ARTISTJoe Hisaishi

Joe Hisaishi is a Japanese composer whose body of work comprises nearly 100 film scores and solo albums. His compositions draw inspiration from the canon of American minimalist music, experimental electronic music, and European and Japanese classical music. He has scored all but one of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli films, including three of the five highest-grossing anime films worldwide.

Hisaishi has worked with Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, as well as Takeshi Kitano. He has won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Music eight times and received the Japan Medal of Honour in 2009. He composed the soundtracks for two Academy Award-winning films: Departures (2008) and Spirited Away (2002).