Joe Hisaishi Film Scores Compilation

[flowrs4ophelia]

The work Joe Hisaishi has done for all of Hayao Miyazaki's movies alone has made him one of my favorite film composers. I actually discovered these masterpieces of animation that I love so much because of the music. I'd heard such good things about the score for Princess Mononoke that I bought the album before seeing the movie, then became more interested in seeing it because of the great score, and it all progressed from there.

Some of Miyazaki's gigantically imaginative films are literally like nothing else you've ever seen and can be almost alienatingly bizarre. But with the music, Hisaishi is always able to give these fantastic worlds of his a sense of warmth, playfulness, or poignant emotion, helping to give the story heart so we can identify with it. When I first saw the scene in Mononoke where the gorgeous "Adagio of Life and Death" plays, I was no longer distracted by things like how freaking weird-looking that deer thing was, but completely engaged in what was happening and suddenly near to tears. The scene on the train in Spirited Away, which lasts the whole time with no dialogue, may be the most strangely beautiful and arresting few minutes of a movie I've ever seen, but with the volume turned down the effect of it would be nothing.

There are several Miyazaki movies that are represented on this mix very little or not at all. For the most part, what ended up on here was just all my favorite tracks from these scores which I couldn't bear the thought of not including rather than selections that show how Hisaishi's music has changed over the years, and most of them are more recent and from the time by which his style had developed into what he's probably known best for. At least everything sounds more like it belongs together on a compilation this way.









01 The Dragon Boy (Spirited Away)
02 Main Theme - The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (Castle In the Sky)
03 The Journey To the West (Princess Mononoke)
04 The Stink Spirit (SA)
05 Stones Glowing In the Darkness (CitS)
06 Opening (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind)
07 Sky Stroll (Howl's Moving Castle)
08 Princess Mononoke Theme (PM)
09 The Bathhouse (SA)
10 Dola and the Pirates (CitS)
11 The Tatara Women Work Song (PM)
12 Sootballs (SA)
13 Secret Cave (HMC)
14 Lady Eboshi (PM)
15 Kodamas (PM)
16 It's Hard Work (SA)
17 Vanity and Friendship (HMC)
18 A Street Brawl (CitS)
19 Adagio of Life and Death (PM)
20 The Sixth Station (SA)
21 The Destruction of Laputa (CitS)
22 The Eternal Tree of Life (CitS)
23 The Legend of Ashitaka Theme (PM)


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Comments

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

OMG!!!

Bless you for life!!!

I had been looking for the score for Nausicaa for years. I first saw this film when disney released the hacked version of it. My oldest daughter watched it over and over. I found out later ,when trying to buy a copy, that Disney messed it up so bad that it was pulled, but that it would be re-released in its original form. I worried that the score, which I love, would be changed. Imgaine my squee when I put the dvd in and that beautiful song began.

Miyazaki owns me. His fims are the best that anime has to offer, in my opinion. and not just mine-since Spirited Away (my other favorite) was awarded the Oscar for best animated film.

The scene on the train in Spirited Away, which lasts the whole time with no dialogue, may be the most strangely beautiful and arresting few minutes of a movie I've ever seen

You and me both. Thanks for the download, I am forever in your debt!

[sara-mermaid.livejournal.com]

Holy... thank you so much for this! Oh, I'm excited now. :) Thank you so much, some of these I have wanted to have for years but had no idea where to look or how to get hold of them.

THANK YOU

[firehead30.livejournal.com]

My son and my middle daughter are HUGE Miyazaki fans. Spirited Away is my favorite of his along with Princess Mononke. Such excellent work.

I love what you say here The scene on the train in Spirited Away, which lasts the whole time with no dialogue, may be the most strangely beautiful and arresting few minutes of a movie I've ever seen

And the music is what made the entire movie works...but what you say here encapsulate it all so well. But with the music, Hisaishi is always able to give these fantastic worlds of his a sense of warmth, playfulness, or poignant emotion, helping to give the story heart so we can identify with it. When I first saw the scene in Mononoke where the gorgeous "Adagio of Life and Death" plays, I was no longer distracted by things like how freaking weird-looking that deer thing was, but completely engaged in what was happening and suddenly near to tears.

Thank you so much for this post.

Re: THANK YOU

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

You mean MY son.

I'm telling you, Fire, he's my kid!

Re: THANK YOU

[firehead30.livejournal.com]

our love child :-)

[kindlin.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[eight-am.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for this. :D I think it is wonderful that you put this together and put it up for many people like us, Miyazaki / Hisaishi / Studio Ghibli Fans, to enjoy. I appreciate it a lot. ^^

[oleandervyce.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, thank you so much for sharing this! <333

[lunylucy.livejournal.com]

Coolness.

I've seen HMC and SA. What would you recommend I see next from his films?

