Who Is A Japanese Minimalist Composer with DVDs?

[SeanOhio]

I'm hoping someone here can name this guy or his films for me.

I saw a DVD at a friend's home last week (he's out of the country for Easter, so I can't ask him). This DVD had some sort of Japanese title on its cover--possibly an MGM DVD--and the film, or at least the few minutes I caught of it, had a series of images with minimalist music playing alongside the images. He's quite famous, but I can't find him on amazon.com, mgm,com, or anyplace.

Do you have any idea who this guy is?

[SeanOhio]

1. bump

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[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. Ryuichi Sakamoto?--composer and sometime actor?

Kitaro?--wrote the soundtrack for the documentary The Silk Road?

Tohru Takemitsu?--who wrote lots of movie soundtracks and orchestral works with loopy English titles?

[SeanOhio]

3. No, Sorry

Sadly, I don't think those are the composers. Thanks, though.

Anyway, these DVDs simply had bizarre images with this minimalist music playing all the time. The DVDs were MGM, I think, though I cannot find them on their site or amazon.com.