Joe Hisaishi

Mamoru Fujisawa (藤澤守 Fujisawa Mamoru), professionally known as Joe Hisaishi (久石譲 Hisaishi Joe), born 6 December 1950 in Nagano, is a Japanese composer who composed a lot of music for Ghibli movies. The first major scores he composed were Hajime Ningen Gyatoruz and Robokko Beeton.

Studio Ghibli

 * Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
 * Laputa Castle in the Sky (1986)
 * My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
 * Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
 * Only Yesterday (1991) (possibly a composer)
 * Porco Rosso (1992)
 * Ocean Waves (1993) (trailer music)
 * Princess Mononoke (1997)
 * Spirited Away (2001)
 * Mei and the Kittenbus (TV-Short) (2002)
 * Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
 * Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008)
 * Ni No Kuni:Wrath of the White (2011)
 * The Wind Rises (2013)
 * Kaguyahime no monogatari (2013)

Trivia
Joe Hisaishi is inspired by European composers such as L. van Beethoven, W.A. Mozart and J.S. Bach.