Before he dies, the Oscar-winning Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto wants to do just one thing: "To record the perfect album. The actor-musician burst onto the international scene with his soundtrack for the 1983 film "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence" in which he also played a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp commandant opposite his friend David Bowie. The rock legend's death earlier this year shook Sakamoto badly, having only just survived throat cancer himself.
