Mamoru Fujisawa, known professionally as Joe Hisaishi, is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981.
28 Facts About Joe Hisaishi
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Joe Hisaishi has worked as a music engraver and arranger.
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Joe Hisaishi has been associated with director and animator Hayao Miyazaki since 1984, having written scores for all but one of Miyazaki's films.
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Joe Hisaishi is recognized for his music for filmmaker 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, including A Scene at the Sea, Sonatine, Kids Return, Hana-bi, Kikujiro, Brother, and Dolls, and for the video game series Ni no Kuni.
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Joe Hisaishi was a student of anime composer Takeo Watanabe.
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Joe Hisaishi was born in Nakano, Nagano, Japan, as Mamoru Fujisawa.
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Joe Hisaishi started learning violin at the Violin School Suzuki Shinichi at the age of four, and began watching hundreds of movies each year with his father.
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Joe Hisaishi attended the Kunitachi College of Music in 1969, where he majored in music composition, and collaborated with minimalist artists as a music engraver.
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In 1974 Joe Hisaishi wrote music for the anime series Gyatoruzu, and composed some of his other early works, under his given name.
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Joe Hisaishi composed for Sasuga no Sarutobi and Futari Daka.
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Joe Hisaishi developed his music from minimalist ideas and expanded toward orchestral work.
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In 1983, Joe Hisaishi was recommended by Tokuma, who had published Information, to create an image album for Hayao Miyazaki's animated film Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
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In 1985, Joe Hisaishi founded his own recording studio, Wonder Station.
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Joe Hisaishi's compositions become well-known as a style associated with early anime.
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Joe Hisaishi composed for such TV and movie hits as Sasuga no Sarutobi, Two Down Full Base, Tonde Mon Pe and the anime Tekuno porisu 21C, Oz no mahotsukai, Sasuraiger, Futari Taka, and Hono no Alpen Rose.
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In 1998, Joe Hisaishi provided the soundtrack to the 1998 Winter Paralympics.
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In 2001, Joe Hisaishi produced music for another Kitano film, Brother, and Hayao Miyazaki's animated film Spirited Away.
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Joe Hisaishi executive-produced the Night Fantasia 4 Movement at the Japan Expo in Fukushima 2001.
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The next year, Joe Hisaishi composed and recorded the soundtrack for Frederic Lepage's film Sunny and the Elephant, and for Miyazaki's film Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, and the score for Jiang Wen's film The Sun Also Rises.
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In 2008, Joe Hisaishi composed soundtracks for the Academy Award-winning film Departures.
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Joe Hisaishi scored I'd Rather Be a Shellfish, a post-World War II war-crime trial drama, based on the 1959 Tetsutaro Kato novel and film currently being remade and directed by Katsuo Fukuzawa, starring Masahiro Nakai and Yukie Nakama.
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In 2009, Joe Hisaishi released a solo album featuring tracks from Shellfish and Departures.
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In 2016, Joe Hisaishi was appointed art director of the Nagano City Art Museum.
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In May 2018, Joe Hisaishi performed five sold-out concerts in his North American debut in California, USA at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts with Symphony Silicon Valley.
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Joe Hisaishi wrote the soundtrack for the TBS Nichiyo Gekijo drama In This Corner of the World.
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On February 21,2020, the album Dream Songs: The Essential Joe Hisaishi was released through Decca Gold, featuring 28 compositions from Hisaishi's career.
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In 2022, Joe Hisaishi worked on the Royal Shakespeare Company theatre production of 'My Neighbour Totoro'.
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On 30 March 2023, Joe Hisaishi signed an exclusive recording agreement with Deutsche Grammophon, even though he released several recordings on the label previously.