Ryuichi Sakamoto to Rating Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Subsequent Movie ‘Monster’

Legendary Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has signed on to jot down the music for Palme d’Or-winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s forthcoming function movie Monster (“Kaibutsu”), Tokyo-based manufacturing firm Gaga Company revealed Thursday.

Sakamoto will present newly written compositions in addition to a few of his pre-existing music for the movie, producers say. A musical polymath, Sakamoto made his movie debut with the long-lasting rating for Nagisa Ôshima’s Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), starring David Bowie. He later received an Oscar together with his music for Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Final Emperor (1987) and a Golden Globe nomination for his compositions for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant (2015). The partnership with Kore-eda marks his first work on a high-profile Japanese title in a while.

Monster can also be Kore-eda’s first Japanese movie since he received the Cannes Palme d’Or in 2018 with Shoplifters. It follows the director’s French movie The Fact, which opened the Venice Movie Competition in 2019, and his Korean title Dealer, launched earlier this yr.

Story particulars for Monster are being saved below wraps, however Gaga revealed Thursday that Sakura Ando, the breakout star of Shoplifters, will lead the brand new movie’s solid. Rounding out the solid are Nagayama Eita (Hokusai), Mitsuki Takahata (Japanese Women By no means Die), Akihiro Kakuta (Spring Has Come), Shido Nakamura (Twisted Justice), Yuko Tanaka (Midnight Diner), and youngster actors Soya Kurokawa and Hinata Hiiragi.

At present in post-production, Monster will launch in Japan on June 2, 2023. The discharge date units the movie up for a possible world premiere in Could at Cannes, the place Kore-eda is an everyday.

Monster would be the second film directed by Kore-eda that he didn’t additionally write himself, following Maborosi, which premiered on the Venice Movie Competition approach again in 1995. The brand new movie is scripted by Yuji Sakamoto, the author of such Japanese TV collection hits Mom, Lady and Matrimonial Chaos. Prolific writer-director Genki Kawamura, whose directorial effort A Hundred Flowers lately received greatest director on the San Sebastián pageant, is connected to Monster as its lead producer.