mid-1978, Thousand Knives of Ryūichi Sakamoto, with the help of Hideki Matsutake, who would later be the " fourth member " of Yellow Magic Orchestra, and with the band's founding member Haruomi Hosono also contributing to the song " Thousand Knives ".

Sakamoto would later remix his song " Thousand Knives " using the Roland TR-808 drum machine as " 1000 Knives " for his band's album BGM ( 1981 ).

She later married fellow musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, with whom she had a daughter Miu Sakamoto.

Sakamoto later won the 1983 BAFTA Award for Best Film Music for the film's soundtrack.

Several days later, on November 3, 1989, several Aum Shinrikyo members, including Hideo Murai, chief scientist, Satoro Hashimoto, a martial arts master, and Tomomasa Nakagawa, drove to Yokohama, where Sakamoto lived.

According to court testimony provided by the perpetrators later, they planned to use the chemical substance to kidnap Sakamoto from Yokohama's Shinkansen train station, but, contrary to expectations, he did not show up — it was a holiday ( Bunka no hi, or " Culture Day "), so he slept in with his family, at home.

Moments later, Sakamoto is seen planting explosives to destroy the temple stone, when he meets the female Korean researcher who had originally followed Inoue.

He gets beaten by Sakamoto, but they become friends later on.

De Palma has also worked with composers Pino Donaggio ( Carrie, Home Movies, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Body Double, Raising Cain ), Ennio Morricone ( The Untouchables, Casualties of War, and Mission to Mars ) and Ryuichi Sakamoto ( Snake Eyes, Femme Fatale ).

The band was an international success, with worldwide hits such as " Computer Game / Firecracker " ( 1978 ) and " Behind the Mask " ( 1978 ), the latter written and sung by Sakamoto.

That same year, Sakamoto began a long-standing collaboration with David Sylvian when he co-wrote and performed on the Japan track " Taking Islands In Africa ".

In 1982, Sakamoto worked on another collaboration with Sylvian, a single entitled " Bamboo Houses / Bamboo Music ".

At times, Sakamoto would also present varying interpretations of technology's intersection with music: He would present some pieces, such as " Replica ", with Kraftwerkian rigidity and order, while he would infuse humanity and humor into others – " Broadway Boogie Woogie ", for example, liberally lifts samples from Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner and pairs them with a raucous, sax-driven techno-pop backdrop.

Following 1996, Sakamoto simultaneously delved into the classical and " post-techno " genres with Discord ( 1998 ), an hour-long orchestral work in four parts.

They recorded their first album, Casa ( 2001 ), mostly in Jobim's home studio in Rio de Janeiro, with Sakamoto performing on the late Jobim's grand piano.

Sakamoto collaborated with Alva Noto ( an alias of Carsten Nicolai ) to release Vrioon, an album of Sakamoto's piano clusters treated by Nicolai's unique style of digital manipulation, involving the creation of " micro-loops " and minimal percussion.

Moviegoers may recognize Sakamoto primarily through his score work on two films: Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence ( 1983 ), including the title theme and the duet " Forbidden Colours " with David Sylvian, and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor ( 1987 ), the latter of which earned him the Academy Award with fellow composers David Byrne and Cong Su.

Sakamoto then married popular Japanese pianist and singer Akiko Yano in 1982, having collaborated with her on some of her recordings.

Ryuichi Sakamoto has won a number of awards for his work as a film composer, beginning with his score for Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence ( 1983 ) winning him the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music.

* Willits + Sakamoto: Ocean Fire ( 2007, with Christopher Willits )

* Willits + Sakamoto: Ancient Future ( 2012, with Christopher Willits )

In 2006, Sakamoto, with avex Group's help, founded, a record label promising change in the way music should be.

She has recorded with Yellow Magic Orchestra and its members Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, and Yukihiro Takahashi, as well as Swing Out Sister, Pat Metheny, The Chieftains, Lyle Mays, members of Little Feat, David Sylvian, Mick Karn, Kenji Omura, Gil Goldstein, Toninho Horta, Mino Cinelu, Jeff Bova, Charlie Haden, Peter Erskine, Anthony Jackson, David Rhodes, Bill Frisell, Thomas Dolby, the band Quruli, Rei Harakami as yanokami, and her daughter Miu Sakamoto.

Kyu Sakamoto, a fan of Elvis, made his stage début as a member of the band The Drifters at the Nichigeki Western Carnival in 1958.

Prior to SMAP's official debut in 1991, the group's lineup continuously rotated and, at one point, even included future V6 leader Masayuki Sakamoto and future Tokio member Taichi Kokubun.

