Tony Takitani
tony_8p_245x170_OK 29/07/04 2:06 Page 1 Director: Jun Ichikawa Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto Author: Haruki Murakami Born in 1948, Jun Ichikawa graduated from Harajuku School and then Award-winning composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has made Born in Kyoto in 1949, Haruki Murakami grew up in Kobe, and graduated Art School. He started work for an advertising company gradually a career of crossing musical and technological boundaries. Sakamoto from Waseda University in Tokyo. His first novel, Hear the Wind Sing working up to become a director. Making a name for himself by has experimented with, and excelled in, many different musical styles, (1979) won him the Gunzou Literature Prize for budding writers. This directing distinguished and well known commercials culminating in making a name for himself in popular, orchestral and film music. novel, together with Pinball 1973 (1980) and The Wild Sheep Chase the Grand Prize at the Cannes International Advertising festival in 1985. Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) (1982), which got him the Noma Literary Prize for New Writers, form A founding member of , Sakamoto The Trilogy of the Rat Hard-boiled A prize which he went on to win for 3 successive years in a row. has composed original scores for 18 major and independent films, . He is also the author of Very soon after this he directed his first feature film "Bu Su" in 1987. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence The Last Emperor Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Norwegian Wood including: , , Dance, Dance, Dance South of the Border, West of Selected Filmography The Sheltering Sky, and most recently, Brian DePalma’s Femme (1987), (1988), Tsugumi (Tsugumi) Fatale the Sun (1992), Sputnik Sweetheart (1999), and After the Quake 1990 .
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