Ryuichi Sakamoto discography

For a comprehensive list of releases by Sakamoto as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra, see Yellow Magic Orchestra discography.

Ryuichi Sakamoto discography
Sakamoto and Alva Noto at a press conference
Studio albums	19
Live albums	6
Compilation albums	6
Music videos	5
EPs	5

Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto released 19 solo studio albums, six live albums, several compilation albums, two extended plays (EPs), singles, and soundtracks. Sakamoto has also released many video albums and music videos. Several of Sakamoto's albums exist in two versions: the original Japanese version and the international version, which may contain different track listings.

Albums

Solo studio albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions
Year	Album details	JP ^[1]^[2]
1978	Thousand Knives Released: October 25, 1978 Labels: Nippon Columbia Formats: LP	–
1980	B-2 Unit Released: September 21, 1980 Labels: Alfa Records Formats: LP	19
1981	Left-Handed Dream Released: October 5, 1981 Labels: Alfa Records Formats: LP	20
1984	Ongaku Zukan (Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia)^[A] Released: October 24, 1984 Labels: Midi Formats: LP	5
1985	Esperanto Released: October 5, 1985 Labels: Midi Formats: LP	9
1986	Futurista Released: April 21, 1986 Labels: Midi Formats: LP	5
1987	Neo Geo Released: July 1, 1987 Labels: Sony Music Formats: LP	8
1989	Beauty Released: November 21, 1989 Labels: Virgin Records Formats: LP	14
1991	Heartbeat Released: October 21, 1991 Labels: Virgin Records Formats: LP	6
1994	Sweet Revenge Released: June 17, 1994 Labels: For Life Music Formats: LP	7
1995	Smoochy Released: October 20, 1995 Labels: For Life Music Formats: LP	28
1996	1996 Released: May 17, 1996 Labels: For Life Music Formats: LP	–
1997	Discord Released: July 2, 1997 Labels: For Life Music Formats: LP	–
1998	BTTB Released: November 30, 1998 Labels: Warner Music Japan Formats: LP	26
2002	Comica Released: February 27, 2002 Labels: Warner Music Japan Formats: LP	–
2002	Elephantism Released: May 15, 2002 Labels: Warner Music Japan Formats: LP	–
2004	Chasm Released: February 25, 2004 Labels: Warner Music Japan Formats: LP	19
2009	Out of Noise Released: March 4, 2009 Labels: Commmons Formats: LP	16
2012	Three Released: October 17, 2012 Labels: Commmons Formats: LP	37
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

A^ The 1986 international release was titled Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia.

Live albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions
Year	Album details	JP ^[1]^[2]	US Classical ^[3]
1986	Media Bahn Live Released: September 21, 1986 Labels: Midi Formats: LP	–	–
1988	Playing the Orchestra Released: December 16, 1988 Labels: Virgin Records Formats: LP	–	–
1999	Cinemage Released: 1999 Labels: Sony Classical Records Formats: LP	–	–
2000	Audio Life Released: February 23, 2000 Labels: Warner Music Japan Formats: LP	–	–
2001	In The Lobby: At G.E.H. in London Released: March 22, 2001 Labels: Warner Music Japan Formats: LP	–	–
2009	Playing the Piano Released: September 23, 2009 Labels: Commmons Formats: LP	41	10
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Compilation albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions
Year	Album details	JP ^[1]^[2]
1978	Tokyo Joe (with Kazumi Watanabe) Released: 1978 Labels: Nippon Columbia Formats: LP	–
1983	Coda Released: December 10, 1983 Labels: London Records Formats: LP	38
1994	Soundbytes Released: May 17, 1994 Labels: Mesa/Bluemoon Recordings Formats: LP	–
2002	Works I – CM Released: November 20, 2002 Labels: Midi Formats: LP	–
2003	Moto.tronic Released: November 11, 2003 Labels: Sony Music Formats: LP	–
2004	/04 Released: November 24, 2004 Labels: Warner Music Japan Formats: LP	–
2005	/05 Released: September 28, 2005 Labels: Warner Music Japan Formats: LP	28
2006	Bricolages Released: July 4, 2006 Labels: Warner-Elektra-Atlantic Records Formats: LP	81
2015	Year Book 2005–2014 Released: January 17, 2015 Labels: Commmons Formats: LP	46
2016	Year Book 1971-1979 Released: January 17, 2016 Labels: Commmons Formats: LP	77
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Extended plays and mini-albums

