Mamoru Fujisawa, known professionally as Joe Hisaishi (born December 6, 195… Read Full Bio ↴Mamoru Fujisawa, known professionally as Joe Hisaishi (born December 6, 1950), is a composer and director known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981.
Possessing a stylistically distinct sound, Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, including minimalism, atonal music, experimental electronic, European classical, and Japanese classical. Lesser known are the other musical roles he plays; he is also a conductor, typesetter, author, arranger, and head of an orchestra. He is famous for his melodies using pentatonic scales and melodic chord progressions.
He is best known for his work with animator Hayao Miyazaki, having composed many scores for many of his films including Spirited Away (2001), Howl's Moving Castle (2004), Princess Mononoke (1997), My Neighbor Totoro (1988), and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984). He is also recognized for the soundtracks he has provided for filmmaker 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, including Dolls (2002), Kikujiro (1999), Hana-bi (1997), Kids Return (1996), and Sonatine (1993).
Joe Hisaishi was born in Nakano, Nagano, Japan as Mamoru Fujisawa. When he started to take violin lessons at age five, Hisaishi discovered his passion for music. Realizing his love, he attended the Kunitachi College of Music in 1969 to major in music composition. Hisaishi collaborated with minimalist artists as a typesetter, furthering his experience in the musical world.
As his works were becoming well known, Hisaishi formulated an alias inspired by Quincy Jones, an African-American musician and producer. Retranscribed in Japanese, "Quincy Jones" became "Joe Hisaishi." ("Quincy," pronounced "Kuishi" in Japanese, can be written using the same kanji in "Hisaishi"; "Joe" comes from "Jones.")
In 1983, with his new name, Hisaishi was recommended by a record company to create an album for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Hisaishi and the director of the animated film, Hayao Miyazaki, became great friends and would work together on many future projects. This big break led to Hisaishi's overwhelming success as a composer of film scores. In 1986, Laputa Castle in the Sky, and later, in the 1990s, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, were released. As Hisaishi strengthened his reputation as one of the budding anime industry's top musical contributors, his compositions (including eight theatrical films and one OAV) would proceed to become some of the very hallmarks of early anime in the 1980s and 1990s. Hisaishi also composed for such TV hits as Sasuga no Sarutobi, Two Down Full Base (both 1982), Sasrygar (1983), Futari Taka (1984) and Honō no Alpen Rose (1985). He also scored the sci-fi adventure Mospeada (1983), which was later reworked (without his music) into the third segment of Carl Macek's compilation, Robotech. Other films he scored included Arion, Totoro (1988), Venus Wars, Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), and Porco Rosso (1992).
As more exposure was given to Hisaishi and the anime industry, his career grew. He initiated a solo career, began to produce music, and created his own label (Wonder Land Inc.). A year later, the label released its first album, Pretender, in New York.
As a result of his work throughout the years, Hisaishi has won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Music five times—in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1999 and 2000. He also received the 48th Newcomer Award in 1997 from the Ministry of Education (Public Entertainment Section) among numerous other awards, being recognized as an influential figure in the Japanese film industry.
In 1998, he provided the soundtrack to the 1998 Winter Paralympics. The following year, he composed the music for the third installment in a series of popular computer-animated educational films about the human body.
In 2001, Hisaishi produced music for Takeshi Kitano's film, Brother, and Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece, Spirited Away. He also served as executive producer of the Night Fantasia 4 Movement at the Japan Expo in Fukushima 2001. On October 6, Hisaishi made his debut as a film director in Quartet, having also written both its music and script. The film received excellent reviews at the Montreal Film Festival. His first soundtrack for a foreign film, Le Petit Poucet, was released in the same year.
Another Miyazaki film, Howl's Moving Castle, for which Hisaishi composed the score, was released on November 20, 2004 in Japan. From November 3 to November 29, 2004, Hisaishi embarked on his "Joe Hisaishi Freedom – Piano Stories 2004" tour with Canadian musicians. In 2005, he composed the soundtrack for the Korean film, Welcome to Dongmakgol. He also partook in Korea's historically landmarked big budget drama series production by composing the soundtrack for Korea's MBC drama series, The Legend ("The Story of the First King's Four Gods"), which released in 2007. Hisaishi has a large fan base in Korea due to the popularity of Miyazaki films.
In 2006, Hisaishi released a studio album, Asian X.T.C., the compositions of which demonstrated a significantly eclectic and contemporary Eastern style. The erhu player of the Chinese band 12 Girls Band Zhan Li Jun played in a live concert featuring music from that album. The following year, he composed and recorded the soundtrack for Frederic Lepage's film, "Sunny and the Elephant" and the Miyazaki film, "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea", both released in 2008, as well as the score for Jiang Wen's film, "The Sun Also Rises".