[flowrs4ophelia.livejournal.com]

Hmm, it's always hard to pick one to recommend because they're all pretty different. If you're going to watch one on a day you feel like you could handle something a little long and intense, I'd say go with PM. Being an action movie, it's pretty different from most of his other stuff and is more serious, but it's definitely one everybody must see. But as far as something a little lighter, I'm really particularly fond of Castle In the Sky myself. The animation is kind of old school (still great for its time, though), but it's really cute and funny.

[pipichan.livejournal.com]

thank you! ^^

[slytherin-gypsy.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for sharing this!

[blienky27.livejournal.com]

Oh, GOd, I love you so much right now.

I don't suppose you have any Totoro music, either, do you? I've been looking for some forever.

[flowrs4ophelia.livejournal.com]

I don't have anything from Totoro but I've listened to the music here: http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks/2895

I think that site has several of the soundtracks for download, but you can only take the songs individually and I just haven't had the time and patience to get everything I don't have yet. :)

[blienky27.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks for the site. I actually went hunting for it after I asked you, and I found a place where you can mass-download soundtracks. It's http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/my-neighbor-totoro-original-soundtrack
if you're interested. But that site oyu gave me has a bunch of tracks I don't own on it.

[starsburn.livejournal.com]

BEST IDEA EVER!
Gosh, thank you so much for sharing! I really appreciate it :DD
♥

[windy-smiles.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for sharing this mix! :)

[lilithvermilion.livejournal.com]

Oh bless you for life. Seriously.

[styromgalleries.livejournal.com]

Wow! This looks amazing! Thanks so much!

[bluelittlegirl.livejournal.com]

Love, love love. Thank you for sharing. As soon as I can magically make memory appear, I will be downloading. I haven't yet seen them all, but I shall, because I love his work.

[flowrs4ophelia.livejournal.com]

I actually haven't even seen all of Porco Rosso or Totoro myself. Shame on me! But it's really hard for me to find them for rent for some reason. I may just have to buy them.

[tragic-elegance.livejournal.com]

Thank you lots. <3

[copernica3.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. This is fantastic! Thank you so much!

[soliloquie.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[llivla.livejournal.com]

holy cow! i'm definitely downloading this later--i can never find any of this stuff! you are AMAZING!

i hate to be a brat, but you wouldn't happen to have "Always With Me" by Youmi Kimura from the ending Spirited Away song would you?

[flowrs4ophelia.livejournal.com]

Whoops, sorry I took so long to reply to you! I can't help you with that one because my Spirited Away CD is so scratched up I can't copy some of the songs. But someone else told me about this site where you can download a bunch of the soundtracks so you might be able to find it there: http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/browse/all

[llivla.livejournal.com]

heck no that's fine! i love you for the link (it worked!), and i love you for this mix!!!

i also know what you mean when you talk about scratched cds, half the songs i ask for are because my own got that way, lol.

[leucocrystal]

This is absolutely wonderful, thank you! I am a huge, HUGE fan of Miyazaki's films, and Hisaishi's music completes and complements them all perfectly. ♥

[goodtoast.livejournal.com]

This looks. So. Good.

I am incredibly happy that you've put this together because seriously, Joe Hisaishi is far too underrated as a composer. He needs more love. Yeah,...he's popular in Japan, but psh. Americans watch these films, we should know his name too!

Have you heard the music for Pocco Rosso? It's one of my favorites but for the life of me, I can't remember any of the music in it. Really, I should get off my duff and put the film in the telly^^

[goodtoast.livejournal.com]

Gah. I hate spelling. Porco Rosso ; )

[leap-at-sun.livejournal.com]

This is amazing, thank you for this!

[baegopa.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for doing this fanmix!

I almost cried listening to some of the tunes, so much memories ♥

[zeft.livejournal.com]

What an awesome mix. Definitely grabbing.

[taste-of-water.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard all of these yet but ITA with you about the train scene in Spirited Away it wouldn't be such a good movie without the soundtrack, image and sound really compliment each other beautifully

thank you SO much for putting this together :)

danni

[chickosaurusrex.livejournal.com]

:D Thank you so very much for putting this together!

[bleutopia.livejournal.com]

Love hayao movies! specially howl's moving castle =D
thank you so much :3

[flowrs4ophelia.livejournal.com]

You have to get yourself the Symphonic Album if you haven't done so already. Even better then the original soundrack.

Yeah, I do have that one as well. :) It's very good.

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

I kiss you.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Snagging this mix after seeing the link on swashbuckler332 - it looks absolutely lovely; thanks for sharing!

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I've watched several of these and really like a lot of the music, so...awesome mix.

[kinky-carter.livejournal.com]

Downloading, thanks! :D

[redeemtheyears.livejournal.com]

I would love to download this, but the link is broken. Could someone please fix it? Thank you very much!