Year	Album details	Ref.
1997	Music for Yohji Yamamoto: Collection, 1995 Released: January 29, 1997 Labels: Gut Records Formats: Mini-LP	^[4]
2001	Zero Landmine (as part of N.M.L. No More Landmines) Released: April 25, 2001 Labels: Warner-Elektra-Atlantic Records Formats: EP	^[5]

Video albums

Year	Video details	Ref.
1985	TV War (with Radical TV) Distributor: CBS/Sony Format: LaserDisc
1986	Adelic Penguins Distributor: Sony Video Software Format: LaserDisc	^[6]
2006	Insen Live (as alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto) Released: October 2006 Distributor: Raster-Noton Format: DVD
2008	LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible… (as Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani) Released: May 28, 2008 Distributor: Commmons Format: DVD
2015	Playing the Orchestra 2014 Released: April 7, 2015 Distributor: Commmons Format: DVD, Blu-ray
2015	Trio Tour 2012 Japan Released: December 9, 2015 Distributor: Commmons Format: DVD, Blu-ray

Music videos

Year	Title	Director(s)	Ref.
1983	"Forbidden Colours" (with David Sylvian)
1985	"Field Work" (with Thomas Dolby)	Thomas Dolby	^[7]
1987	"Risky" (feat. Iggy Pop)	Meiert Avis	^[8]
1990	"You Do Me" (feat. Jill Jones)
1992	"Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II)" (feat. David Sylvian and Ingrid Chavez)	Kevin Westenberg	^[9]
2003	"Trioon I" (as alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto)	Karl Kliem	^[10]
2013	"Psychedelic Afternoon"	Uruma Delvi	^[11]

Soundtrack albums

Year	Album	Notes	Ref.
1983	Daijōbu, My Friend
1983	Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1986	The Adventures of Chatran: Original Soundtrack
1987	Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise
1987	The Last Emperor
1989	Fantasy of Light and Life
1989	Tengai Makyou: Ziria		^[12]
1990	The Sheltering Sky
1990	The Handmaid's Tale
1992	High Heels
1992	Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
1992	Tokyo Decadence
1993	Peachboy
1993	Wild Palms
1994	Little Buddha
1997	The Other Side Of Love	Soundtrack for television series Stalker: Nigekirenu Ai
1998	Snake Eyes
1998	Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1999	Gohatto
1999	Poppoya	Composed the main theme
2000	L.O.L.: Lack of Love	Dreamcast video game for which Sakamoto was also the scenario writer
2002	Femme Fatale
2002	Century of Reform
2002	Derrida	Certain tracks from the film were released on the compilation album Minha Vida Como Un Filme (2002)
2002	Alexei and the Spring	Certain tracks from the film were released on the compilation album Minha Vida Como Un Filme (2002)
2004	Seven Samurai 20XX	PlayStation 2 video game
2005	Shining Boy & Little Randy
2005	Tony Takitani
2006	Dawn of Mana	PlayStation 2 video game
2007	Silk
2008	Indigo	Short film
2009	Women Without Men
2011	Dhobi Ghat
2011	Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
2012	I Have to Buy New Shoes	With Kotringo	^[13]
2015	Living With My Mother
2015	The Revenant	With Alva Noto and additional music by Bryce Dessner	^[14]

Other album appearances

Collaborations

With Toshiyuki Tsuchitori

Disappointment-Hateruma (1975)

