Joe Hisaishi Movies

2000 live-action Japanese film.

This program will give you an up-close look at some of the studio’s most famous films along with the music of STUDIO GHIBLI that continues to...

Fukuzawa Yukichi opens a school for samurai, who aim to learn Dutch language, most common for overseas trading. But when he was in Yokohama he...

Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by...

A brother and sister leave the big city to live with their veterinarian father when their mother is hospitalized. As they are adjusting to their new...

Making of documentary on the Hayao Miyazaki film "Ponyo".

Joe Hisaishi will handle a variety of film music, this simple structure of 9 Cello and piano, the concert live recording made at the Tokyo Opera...

Life and love stories of stunt men and women.

The story of a young city boy wanting to become the mahout, the elephant driver. Despite his master's belief that only karen tribe people are born to...

A grieving young mother employed at a video game company is recruited to test and train a new virtual world. She finds a character in this world of...

Stepping closer and closer to his retirement, Hayao Miyazaki has no other means, but to choose up a new director. Ghibli's given some creative...

In an unspecified time when epidemics run rampant, botanist Yan Guo and his fiance-assistant Baobao move to Moon Island, a nature reserve, to...

Joe Hisaishi in Budokan - Making of the Concert: The Big Screen

Based on the children's book by Sunada Hiroshi. Musuke "Shorty" Sato is a shortstop for the local junior baseball team, the Eggs, who is asked by...

First major English-language documentary profile of the cult Japanese actor/director, Takeshi Kitano. Featuring interviews with many of his regular...

The giant squid is a creature of legend and myth which, even in the 21st century, has never been seen alive. But now, an international team of...

Japanese pianist and composer Joe Hisaishi conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg at the Philharmonie de Paris, performing his Symphony...