Joe Hisaishi discography

Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi has released 25 studio albums, 13 compilation albums, and 83 soundtrack albums. Hisaishi has also released five video albums.

Joe Hisaishi discography
Joe Hisaishi at the Deauville Asian Film Festival in 2008
Studio albums25
Compilation albums13
Video albums5
Soundtrack albums83

Albums

Studio albums

Year Album details
1981 MKWAJU (ムクワジュ)
1982 Information
1985 α-BET-CITY (アルファベットシティ)
  • Released: 25 June 1985
  • Label: Tokuma Japan
  • Format: CD
1986 Curved Music
1988 Piano Stories
  • Released: 21 July 1988
  • Label: Polydor Records
  • Format: CD
1988 illusion
  • Released: 21 December 1988
  • Label: NEC Avenue
  • Format: CD
1989 Pretender
  • Released: 21 September 1989
  • Label: NEC Avenue
  • Format: CD
1991 I Am
  • Released: 22 February 1991
  • Label: Toshiba EMI
  • Format: CD
1992 My Lost City
  • Released: 12 February 1992
  • Label: Toshiba EMI
  • Format:CD
1994 Earthly Paradise
1995 Melody Boulevard
  • Released: 25 January 1995
  • Label: Pioneer LDC
  • Format: CD
1996 Piano Stories II – The Wind of Life
  • Released: 25 October 1996
  • Label: Polydor Records
  • Format: CD
1997 Works I
  • Released: 15 October 1997
  • Label: Polydor Records
  • Format: CD
1998 Piano Stories III – Nostalgia
  • Released: 14 October 1998
  • Label: Polydor Records
  • Format: CD
1999 Works II
  • Released: 20 September 1999
  • Label: Polydor Records
  • Format: CD
2000 Shoot The Violist
  • Released: 17 May 2000
  • Label: Polydor Records
  • Format: CD
2002 Encore
  • Released: 6 March 2002
  • Label: Polydor Records
  • Format: CD
2003 Curved Music II
  • Released: 29 January 2003
  • Label: Universal Sigma
  • Format: CD
2004 Private
  • Released: 21 January 2004
  • Label: Wonderland Records
  • Format: CD
2005 Piano Stories IV – Freedom
  • Released: 26 January 2005
  • Label: Universal Sigma
  • Format: CD
2005 Works III
  • Released: 27 July 2005
  • Label: Universal Sigma
  • Format: CD
2006 Rakuen/Maldives
  • Released: 26 April 2006
  • Label: Wonderland Records
  • Format: CD
2006 Asian X.T.C.
  • Released: 4 October 2006
  • Label: Universal Sigma
  • Format: CD
2009 Another Piano Stories ~The End of the World~
  • Released: 18 February 2009
  • Label: Universal Sigma
  • Format: CD
2009 Minima Rhythm
  • Released: 12 August 2009
  • Label: Universal Sigma
  • Format: CD, DVD
2012 Vermeer & Escher
  • Released: 15 February 2012
  • Label: Wonder Land
  • Format: CD
2014 Works IV -Dream of W.D.O.-
  • Released: 8 October 2014
  • Label: Universal Sigma
  • Format: CD
2015 Minima_Rhythm 2 (ミニマリズム2)
  • Released: 5 August 2015
  • Label: Universal Sigma
  • Format: CD
2017 Minima_Rhythm 3
  • Released: 2 August 2017
  • Label: Universal Music
  • Format: CD

Compilation albums

Year Album details
1992 Symphonic Best Selection
  • Released: 9 September 1992
  • Label: Toshiba EMI
  • Format: CD
1999 Best Selection
  • Released: 2 December 1999
  • Label: Pioneer LDC
  • Format: CD
2001 Joe Hisaishi Meets Kitano Films
2001 Complete Best Selection
  • Released: 12 December 2001
  • Label: Pioneer LDC
  • Format: CD
2003 Best Live 2003
2004 World Dreams
  • Released: 16 June 2004
  • Label: Universal Sigma
  • Format: CD
2005 American in Paris
  • Released: 30 November 2005
  • Label: Universal Sigma
  • Format: CD
2006 The Best Collection
  • Released: 7 June 2006
  • Label: Universal Sigma
  • Format: CD
2008 Hisaishi Meets Miyazaki Films
2008 Piano Stories Best '88-'08
  • Released: 16 April 2008
  • Label: Universal Sigma
  • Format: CD
2010 Melodyphony: Best of Joe Hisaishi
  • Released: 27 October 2010
  • Label: Universal Sigma
  • Format: CD, DVD
2011 The Best of Cinema Music
  • Released: 7 September 2011
  • Label: Universal Sigma
  • Format: CD
2014 Ghibli Best Stories
  • Released: 12 March 2014
  • Label: Universal Sigma
  • Format: CD
2020 Dream Songs: The Essential Joe Hisaishi
  • Released: 21 February 2020
  • Label: Decca Gold
  • Format: CD, Digital