In 2008, Hisaishi composed soundtracks for Academy Award-winning film Okuribito (a.k.a. Departures) as well as for I'd Rather Be a Shellfish, a post-World War II war crimes trial drama which is based on the 1959 Tetsutaro Kato novel and film currently being remade and directed by Katsuo Fukuzawa, starring Masahiro Nakai and Yukie Nakama.
Hisaishi also released a new solo album in early 2009 featuring tracks from "Shellfish" and "Departures".
Possessing a stylistically distinct sound, Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, including minimalism, atonal music, experimental electronic, European classical, and Japanese classical. Lesser known are the other musical roles he plays; he is also a conductor, typesetter, author, arranger, and head of an orchestra. He is famous for his melodies using pentatonic scales and melodic chord progressions.
He is best known for his work with animator Hayao Miyazaki, having composed many scores for many of his films including Spirited Away (2001), Howl's Moving Castle (2004), Princess Mononoke (1997), My Neighbor Totoro (1988), and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984). He is also recognized for the soundtracks he has provided for filmmaker 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, including Dolls (2002), Kikujiro (1999), Hana-bi (1997), Kids Return (1996), and Sonatine (1993).
Joe Hisaishi was born in Nakano, Nagano, Japan as Mamoru Fujisawa. When he started to take violin lessons at age five, Hisaishi discovered his passion for music. Realizing his love, he attended the Kunitachi College of Music in 1969 to major in music composition. Hisaishi collaborated with minimalist artists as a typesetter, furthering his experience in the musical world.
As his works were becoming well known, Hisaishi formulated an alias inspired by Quincy Jones, an African-American musician and producer. Retranscribed in Japanese, "Quincy Jones" became "Joe Hisaishi." ("Quincy," pronounced "Kuishi" in Japanese, can be written using the same kanji in "Hisaishi"; "Joe" comes from "Jones.")
In 1983, with his new name, Hisaishi was recommended by a record company to create an album for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Hisaishi and the director of the animated film, Hayao Miyazaki, became great friends and would work together on many future projects. This big break led to Hisaishi's overwhelming success as a composer of film scores. In 1986, Laputa Castle in the Sky, and later, in the 1990s, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, were released. As Hisaishi strengthened his reputation as one of the budding anime industry's top musical contributors, his compositions (including eight theatrical films and one OAV) would proceed to become some of the very hallmarks of early anime in the 1980s and 1990s. Hisaishi also composed for such TV hits as Sasuga no Sarutobi, Two Down Full Base (both 1982), Sasrygar (1983), Futari Taka (1984) and Honō no Alpen Rose (1985). He also scored the sci-fi adventure Mospeada (1983), which was later reworked (without his music) into the third segment of Carl Macek's compilation, Robotech. Other films he scored included Arion, Totoro (1988), Venus Wars, Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), and Porco Rosso (1992).
As more exposure was given to Hisaishi and the anime industry, his career grew. He initiated a solo career, began to produce music, and created his own label (Wonder Land Inc.). A year later, the label released its first album, Pretender, in New York.
As a result of his work throughout the years, Hisaishi has won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Music five times—in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1999 and 2000. He also received the 48th Newcomer Award in 1997 from the Ministry of Education (Public Entertainment Section) among numerous other awards, being recognized as an influential figure in the Japanese film industry.
In 1998, he provided the soundtrack to the 1998 Winter Paralympics. The following year, he composed the music for the third installment in a series of popular computer-animated educational films about the human body.
In 2001, Hisaishi produced music for Takeshi Kitano's film, Brother, and Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece, Spirited Away. He also served as executive producer of the Night Fantasia 4 Movement at the Japan Expo in Fukushima 2001. On October 6, Hisaishi made his debut as a film director in Quartet, having also written both its music and script. The film received excellent reviews at the Montreal Film Festival. His first soundtrack for a foreign film, Le Petit Poucet, was released in the same year.
Another Miyazaki film, Howl's Moving Castle, for which Hisaishi composed the score, was released on November 20, 2004 in Japan. From November 3 to November 29, 2004, Hisaishi embarked on his "Joe Hisaishi Freedom – Piano Stories 2004" tour with Canadian musicians. In 2005, he composed the soundtrack for the Korean film, Welcome to Dongmakgol. He also partook in Korea's historically landmarked big budget drama series production by composing the soundtrack for Korea's MBC drama series, The Legend ("The Story of the First King's Four Gods"), which released in 2007. Hisaishi has a large fan base in Korea due to the popularity of Miyazaki films.
In 2006, Hisaishi released a studio album, Asian X.T.C., the compositions of which demonstrated a significantly eclectic and contemporary Eastern style. The erhu player of the Chinese band 12 Girls Band Zhan Li Jun played in a live concert featuring music from that album. The following year, he composed and recorded the soundtrack for Frederic Lepage's film, "Sunny and the Elephant" and the Miyazaki film, "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea", both released in 2008, as well as the score for Jiang Wen's film, "The Sun Also Rises".
