Joe Hisaishi

Yeah, a legend.

And, um, yeah, a lot of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Joe Hisaishi, a lot of indie rock.

Like-

Yeah

Yeah

... uh, Hisaishi, Hisayashi-

Mm-hmm

... did the music for this, and, uh, did a lot of- does a lot of the Studio Ghibli music, I believe.

Yeah.

As with all of Miyazaki's films, Joe Hisaishi composed the film's score.

Miyazaki did not give Hisaishi the script or storyboard.

Instead, he waited until the film was completed and showed it to him to let him have free rein.

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Our series themes are mashed up from Joe Hisaishi's scores for the films of Studio Ghibli.

The main track in our intro is The Path of the Wind from My Neighbor Totoro, and the song you're hearing right now is Bygone Days from the Porco Rosso soundtrack.

Yeah.

A little Joe Hisaishi-

Yeah

... et cetera.

Oh, oh.

Uh, the movie was written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, uh, as to be expected.

[laughs] And the music is by Joe Hisaishi, and it is very good.

There's also singing people.

Yeah.

I mean, Joe Hisaishi, one of the goats for a reason.

Yeah.

All right.

This is what it is.

Like when I say Grave of the Fireflies, obviously, sorry, when I say Studio Ghibli and music, you think of Joe Hisaishi, right? Joe Hisaishi, the original composer for many of the works over there.

Well, this is one of the few films where it's fully composed by someone that's not Joe Hisaishi.

You see what I mean? Say that again? It's a film that...

Whose entire music is not by Joey Saishi.

I simply cannot.

It would just be Joe Hisaishi soundtracks for Miyazaki movies.

What did you have down, Troy?

Spider-Man 2 is the best.

He seems to have a sense of all of this, but it's not until I, like, show him what it is that he's like, 'Oh, yeah, that's what I wanted.'"

You know, it's, uh, later in the production history, Joe Hisaishi talks about this.

Yeah.

I think that-

Of course.

Takahata really labored over who to hire to compose the film's score, and production held several meetings to discuss names.

But the only person who came up repeatedly was Joe Hisaishi, who is a fam- who of course composed all of Miyazaki's films.

And importantly worth noting, was introduced to Miyazaki by Takahata on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, which Takahata produced.

metal song you would score in this.

Where is Meshuggah going to replace Joe Hisaishi right now? Is that what you're about to tell me?

No, they're both extremely talented, but they just don't replace one another.

The way, honestly, are you familiar with the term DSBM? No.

It sounds like bubbles scenes.

And then also like this beautiful flowing orchestra of Nobuo Uematsu, Joe Hisaishi inspired kind of could put you right into that Studio Ghibli classic Final Fantasy sound could have been an overworld theme from Final Fantasy three or four, but instead, He did this with it.

Yeah.

So you're