Mamoru Fujisawa (藤澤 守, Fujisawa Mamoru, born December 6, 1950), known professionally as Joe Hisaishi (久石 譲, Hisaishi Jō), is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981. Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, including minimalist, experimental electronic, Western classical, and Japanese classical. He has also worked as a music engraver and arranger. He has been associated with director and animator Hayao Miyazaki since 1984, having written scores for all but one of Miyazaki's films.

Filmography

• 2025A Big Bold Beautiful Journey — Original Music Composer
• Leviathan — Songs
• 2025Summer — Original Music Composer
• 2024Opus Carré — Music
• 2024Silent Love — Original Music Composer
• 2024Zahia Ziouani & Mourad Merzouki : Les Nouveaux Mondes — Original Music Composer
• 2023Spirited Away: Live on Stage — Original Music Composer
• 2023The Boy and the Heron — Original Music Composer, Conductor
• 2022Hisaishi Symphonique — Self - Conductor, Musician
• 2021A Summer Trip — Original Music Composer
• 2021Dear Alice — Music
• 2021コンサート2021 in ザ・シンフォニーホール
• 2019Children of the Sea — Original Music Composer
• 2019NiNoKuni — Original Music Composer
• 2018Boro the Caterpillar — Original Music Composer
• 2018Deep Ocean: Descent into the Mariana Trench — Original Music Composer
• 2018Extreme der Tiefsee - Abysses — Original Music Composer
• In This Corner of the World — Original Music Composer
• 2018The Forest of Wool and Steel — Theme Song Performance
• 2018Till the End of the World — Original Music Composer
• 2018What a Wonderful Family! 3 — Original Music Composer
• 2017Flower and Sword — Original Music Composer
• 2017Our Time Will Come — Original Music Composer
• 2017What a Wonderful Family! 2 — Original Music Composer
• 2016Deep Ocean: Lights in the Abyss — Music
• 2016What a Wonderful Family! — Original Music Composer
• 2015Those of the Treetops and Heaven — Music
• 2014Snow on The Blades — Original Music Composer
• 2014The Little House — Original Music Composer
• 2013Legends of the Deep: The Giant Squid — Music
• 2013Miracle Apples — Original Music Composer
• Onna Nobunaga — Original Music Composer
• 2013The Tale of The Princess Kaguya — Original Music Composer
• 2013The Wind Rises — Original Music Composer
• 2013Tokyo Family — Original Music Composer
• 2012Casting Blossoms to the Sky — Original Music Composer
• 2012Sweetheart Chocolate — Music
• 2012Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer — Original Music Composer
• 2011Rest on Your Shoulder — Original Music Composer
• 2010Let the Bullets Fly — Original Music Composer
• 2010Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess — Original Music Composer
• 2010Ocean Heaven — Original Music Composer
• 2010Villain — Original Music Composer
• 2009A Tale of Ululu's Wonderful Forest — Original Music Composer
• Clouds Over the Hill — Original Music Composer
• 2009Joe Hisaishi in Budokan - Making of the Concert: The Big Screen
• 200825th Anniversary Studio Ghibli Concert — Self - Conductor, Music Arranger
• 2008Departures — Original Music Composer
• 2008I Want to Be a Shellfish — Original Music Composer
• 2008Ponyo — Original Music Composer
• 2008Sunny and the Elephant — Original Music Composer
• 2007A Tale of Mari and Three Puppies — Original Music Composer
• The Legend — Music
• 2007The Postmodern Life of My Aunt — Original Music Composer
• 2007The Sun Also Rises — Original Music Composer
• 2005A Chinese Tall Story — Original Music Composer
• 2005Welcome to Dongmakgol — Original Music Composer
• 2005Yamato — Original Music Composer
• 2004Howl's Moving Castle — Original Music Composer
• 2003When the Last Sword Is Drawn — Original Music Composer
• 2002"The Ornithopter Story: Fly, Hiyodori Tengu!" — Original Music Composer
• 2002Dolls — Original Music Composer
