3) This Is Ryuichi Sakamoto’s First Hollywood Score In Almost A Decade
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Oscar-winning composer behind themes for The Last Emperor and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, doesn’t do Hollywood much these days. He’s never really done that much movie composing full-stop, but lately we’ve heard very little from this Japanese master. His last score for a Hollywood movie came nearly a decade ago, for Silk, a film which critics were…unkind to.
Even in that film, however, Sakamoto’s work was still typically moving and profound. Thankfully, he’s returning to the Hollywood fold this year to work with talent that matches his own, for a movie that – in its state of being near-silent dialogue-wise – will put the sound of Sakamoto front-and-center. After years away, here’s hoping Sakamoto is returning fresh with the ideas to elevate The Revenant into being something more than just the next survival movie.