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.

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.

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.

Popular singer and songwriter Kyu Sakamoto also lived in Kasama as a child.

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.

* Ryuichi Sakamoto, musician, composer

In 2001, Takuro along with Ryuichi Sakamoto started " Artists Power ", an organization of artists who want to be active in the research on renewable energy .< ref name =" Artists Power "></ ref </ ref > " AP Bank ", which was founded by Mr. Children's Kazutoshi Sakurai, composer Takeshi Kobayashi and also Ryuichi Sakamoto, is linked to this organization-" AP " stands for both " Artists Power " and " Alternative Power ".

is a Japanese-language song that was performed by Japanese crooner Kyu Sakamoto, and written by lyricist Rokusuke Ei and composer Hachidai Nakamura.

* Hideki Sakamoto, video game composer

* Ryuichi Sakamoto, musician and composer, as well as an actor

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It features interviews between Milano and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who talks about his peculiar philosophy of life, his multi-directional approach to music, his classical training, new musical trends and the interaction of his work with visual arts.

Academy Award-winning composer Sakamoto Ryuichi ( born 1952 )

Some of the labels that publish lowercase music include Bremsstrahlung Recordings, Trente Oiseaux, 12k, and Raster-Noton, which features famed composer Ryuichi Sakamoto in collaboration with Carsten Nicolai, a. k. a. Alva Noto.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

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 ).

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

* 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 )

, performed by Maaya Sakamoto, is used for the series opening theme for the entire series, except the first episode in which no opening sequence is used.

His work has been extensively used in movie soundtracks, most notably in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su on Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Score.

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 ).

When Kyu Sakamoto took part in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen for the first time with the song " Ue o Muite Arukō " ( aka " Sukiyaki ") in 1961, Hideo Murata also made his debut with the song " Ōsho " at the same show.

After Fuyumi Sakamoto appeared on Masahiro Nakai's TV program Nakai Masahiro no Kinyōbi no Sumatachi e on March 19, 2010, her double A-side single " Mata Kimi ni Koi Shiteru / Asia no Kaizoku " reached the Top 10 for the first time, ranked at No. 9 on the Oricon charts.

Back in Japan, Tanaka ended up at the Sakamoto Civil Engineering firm, looking for office space to restart his drafting business.

Kanno has also composed music for pop artists, the most notable being Maaya Sakamoto and Kyōko Koizumi.

She has written a number of journals for Newtype magazine of which photos for illustrations are done by Kanno herself as well, and a selection of photos taken by Kanno of her protégé and former production partner Maaya Sakamoto were featured in the special event program for Sakamoto's 2010 thirtieth birthday concert at Nippon Budokan.