• 2002Imaginary Flying Machines — Original Music Composer
• 2002Mei and the Kittenbus — Original Music Composer
• 2002The Invention of Imaginary Machines of Destruction — Original Music Composer
• 2001Quartet — Screenplay, Director, Original Music Composer
• 2001Spirited Away — Original Music Composer
• 2001Tom Thumb — Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
• 2000As the River Flows — Music Supervisor
• 2000Brother — Original Music Composer
• 2000First Love — Original Music Composer
• 1999Kikujiro — Original Music Composer
• 1998Diary of Early Winter Shower — Original Music Composer
• 1997Fireworks — Original Music Composer
• 1997Parasite Eve — Original Music Composer
• 1997Princess Mononoke — Original Music Composer
• 1996Kids Return — Original Music Composer
• Piano — Music
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time — Original Music Composer
• 1994Turning Point — Original Music Composer
• 1993Haruka, Nostalgia — Original Music Composer
• 1993Samurai Kids — Original Music Composer
• 1993Sonatine — Original Music Composer
• 1992Porco Rosso — Original Music Composer
• 1992The Rocking Horsemen — Original Music Composer
• 1991A Scene at the Sea — Original Music Composer
• 1991Chizuko's Younger Sister — Original Music Composer
• 1991Deer Friend — Music
• 1991Fukuzawa Yukichi — Original Music Composer
• 1990Network Baby — Original Music Composer
• 1990Tasmania Story — Music
• 1990The Silver Twilight — Music
• 1989Free and Easy 2 — Compositor
• 1989Kiki's Delivery Service — Original Music Composer
• 1989Venus Wars — Original Music Composer
• 1988Green Requiem — Music
• 1988My Neighbor Totoro — Original Music Composer
• 1988Those Swell Yakuza — Original Music Composer
• 1987A Tale of Two Robots, Chapter 3: Foreign Invasion — Music
• 1987Chicken Man and Red Neck — Music
• 1987Deprive — Music
• 1987Lover's Time — Original Music Composer
• 1987Presence — Music
• 1987Robot Carnival — Original Music Composer
• Robot Carnival — Original Music Composer
• 1987Star Light Angel — Music
• 1987The Drifting Classroom — Original Music Composer
• 1987This Story of Love — Original Music Composer
• 1986Arion — Original Music Composer
• 1986Atami Murder Case — Original Music Composer
• 1986Castle in the Sky — Original Music Composer
• 1986Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy — Original Music Composer
• Alpen Rose — Music
• 1985Early Spring Story — Original Music Composer
• 1985Spring Bell — Music
• 1984Birth — Original Music Composer
• Twin Hawks — Music
• 1984W's Tragedy — Original Music Composer
• 1984Warriors of the Wind — Original Music Composer
• Genesis Climber MOSPEADA — Original Music Composer
• Amazing Sarutobi — Music
• 1982Techno Police 21C — Music
• 1982The Wizard of Oz — Original Music Composer
• 1982Two Down Full Base — Original Music Composer
• 1981Glorious Number 3 — Music
• J9 Series — Music
• ろぼっ子ビートン — Music
• 1976咽び唄の里 土呂久 — Music
• Comeback — Music
• Franken's Gears — Music
• 久石让x新日本爱乐世界梦幻交响乐团 WORLD DREAM ORCHESTRA 2017

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2024Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron — Self
• 2019The Songs of Studio Ghibli — Self
• 2017Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki — Self
• 2014Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya — Self
• 2013The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness — Self
• 2010Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director — Self
• 2008NEWS ZERO Spinoff: "Ponyo on the Cliff" Close-Up! Five Genius Craftmen — Self
• 2005A Wish to the Moon: Joe Hisaishi & 9 Cellos 2003 Etude & Encore Tour — Self
• 2005Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery — Self - Interviewee
• 2001The Nippon Television Special of Spirited Away — Self
• 2000Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano — Self