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.

Many of Kitano's routines involved him portraying a gangster or other harsh character, and his first major film role, in Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence ( where he starred opposite Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Bowie ), featured him cast as a tough ( but sympathetic ) POW camp sergeant during World War II.

He cites animation composers Hiroshi Miyagawa and Ryuichi Sakamoto of Yellow Magic Orchestra, impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, and his father as major musical influences.

Sato cites Queen, Claude Debussy, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Kate Bush as major musical influences.

It was designed by Toru Osawa and Yoshio Sakamoto, directed by Satoru Okada, and produced by Gunpei Yokoi.

In a 2010 interview, Yoshio Sakamoto was asked about a Kid Icarus game for the Wii, to which he replied that he was not aware of any plans to revive the franchise.

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.

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 ).

In July 2009 Sakamoto was honored as Officier of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres at the French Embassy in Tokyo.

Sakamoto has also acted in several films: perhaps his most notable performance was as the conflicted Captain Yonoi in Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, alongside Takeshi Kitano and British rock singer David Bowie.

" Sixteen-year-old Maaya Sakamoto, fresh from a small role in the anime adaptation of Mizuiro Jidai, was selected not only as the voice of Hitomi, but also to sing the Escaflowne theme song.

Jamshied Sharifi's first record, " A Prayer For The Soul Of Layla ", was inspired by his daughter, Layla Sakamoto Sharifi.

During the trials, some of the disciples testified against Asahara, and he was found guilty on 13 of 17 charges, including the Sakamoto family murder, while four charges were dropped.

Yoshiteru was only 11 at the time and his investiture ceremony was held at Sakamoto, Ōmi Province, outside Kyoto.

It was designed by Yoshio Sakamoto and released as a launch title for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Secrets of the Beehive ( 1987 ) made greater use of acoustic instruments and was musically oriented towards sombre, emotive ballads laced with shimmering string arrangements by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Brian Gascoigne.

The first translation into Japanese was done by Sakamoto Ken-ichi in 1920.

The translation was by Lǐ Tiězhēng, a non-Muslim, who did not translate from the Arabic, but from Rodwell's English via Sakamoto Ken-ichi's Japanese.

Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto declared that he considered creating a new installment for the Nintendo 64, but was uninterested in being part of its development, particularly because of the console's controller – " I just couldn ’ t imagine how it could be used to move Samus around ".

Sakamoto also said Nintendo approached another company to make an N64 Metroid, but the offer was declined as the developer felt they could not make a game that could be up to Super Metroids standards.

His father was active in the Sonnō jōi movement, and Mutsu Munemitsu joined forces with Sakamoto Ryōma and Itō Hirobumi in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate.

* The former Hanzan was founded in 1956 ( the 31st year of the Showa era ) with the amalgamation of the villages of Sakamoto and Hokunji.

* Sakamoto Ryōma ( 1836 – 1867 ) was a leader of the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate during the Bakumatsu period.

Under development for 18 months, Super Metroid was directed and written by Yoshio Sakamoto, and produced by Makoto Kano with Gunpei Yokoi serving as general manager.

The game was directed and written by Yoshio Sakamoto, and produced by Makoto Kano, with music composed by Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano.

When asked why the game took so long to make, Sakamoto responded, " We wanted to wait until a true action game was needed.

" On a similar note, we told Mr. Sakamoto that a fan translation had been done some years ago for Front Mission 1, and asked how he felt about such efforts.

While brainstorming for ideas to Metroid Fusions plot, the game's lead designer, Yoshio Sakamoto, decided to create an original story instead of remaking a Metroid game because he " always to do something really unprecedented, something people have never played before ".

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.

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

On August 1, 2005 Sakamoto, along with the towns of Kagami and Senchō, and the villages of Izumi and Tōyō, all from Yatsushiro District, was merged into the expanded city of Yatsushiro and no longer exists as an independent municipality.

On August 1, 2005 Senchō, along with the town of Kagami, and the villages of Izumi, Sakamoto and Tōyō, all from Yatsushiro District, was merged into the expanded city of Yatsushiro and no longer exists as an independent municipality.

On August 1, 2005 Kagami, along with the town of Senchō, and the villages of Izumi, Sakamoto and Tōyō, all from Yatsushiro District, was merged into the expanded city of Yatsushiro and no longer exists as an independent municipality.

On August 1, 2005 Tōyō, along with the towns of Kagami and Senchō, and the villages of Izumi and Sakamoto, all from Yatsushiro District, was merged into the expanded city of Yatsushiro and no longer exists as an independent municipality.

On August 1, 2005 Izumi, along with the towns of Kagami and Senchō, and the villages of Sakamoto and Tōyō, all from Yatsushiro District, was merged into the expanded city of Yatsushiro and no longer exists as an independent municipality.

The deaths of Lisa Au, Regina Sakamoto, and others all over the island, led many to believe that there was a crime wave during the 1980s.

Throughout the course of the video, Magnus Pyke ( as the Home Doctor ) tries to diagnose what he is suffering from, all the while being seduced by Miss Sakamoto, a secretary in the home.

Nagasaki has three main international cemeteries: 1 ) Inasa International Cemetery, which is the oldest foreign cemetery in Japan and consists of separate plots for Chinese, Dutch and Russian people ; 2 ) Oura International Cemetery, which was established in the early 1860s near the site of the Nagasaki foreign settlement and served the foreign community until being closed in 1888 ; and 3 ) Sakamoto International Cemetery, which has some 440 graves including that of Scottish merchant Thomas Blake Glover.

* There were four separate outlines for Forever Red: one by Koichi Sakamoto, one by Jonathan Tzachor, and two by Amit Bhaumik.

It is formally named Hanyū no Sakamoto no misasagi.

Yoshio Sakamoto joined the team as soon as he had returned from his vacation after the completion of Metroid.

Sakamoto entered the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1970, earning a B. A.

Also in 1980, Sakamoto released the single " War Head / Lexington Queen ", an experimental synthpop and electro record.

Following the disbanding of Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1983, Sakamoto released a number of solo albums during the 1980s.

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.

Sakamoto later teamed with cellist Jaques Morelenbaum ( a member of his 1996 trio ), and Morelenbaum's wife, Paula, on a pair of albums celebrating the work of bossa nova pioneer Antonio Carlos Jobim.

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.

Meanwhile, Sakamoto continues to craft music to suit any context: In 2005, Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia hired Sakamoto to compose ring and alert tones for their high-end phone, the Nokia 8800.

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 has been married twice.

Sakamoto has a daughter from this relationship.

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

They had one daughter, J-pop singer Miu Sakamoto.