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Front Row: Japan Special: Ryuichi Sakomoto, Japanese Short Stories, Sou Fujimoto

Japan Special: Ryuichi Sakomoto, Japanese Short Stories, Sou Fujimoto

28/06/2018

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Japan Special: Ryuichi Sakomoto, Japanese Short Stories, Sou Fujimoto

Ryuichi Sakomoto on his extraordinary career in music and beyond.

Ryuichi Sakomoto on his inspirations, Sou Fujimoto on bringing nature into architecture, plus Japanese short stories and novel recommendations.

A Japanese-themed edition of Front Row as the Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, whose scores include Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and The Last Emperor, talks to Stig about being inspired by nature, and how he came back from treatment for throat cancer to write the music for The Revenant.

The editor of The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, Jay Rubin, tells how he curated the selection and reflects on his career as one of Haruki Murakami's main translators. And Junko Takekawa, Senior Arts Programme Officer at the Japan Foundation and a guest curator at this year's Cheltenham Festival of Literature, selects some of her favourite Japanese novels. 

The architect Sou Fujimoto describes how the boundaries between nature and buildings, inside and outside, inspire his work - and reveals the artistic potential of a pile of crisps!

Presenter: Stig Abell
Producer: Sarah Johnson.

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