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Films scored by Joe Hisaishi

  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)One thousand years after the Seven Days of Fire, a vast forest swarms with giant mutant insects. The air carries poison that kills any human who breathes it…
  • Castle in the SkyOn the 15th of June 1985, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata founded Studio Ghibli in Tokyo. The new studio emerged from the commercial success of Nausicaä of…
  • My Neighbor TotoroIn 1950s Japan, a university professor named Tatsuo Kusakabe moves his two daughters into an old house near a hospital. His wife Yasuko stays there to…
  • Kiki's Delivery ServiceIn 1987, Group Fudosha approached Kadono's publishers to adapt the novel into a feature film. The studio sought either Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata for…
  • Spirited AwayTen-year-old Chihiro Ogino and her parents Akio and Yūko travel to their new home. Akio takes a shortcut through a tunnel leading to what appears to be an…
  • The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (film)In 1960, Isao Takahata prepared a potential adaptation of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter for Toei Animation. That project never came to fruition.
  • Princess MononokeHayao Miyazaki composed the preliminary ideas for what would become Princess Mononoke in 1980 after releasing his first film, The Castle of Cagliostro.
  • PonyoA five-year-old boy named Sōsuke cuts his finger while shattering a glass jar on the shore of a small fishing town. A goldfish-like creature named Brunhilde…
  • The Wind RisesHayao Miyazaki began conceiving the story of The Wind Rises in 2008, marking his first feature film since Ponyo. He published a manga series based on this…
  • Porco RossoHayao Miyazaki began work on Porco Rosso in 1989 with a manga titled Hikōtei Jidai. The project started as a planned short film for Japan Airlines to show…
  • The Boy and the HeronHayao Miyazaki stood before a press conference in Tokyo on the 14th of September 2013 and declared his retirement from feature animation.
  • Howl's Moving Castle (film)Studio Ghibli announced the production of two films in September 2001. The second project was an adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones' novel Howl's Moving Castle.