With The Kakutougi Session

Summer Nerves (1979)

With Danceries

The End of Asia (1982)

With Robin Scott

The Arrangement (1982, originally released as an EP and later expended into a full album with albumless singles)

With Thomas Dolby

"Field Work" (1985, originally released as a non-album single)

With Yōsuke Yamashita and Bill Laswell

Asian Games (1993, live LP)

With David Sylvian

World Citizen (2003, EP)

With Morelenbaum²

Casa (2001)
A Day in New York (2003)

With Carsten Nicolai, as alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto

Vrioon (2002)
Insen (2005)
Revep (2006, EP)
utp_ (2008, with Ensemble Modern)
Summvs (2011)

With Christopher Willits, as Willits + Sakamoto

Ocean Fire (2007)
Ancient Future (2012)

With Fennesz

Sala Santa Cecilia (2005, live EP)
Cendre (2007)
Flumina (2011)

With Taylor Deupree and Illuha, as Taylor Deupree / Illuha / Ryuichi Sakamoto

Perpetual (2015)

Soundtracks

Year	Song(s)	Album	Notes	Ref.
1989	"Laserman"	Black Rain soundtrack		^[15]
1992	"El Mar Mediterrani"	El Mar Mediterrani	Composition for 1992 Summer Olympics opening ceremony officially released on the 1997 mini-album of the same name	^[16]
1998	"Dreamcast Startup"		Startup sound for the Dreamcast video game console	^[17]
2003	"Chinsagu No Hana"	Japanese Story soundtrack	An alternate mix by Elizabeth Drake originally from Beauty	^[18]
2006	"Bibo No Aozora", "Only Love Can Conquer Hate", "World Citizen (I Won't Be Disappointed)"	Babel soundtrack	Alternate mixes originally from 1996 and Chasm	^[19]

Guest appearances

Year	Album	Artist	Details
1979	Intimate	Keizo Inoue	Piano, synthesizer
1979	Kylyn	Kazumi Watanabe	Co-producer, keyboards
1980	Gentlemen Take Polaroids	Japan	Co-writer ("Taking Islands in Africa")
1983	Rose	Mari Iijima	Producer
1984	Brilliant Trees	David Sylvian	Guest piano/synthesizers on three tracks
1985	Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities	David Sylvian	Guest piano and strings on one track
1985	Memory Theatre	Ayuo Takahashi	Guest musician
1986	Hope in a Darkened Heart	Virginia Astley	Producer
	Venus Tanjō	Yukiko Okada	Co-writer ("Wonder Trip Lover", "Kuchibiru Network", "Nemurenu Yoru no AQUARIUS")
	Album	Public Image Ltd	Synthesizer ("Rise", "Fishing", "Bags", "Ease")
1987	Secrets of the Beehive	David Sylvian	Arrangement, organ, synthesizer, piano
1989	Safety in Numbers	David van Tieghem	Keyboards
1991	Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses	Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses	Piano, backing vocals
1992	Sahara Blue	Hector Zazou	Piano ("Ophelie", "Hapolot Kenym", "Harar et les Gallas")
1993	Dreamland	Aztec Camera	Co-producer
1995	The Geisha Girls Show	Geisha Girls	Producer
1996	O Corpo Sutil	Arto Lindsay	Guest musician
1996	Red Hot + Rio	Red Hot Organization	Keyboards ("É Preciso Perdoar (You Must Forgive)")
1999	Dead Bees on a Cake	David Sylvian	Arrangement, piano, guitar, bansuri, insects
2000	Everything and Nothing	David Sylvian	Arrangement, piano
2003	Strong Currents	Hector Zazou	Piano
2004	Astromantic	M-Flo	Guest musician ("I Wanna Be Down")
2004	Cinema	Rodrigo Leão	Guest musician
2005	Snow Borne Sorrow	Nine Horses	Piano ("Atom and Cell", "Snow Borne Sorrow")
2006	Yellow Fever!	Senor Coconut	Guest musician
2011	Heligoland (Extended Edition)	Massive Attack	Co-remixer ("Fatalism")
2011	Forgetfulness	Natalie Beridze TBA	Co-writer ("Blue Shadow")

