The Beautiful, Unpredictable Life of Ryuichi Sakamoto

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In late March, Ryuichi Sakamoto, who was hailed as “arguably the best-known and most successful Japanese musician in the world,” died at the age of seventy-one. The cause was complications from…

Class, Care, and Transitions in “Nauha”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The director Pratham Khurana wanted to tell the protagonist’s coming-of-age story in a way that shows how proximity to death can change the people who go on living. The work of…