Video albums

Year Video details
2002 Quartet
  • Released: 25 March 2002
  • Format: DVD
2003 4Movement
  • Released: 19 March 2003
  • Format: DVD
2003 A Wish to the Moon – Joe Hisaishi & 9 Cellos 2003 Etude/Encore Tour
  • Released: 25 June 2003
  • Format: DVD
2006 W.D.O. (Joe Hisaishi and New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra)
  • Released: 20 December 2006
  • Format: DVD
2009 Joe Hisaishi in Budokan – 25 Years with the Animations of Hayao Miyazaki
  • Released: 3 July 2009
  • Format: DVD, Blu-ray

Soundtracks

Year Album details
1984 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  • Released: 25 February 1984
  • Label: Animage Records/Tokuma Japan
  • Format: CD
1984 W's Tragedy
  • Released: 21 December 1984
  • Label: Toshiba EMI
  • Format: CD
1985 Early Spring Tale (早春物語)
  • Released 1 September 1985
1985 Arion
  • Released: 25 October 1985
  • Label: Animage Records/Tokuma Japan
  • Format: CD
1986 Laputa Castle in the Sky
  • Released: 25 August 1986
1986 Maison Ikkoku (めぞん一刻)
  • Released: 25 October 1986
1987 Lovers of Time
Koibitotachino jikoku (恋人たちの時刻 サントラ)
  • Released: 5 March 1987
1987 Robot Carnival
  • Released: 21 March 1987
1987 The Drifting Classroom
(漂流教室 オリジナルサントラ)
  • Released: 21 July 1987
1988 My Neighbor Totoro
  • Released: 25 March 1988
1988 Night City (シングル)
  • Released: 21 August 1988
1988 Winter Travelers (冬の旅人)
  • Released: 21 December 1988
1988 Venus Wars
  • Released: 10 April 1988
1989 Kiki's Delivery Service
  • Released: 25 August 1989
1989 The Inners (はるかなる時間の 彼方へ)
  • Released: 21 April 1989
1991 Chizuko's Younger Sister
  • Released: 21 April 1991
1991 Kojika Monogatari
  • Released: 21 April 1991
1991 A Scene at the Sea
  • Released: October 19, 1991
1991 天外魔境2 MARU
  • Released: 1 February 1992
1992 君だけをみていた
  • Released: 4 March 1992
1992 Porco Rosso
  • Released: 22 July 1992
1992 B+1
  • Released: 21 October 1992
1992 A Scene at the Sea
  • Released: 25 November 1992
1992 Seisyun Den-Deke-Deke-Deke
  • Released: 25 November 1992
1993 Haruka Nostalgy
  • Released: 21 January 1993
1993 Sonatine
  • Released: 9 June 1993
  • Label: Eastworld / Toshiba EMI
1993 The Water Traveler, Samurai Kids
  • Released: 1993.08.04
1994 Birth
  • Released: 1994.03.24
1994 さすがの猿飛
  • Released: 1994.03.24
1994 Joe's Project (ぴあの)
  • Released: 1994.06.01
1994 Joe's Project 2 (ぴあの / 純名里沙)
  • Released: 1994.08.10
1996 Kids Return
  • Released: 1996.06.26
1997 Princess Mononoke
  • Released: 2 July 1997
1997 Parasite Eve
  • Released: 1997.02.01
1998 Hana-bi
  • Released: 1998.01.01
1998 Tree of Early Winter Rains (時雨の記)
  • Released: 1998.10.31
1999 Universe Within I: Human Body I & II
  • Released: 1999.04.28
1999 Universe Within II: Brain & Mind I & II
  • Released: 1999.04.28
1999 Universe Within III: Gene I & II
  • Released: 1999.04.28
1999 Kikujiro
  • Released: 1999.05.26
2000 First Love (Hatsu-koi)
  • Released: 2000.03.28
2000 Alpenrose
  • Released: 26 April 2000
2000 As the River Flows
  • Released: 2000.04.29
2001 Brother
  • Released: 2001.01.17
2001 Spirited Away
  • Released: 18 July 2001
2001 Quartet
  • Released: 2001.09.27
2001 Little Tom Thumb (Le Petit Poucet)
  • Released: 2001.10.15
2004 Howl's Moving Castle
  • Released: 19 November 2004
2002 Dolls
  • Released: 2002.10.02
2002 Kaze no Bon (の風盆から)
  • Released: 2002.11.23