References

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1 2 3 "坂本龍". Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on January 24, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
↑ "Ryuichi Sakamoto - Classical Albums Chart History". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Archived from the original on January 24, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
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↑ "N.M.L. (No More Landmine) - Zero Landmine". davidsylvian.net. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
↑ "Adelic Penguins, Kit Fitzgerald". Electronic Arts Intermix. Archived from the original on February 3, 2016. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
↑ Stav, Steve (May 20, 2011). "Windpower And Floating Cities - An Interview With Thomas Dolby". Intermittent Signals. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
↑ Kretsch, Ron (January 13, 2014). "Iggy Pop and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s ‘Risky,’ a video tribute to Man Ray". Dangerous Minds. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
↑ "Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II)". davidsylvian.net. Archived from the original on October 9, 2009. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
↑ "Visuals". Dienststelle. Archived from the original on January 19, 2016. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
↑ Mineo, Mike (12 March 2013). "Ryuichi Sakamoto + David Byrne – “Psychedelic Afternoon”". Obscure Sound. Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
↑ "Tengai Makyo Ziria" (PDF). Hudson. March 23, 2006. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
↑ Lee, Maggie (October 15, 2012). "Review: ‘I Have to Buy New Shoes’". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
↑ "The Revenant (2015)". Soundtrack.Net. Autotelics. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
↑ Demalon, Tom. "Black Rain - Original Soundtrack". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
↑ Illness, Critical (September 3, 2010). "Doreen D'Agostino Media » Ryuichi Sakamoto and Decca". Doreendagostinomedia.com. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
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↑ Granade, Andrew (December 6, 2006). "Babel Soundtrack (2006)". Soundtrack.Net. Autotelics. Retrieved January 20, 2016.

External links

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Studio albums

Solo	Thousand Knives (1978) B-2 Unit (1980) Left-Handed Dream (1981) Ongaku Zukan (1984) Esperanto (1985) Futurista (1986) Neo Geo (1987) Beauty (1989) Heartbeat (1991) Sweet Revenge (1994) Smoochy (1995) 1996 (1996) Discord (1997) BTTB (1999) Comica (2002) Elephantism (2002) Chasm (2004) Out of Noise (2009) Three (2012)

Collaborations	Disappointment-Hateruma (1975) Summer Nerves (1979) The End of Asia (1982) The Arrangement (1982) Casa (2001) Vrioon (2002) A Day in New York (2003) Insen (2005) Ocean Fire (2007) Cendre (2007) utp_ (2008) Summvs (2011) Flumina (2011) Ancient Future (2012) Perpetual (2015)

Extended plays

Music for Yohji Yamamoto: Collection, 1995 (1997)
Zero Landmine (2001)
World Citizen (2003)
Sala Santa Cecilia (2005)
Revep (2006)

Live albums

Media Bahn Live (1986)
Playing the Orchestra (1988)
Asian Games (1993)
Cinemage (1999)
Audio Life (2000)
In The Lobby: At G.E.H. in London (2001)
Playing the Piano (2009)

Compilations

Tokyo Joe (1978)
Coda (1983)
Soundbytes (1994)
Works I – CM (2002)
Moto.tronic (2003)
/04 (2004)
/05 (2005)
Bricolages (2006)
Year Book 2005–2014 (2015)
Year Book 1971-1979 (2016)

Soundtracks

Songs

Filmography

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
The Last Emperor (1987)
"Rain" (1993)
New Rose Hotel (1998)
Neo the Office Chuckler (2004)
Freeter, Ie wo Kau (2010)
Hungry! (2012)
Rich Man, Poor Woman (2012)

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