Joe Hisaishi Movies

"Quartet" tells the story of four young musicians as they form a string quartet and pursue fame.

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...

After preventing the rape of a beautiful girl at the beach and falling in love with her, a medical student gets the chance to discover more about her...

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...

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...

Set in the nineteenth century and features two wooden "giant robots", directed from within by a human crew. In the style of a movie serial of the...

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...

Nippon TV's NEWS ZERO program produced an hour long documentary on the making of Ponyo, known in Japan by it's full title "Ponyo on the Cliff." A...

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...

a semi-animated documentary biopic about Shigeo Nagashima

A bishōjo story featuring two friends – teenage girls – at a robot-themed amusement park. One of the girls finds that her boyfriend...

Life and love stories of stunt men and women.

It is the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics but in one small town in southern China ZHANG Dachuan, a veteran of the 1950s Korean war, is either...

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...

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

What if we created a future for ourselves that was full of optimism and positivity? “Dear Alice” is a love letter from a grandmother to a...

Set in the city of Tokyo, overrun by its machines, which have been turned into robots of all shapes and sizes by a robotic magician, the titular Red...

Set in a high school in Nishi-Izu slated to close next spring, the story follows members of the school’s broadcasting club as they face their...

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