When the third former YMO member, Ryuichi Sakamoto deepened his involvement it was decided to bill those collaborations as Human Audio Sponge.

Sakamoto is the only member from the Metroid development team to also work on Metroid: Zero Mission.

In 2005, Sakamoto was appointed the Barker Fairly Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto, and a member of the Toronto Arts Council in 2007.

* Arto Lindsay: O Corpo Sutil ( 1996, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on 4 tracks )

* Red Hot + Rio, produced by the Red Hot Organization: É Preciso Perdoar ( 1996, Ryuichi Sakamoto performs keyboards for the duet sung by Cesária Évora and Caetano Veloso )

* 1989-TBS partly took part in Sakamoto family murder by Aum Shinrikyo, and this was swamped with complaints in 1996.

In 1996 and 1997 Iwai collaborated with musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto to create the multimedia stage performance Music Plays Images x Images Play Music.

The Billiken was a star in Sakamoto Junji's 1996 comedy Billiken in which the statue is restored to the Tsutenkaku in an effort to revive the popularity of the tower and save Shinsekai.

Sakamoto was the songwriter and composer for a number of the band's hit songs, including " Yellow Magic ( Tong Poo )" ( 1978 ), " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), " Nice Age " ( 1980 ), " Ongaku " ( 1983 ), and " You've Got to Help Yourself " ( 1983 ), while playing the keyboards for many of their other songs, including international hits such as " Computer Game / Firecracker " ( 1978 ) and " Rydeen " ( 1979 ), and singing in several songs such as " Kimi ni Mune Kyun " ( 1983 ).

Other films scored by Sakamoto include Pedro Almodóvar's Tacones lejanos ( High Heels ) ( 1991 ), Bertolucci's The Little Buddha ( 1993 ), Oliver Stone's Wild Palms ( 1993 ), John Maybury's Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon ( 1998 ), Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes ( 1998 ) and Femme Fatale ( 2002 ), Oshima's Gohatto ( 1999 ), and Kiran Rao's Dhobi Ghat ( 2011 ).

*" Loop " ( song ), a song by Maaya Sakamoto

Among the many noted video game voice actors and actresses are Maaya Sakamoto ( the Japanese voice for the Final Fantasy XIII character Lightning ), Tatsuhisa Suzuki ( the voice of Noctis Lucis Caelum in Final Fantasy Versus XIII ), Troy Baker ( English Snow Villers, Joel, Batman in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes ), Steve Downes and Jen Taylor ( Master Chief and Cortana from the Halo series ), Nolan North ( Nathan Drake from the Uncharted games and Desmond Miles from the Assassin's Creed game series ), Liam O ' Brien ( the voice of Caius Ballad in Final Fantasy XIII-2 and War in Darksiders ), and Jonell Elliott ( the voices of Lara Croft from 1999-2003 ).

On November 4, 1989, Tsutsumi Sakamoto ( 坂本 堤 Sakamoto Tsutsumi April 8, 1956-November 4, 1989 ), a lawyer working on a class action lawsuit against Aum Shinrikyo, a controversial and destructive " new religious movement " in Japan, was murdered, along with his wife and child, by perpetrators who broke into his apartment.

His wife, Satoko Sakamoto ( 坂本都子 Sakamoto Satoko, 29 years old ), was beaten.

Ryuichi Sakamoto, particularly his song " Riot in Lagos ", had an influence on early electro and hip hop artists such as Afrika Bambaata, and was cited by Kurtis Mantronik as a major influence on his electro hip hop group Mantronix.

Sakamoto would alternate between exploring a variety of musical styles, ideas, and genres – captured most notably in his groundbreaking 1983 album Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia – and focusing on a specific subject or theme, such as the Italian Futurism movement in Futurista ( 1986 ).

Meiert Avis shot Sakamoto while at work on the score for " The Last Emperor " in London.

* David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees ( 1984, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano / synthesizers on 3 tracks )

* David Sylvian: Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities ( 1985, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano and strings on 1 track )

* Thomas Dolby: Fieldwork ( 1985, written by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Thomas Dolby, featuring Thomas Dolby on vocals )

* David Sylvian: Secrets of the Beehive ( 1987, featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto on all 10 tracks )

* David van Tieghem: Safety in Numbers ( 1989, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on keyboards on 2 tracks )

* Hector Zazou: Sahara Blue ( 1992, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano on 4 tracks )

* Hector Zazou: Strong Currents ( 2003, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano )

* David Sylvian: Dead Bees on a Cake ( 1999, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on 7 tracks )

* David Sylvian: Everything and Nothing ( 2000, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on 9 tracks )