Yukihiro Takahashi

Tonovan Musician Kazuhiko Kato and His Era (2024)

This documentary follows the path of musician Kazuhiko Kato, who has created many masterpieces that remain in the history of Japanese pop music. Kazuhiko Kato, affectionately known as "Tonovan," influenced many people with his musicality that was ahead of ...

Yukihiro Takahashi - Trail of Creation (2023)

A NHK Music Special episode which retraces the life, wide-ranging talents and creative works of Yukihiro Takahashi, internationally known both for his solo-artist works as well as a member of YMO and the Sadistic Mika Band. This documentary consists of var ...

Labyrinth of Cinema (2020)

When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen. ...

No Smoking (2019)

A documentary about Haruomi Hosono, a musician respected around the world and the music composer of Cannes Palme d'Or winner Shoplifters. The footage traces his encounter with music in early childhood to his days in bands Happy End and YMO to his solo acti ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA (2017)

Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto weaves man-made and natural sounds together in his works. His anti-nuclear activism grew after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, and his career only paused after a 2014 cancer diagnosis. ...

Yellow Magic Orchestra - YMONHK (2012)

A live performed on August 5, 2011 at NHK 101 Studio in Shibuya, Tokyo. Yellow Magic Orchestra, who has almost never done a studio live, played "RYDEEN", "FIRECRACKER", "COSMIC SURFIN", and others, in front of about 1,000 spectators selected by lottery. K ...

Norwegian Wood (2010)

Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori. ...

20th Century Boys 3: Redemption (2009)

The final showdown, and the final reveal. Who is Friend? How can he be stopped? ...

Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist (2009)

Everyone in Japan knows his work, yet few recognize his face. Chris Mosdell, British expatriate, pop lyricist, poet and visual artist, during his 30-year residence in Tokyo has written chart-topping hits with some of Japan's most influential musicians and ...

MOONRIDERS THE MOVIE: PASSION MANIACS (2006)

30 years of the band, 30 years of Japanese rock. The story of passion toward the band and music. ...

Complete Hurrah (1999)

Yellow Magic Orchestra perform live at Hurrah in New York on November 1, 1979 ...

TV-YMO (1993)

A compilation of 1980s television appearances by Yellow Magic Orchestra. ...

YMO – Live At Budokan 1980 (1993)

Yellow Magic Orchestra perform at Nippon Budokan on December 27, Tokyo 1980 ...

Technodon in Tokyo Dome (1993)

YMO – Hi-Tech Video Crime (1992)

The Discarnates (1988)

A recently divorced writer is reunited with the ghosts of his parents who died when he was a boy. However, every time he sees them he loses more life energy. Now, he must choose between starting a new life or staying forever in the past. ...

April Fish (1986)

A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the South Seas. ...

Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto (1985)

Documentary about the eclectic Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto during the recording sessions for his 1984 album "Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia". ...

The Island Closest to Heaven (1984)

A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about. ...

A Y.M.O. Film: Propaganda (1984)

Starring Yellow Magic Orchestra and David Brooks Palmer, YMO Propaganda is 1984 Musical film directed by Shin Saito. Originally premiered theatrically throughout Japan in 1984 and is considered by some to be the best visual work from 'Y.M.O. ...

YMO JAPAN TOUR at Nippon Budokan (1983)

Yellow Magic Orchestra playing songs from the album Service in the Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan in the 22 Dec. ...

Boys Will Be Boys (1983)

Yukihiro Takahashi Live 1983 ...

YMO: Winter Live '81 (1983)

Yellow Magic Orchestra concert recorded in late December 1981 at the Shinjuku Koma Theater. ...

It's All Right, My Friend (1983)

An alien with super powers fallen from the sky is befriended by some people who help him stop an evil group out to get him. ...

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Winter Live 1981 (1981)

A domestic live tour in 1981 when YMO released two masterpiece albums, "BGM" and "Technodelic". A live concert filmed at the Shinjuku Koma Theater, "WINTER LIVE 1981" focuses on songs from "BGM" and "Technodelic" and symbolizing the mid-term YMO catalogue ...

Shizuka na ayashii gogo ni (1997)

Anthology consisting of three films. ...

I Can Hear the Duck Singing (1993)

A man fed up with city life moves to a village in the mountains ...

The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral (1991)

A mother and her daughter move from the urban sprawl of Tokyo to the remote island of Ishigaki in the Ryukyu archipelago, and try to adapt to life there. ...

The Adventures of Gaku (1990)

A dog is separated from his master and searches for him across the wilderness ...

April Fish (1986)

A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the South Seas. ...

YMO JAPAN TOUR at Nippon Budokan (1983)

Yellow Magic Orchestra playing songs from the album Service in the Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan in the 22 Dec. ...

YMO: Winter Live '81 (1983)

Yellow Magic Orchestra concert recorded in late December 1981 at the Shinjuku Koma Theater. ...