Japanese multi-instrumentalist Eiko Ishibashi performs a live score for the Chicago debut of Gift

Even if Japanese songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Eiko Ishibashi collaborated with Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi only once, I’d be grateful. When I saw Hamaguchi’s celebrated 2021 movie, Drive My Car, at the Siskel Film Center (it won an Oscar for Best International Feature Film a couple months later), Ishibashi’s pensive, understated score charmed me completely. […]
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