Spirited Away/Music

The original soundtrack for the Japanese animated film Spirited Away was composed by Joe Hisaishi and performed by the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. Next to the original soundtrack an image album was released by Joe Hisaishi containing ten additional tracks.

The song "Day of the River" (あの日の川, ano hi no kawa) received the 56th Mainichi Film Competition Award for Best Music, the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2001 Best Music Award in the Theater Movie category, and the 16th Japan Gold Disk Award for Animation Album of the Year. Joe Hisaishi later wrote lyrics for the song "One Summer's Day" (あの夏へ, ano natsu e) and released it as a new version named "The Name of Life" (いのちの名前, inochi no namae) performed by Ayaka Hirahara.