![]() ![]() I’d call him the John Williams of anime music, but I think that would be selling him short!īorn in Nakano in 1950, Hisaishi was a music and film buff from an early age – as in, he started learning violin when he was four and watched 300 movies a year as a kid! He studied music composition at the Kunitachi College of Music in 1969 and was influenced by minimalist composers like Phillip Glass, as well as popular music from Japan at the time. Joe Hisaishi has composed the soundtrack to nearly every Ghibli classic, meaning he’s probably made you cry at least once. They vary in tone and genre, but they all have the most breathtaking hand-drawn animation in history, deep themes about nature and humanity, strong female protagonists, and some of the best music ever put onto film. Studio Ghibli films are my antidote to nihilism.
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