Kagami means ‘mirror’ in Japanese. In this mirror, the image of the composer Ryuichi Sakamoto is reflected back at you. And it’s completely astonishing.
One of the key performances in this year’s Manchester International Festival, it is all the more poignant because its creator is no longer with us. Sakamoto, composer of scores for movies like The Last Emperor and Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, for which he won the Oscar, died in March this year at the age of 71.
But yet here he is, sitting in front of us, thanks to ground-breaking ‘mixed reality’ technology from the production company Tin Drum, which worked with Sakamoto to bring Kagami - and its composer - to life.