In 2008, Hisaishi composed soundtracks for Academy Award-winning film Okuribito (a.k.a. Departures) as well as for I'd Rather Be a Shellfish, a post-World War II war crimes trial drama which is based on the 1959 Tetsutaro Kato novel and film currently being remade and directed by Katsuo Fukuzawa, starring Masahiro Nakai and Yukie Nakama.
Hisaishi also released a new solo album in early 2009 featuring tracks from "Shellfish" and "Departures".
さくらんぼの実る頃
久石譲 Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'さくらんぼの実る頃' by these artists:
Tokiko Kato Quand nous chanterons le temps des cerises, Et gai rossignol…
フラン さくらんぼ実る頃 鳥たちは浮かれて歌うよ 誰かに恋して 愛する人の腕に抱かれて うれしさにふるえてた 君は赤く頬を染めて…
久木田薫 さくらんぼ実る頃 鳥たちは浮かれて歌うよ 誰かに恋して 愛する人の腕に抱かれて うれしさにふるえてた 君は赤く頬を染めて…
加藤登紀子 さくらんぼ実る頃 鳥たちは浮かれて歌うよ 誰かに恋して 愛する人の腕に抱かれて うれしさにふるえてた 君は赤く頬を染めて…
岸洋子 さくらんぼ実る頃 鳥たちは浮かれて歌うよ 誰かに恋して 愛する人の腕に抱かれて うれしさにふるえてた 君は赤く頬を染めて…
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Always With Me Yondeiru Mune no Dokoka Okude Itsumo Kokoro Odoru Yume wo Mi…
Carrying You Ano chiheisen kagayaku no wa Doko ka ni kimi o kakushite…
Chorus: Carrying You あの地平線輝くのは どこかに君をかくしているから たくさんの灯がなつかしいのは あのどれかひとつに 君かいるから さあ …
HIGHLIGHTS FROM CASTLE IN THE SKY あの地平線輝くのは どこかに君をかくしているから たくさんの灯がなつかしいのは あのどれかひとつに 君かいるから さあ …
Laputa the Castle in the Sky あの地平線輝くのは どこかに君をかくしているから たくさんの灯がなつかしいのは あのどれかひとつに 君かいるから さあ …
Laputa: The castle in the sky あの地平線輝くのは どこかに君をかくしているから たくさんの灯がなつかしいのは あのどれかひとつに 君かいるから さあ …
Maigo さがしても みつからない まいごの子 はなをつみに いったの ふりむかないで とんぼを おいかけて いったのかしら おば…
Sampo あるこう あるこう わたしはげんき あるくの だいすき どんどんいこう さかみち トンネル くさっぱら いっぽんばしに …
Tonari no Totoro トトロトトロトトロトトロ だれかがこっそり 小 路に木の実うずめて ちっさな芽生えたら 秘密の暗号 森へのパスポート …
はじまり はじまり あなたに触れた よろこびが 深く 深く このからだの 端々に しみ込んでゆく ずっと 遠く なにも わからなくなっても…
セピア色の写真 セピア色の 二人の写真 いつもなぜか 悲しく揺れてる 強く 強く 抱きしめあった 今も 今も 震えているよ... 側に…
人生のメリーゴーランド 回れ 星のように 歌え 花火のように 向かい風にも止められない メリーゴーランド ― 夕焼け見渡せる 楽屋口のドアは…
懺悔 想いなくして何も生まれず 意図なくして意味も生まれず ただ生きるのか 時代を越えて伝わる想いは 命の結晶 今想ふ あな…
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ed p
What a beautiful song. A masterpiece.
Takoyaki
当然なのかもしれないけど、歌詞もみずに異国の歌をちゃんと歌えているのが凄い。流石プロだ
&KO Artiste
Superbe! J'aime aussi beaucoup vos chansons en japonais... Revolution... et surtout l'indémodable shiretoko no ryuju, magnifique.
ΚΑΙΚΙΛΙΑ ΙΓΓΛΕΣΗ
ΥΠΕΡΟΧΟ ! ...ΕΥΑΙΣΘΗΣΙΑ, ΒRAVO ! ΠΟΛΛΑ ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΩ! FROM GREECE...
十六夜十七夜
加藤さんのハスキーな声質がまた曲の雰囲気にバッチリ合ってて、ところどころかすれるようにつけられた強弱がすごく色っぽいんだよなぁ。
胸の林檎
紅の豚の良さがわかる年齢になりました
バレリーナ
私も♥️
鶴亀
わかる
時田シロウ
子供の頃はポルコがかっこいいなぁって
思ってたけど
大人になると違う良さに気づく
小川和子
紅の豚良かったです、。
所所に這入るがっきょくのセンスがさすがですね！
また見てみたいです。DVDを買わないと駄目かな。