"Spirited Away" by the famous Japan director Hayao Miyasaki was released in 2002.
Spirited Away is a fantasy adventure with a ten year-old girl (Chihiro), which starts in a "contemporary" Japan but goes somewhere very different. Chihiro and her family find a mysterious tunnel and discove the Land of Spirits, inhabited by gods and monsters. This land is ruled by the greedy witch Yu-baba. Chihiro's parents are transformed into pigs. To rescue them, she must surrender her name and serve in this world. Luckily, she finds friends and allies. One of them is a handsome and mysterious boy named Haku.
Spirited Away is a fantasy adventure with a ten year-old girl (Chihiro), which starts in a "contemporary" Japan but goes somewhere very different. Chihiro and her family find a mysterious tunnel and discove the Land of Spirits, inhabited by gods and monsters. This land is ruled by the greedy witch Yu-baba. Chihiro's parents are transformed into pigs. To rescue them, she must surrender her name and serve in this world. Luckily, she finds friends and allies. One of them is a handsome and mysterious boy named Haku.
Joe Hisaishi composed the soundtrack. It's not his firth contribution to a Miyasaki animated movie.
To my mind, both, they are able to transpose the perfect emotion. To create the musical soundscape for this phantasmagorical adventure, Joe Hitsaishi uses ancient Japanese modalities and percussion. This composer explores Westernized influences too ( String and piano, gentle woodwinds). The collection ends with a warm note: Youmi Kimura sings a neo baroque sonf called Always xith me. It's wonderful.
For me, Hisaishi has reinvented and refined an instrumental language that evoques perfectly the magic of fantastic Miyazaki's movies.
This composer is a fabulous player too. Listen this concert in live concert: Joe Hisaiki plays Summer's Day from Spirited Away. It will catch your senses...
Some corrections: Japanese, composed, first, a Miyasaki animated movie, live concert. It will catch your senses.
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