But if the earthquake served to redirect Sakamoto's attention to Japan, it also re-focused the conflicts between nature and culture, man and technology that have driven his work since he emerged in the late Seventies with the futuristic techno-trio Yellow Magic Orchestra. For more than 30 years his projects with a host of international names (the 1983 film Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence in which he starred with David Bowie his Oscar-winning score for Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor High Heels for Pedro Almodóvar albums featuring Iggy Pop, Brian Wilson, David Byrne) have always appeared to relate to the world at large rather than domestic issues. Sakamoto, now 59 and silver haired, impossibly cool and handsome, is one of Japan's most important cultural exports.
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