2002 When the Last Sword is Drawn
  • Released: 2002.12.26
2004 Le Mécano de la General
  • Released: 2004.09.06
2005 Welcome to Dongmakgol (웰컴 투 동막골)
  • Released: 2005.08.04
2005 Yamato
  • Released: 2005.12.14
2005 A Chinese Tall Story (情癫大圣)
  • Released: 2005.12.19
2007 The Sun Also Rises
  • Released: 2007.09.19
2007 Tae Wang Sa Shin Gi (태왕 사 신기)
  • Released: 2007.09.11
2007 A Tale of Mari and Three Puppies (マリと子犬の物語)
  • Released: 2007.12.08
2008 Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea
  • Released: 16 July 2008
  • Label: Tokuma Japan Communications
  • Format: CD, Digital
2008 Departures
  • Released: 2008.09.10
2008 I'd Rather Be A Shellfish (Watashi Wa Kai Ni Naritai)
  • Released: 2008.11.19
2008 Sunny Et L'Elephant
  • Released: 2008.12.04
2009 The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
  • Released: 2009.07.09
2009 NHK TV Series "A Cloud on the Slope (Saka no Ue no Kumo)"
  • Released: 2009.11.18
2009 Oruru No Mori No Monogatari (A Tale of Ululu's Wonderful Forest)
  • Released: 2009.12.16
2010 The 19th Step
  • Released: 2010
2010 Ocean Heaven (Gui Lunmei)
  • Released: 2010
2010 Villain
  • Released: 2010.09.01
2010 NHK TV Series "A Cloud on the Slope (Saka no Ue no Kumo)"
  • Released: 2010.11.17
2011 Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess
  • Released: 2011.02.02
2011 Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn
  • Released: 9 February 2011
2011 NHK TV Series "A Cloud on the Slope (Saka no Ue no Kumo)"
  • Released: 9 November 2011
2012 NHK TV Series "A Cloud on the Slope (Saka no Ue no Kumo)"
  • Released: 22 February 2012
2012 Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer
  • Released: 12 September 2012
2013 Tokyo Family
  • Released: 16 January 2013
  • Label: Universal Sigma
  • Format: CD
2013 Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
  • Released: 29 March 2013
2013 Onna Nobunaga
  • Released: 3 April 2013
2013 NHK Shinkai Project – Giant Deep Sea Creatures
  • Released: 26 June 2013
2013 Kiseki No Ringo
  • Released: 15 July 2013
2013 The Wind Rises
  • Released: 17 July 2013
2013 Sweet Heart Chocolate
  • Released: 1 November 2013
2013 The Tale of Princess Kaguya
  • Released: 20 November 2013
2014 The Little House
2018 Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
  • Released: 23 March 2018
2019 Ni no Kuni (Film)
  • Released: 23 August 2019

Other album appearances

Year Album Artist Details
1986 Soil (未来の記憶) Syoko Co-producer

Published scores

(released by Zen-On Music Company Ltd.)[1]

Album Release date Notes
Orchestra Stories: Tonari no TOTORO (Original Edition) 23 Oct 2002
ENCORE (Original Edition) 6 Mar 2002
A String Quartet: "QUARTET" For string quintet
Asian X.T.C. (Original Edition)
FREEDOM (Original Edition)
Piano Stories
Etude - A Wish to the Moon
Ghibli Best Stories
Piano Stories Best '88-'08
Piano Stories Vol2 "The Wind of Life"
Vermeer & Escher*[2] Orchestra work with choir
Minima_Rhythm*[3] Orchestra work with choir
Melodyphony*[4] Orchestra work with choir
The East Land Symphony[5] Orchestra work with soprano soloist
  • Published by Schott Music Tokyo.

Unpublished scores

There are numerous television and cinema soundtracks created by Joe Hisaishi that were never released for sale, such as.

References

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