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Musically, he found inspiration in jazz, the music of Japanese electro-pop pioneers the Yellow Magic Orchestra (which featured composer Ryuichi Sakamoto in its ranks) and American composers like Steve Reich, all key influences on his style in those early years and beyond. Animation figured early in his career, with scores for anime series’ such as 1974’s Hajime Ningen Gyatoruz (Gyatoruzu: The First Human) and 1976’s Robokko Beeton (Robot Child Beeton). He began his professional life as a music-score engraver, before establishing himself as a composer in the mid-1970s.

Best anime composer movie#

Growing up, he studied the violin, played brass and was a big movie fan, so it seems it was written in the stars that music and film would go on to play an important role in his life.

He had studied with esteemed anime composer Takeo Watanabe, graduating from the Kunitachi College of Music in the late 1960s. Tha latter was an early interest for the composer in his youth, still known then by his birth name Mamorou Fujisawa. Musically he transcends what we might typically associate with Japanese music, indeed while Hisaishi’s art honours his country’s musical heritage (both ancient and modern), it also draws inspiration from the western symphonic tradition, pop, jazz, electronic and new age music, not to mention minimalism. There’s more to Joe Hisaishi than the wide-eyed, symphonic-melodic splendour of his Studio Ghibli scores.