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Joe Hisaishi

1950 - Today

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Mamoru Fujisawa (藤澤 守, Fujisawa Mamoru, born December 6, 1950), known professionally as Joe Hisaishi (久石 譲, Hisaishi Jō), is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981. Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, including minimalist, experimental electronic, Western classical, and Japanese classical. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe Hisaishi has received more than 2,093,634 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Joe Hisaishi is the 124th most popular musician (up from 146th in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 103rd in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Musician.

Joe Hisaishi is a Japanese composer. He is most famous for his soundtracks for Studio Ghibli films.

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  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Joe Hisaishi ranks 124 out of 2,662. Before him are Jascha Heifetz, Chick Corea, Neil Young, John Dowland, Sid Vicious, and Bill Wyman. After him are Stuart Sutcliffe, Alice Cooper, Jacqueline du Pré, Till Lindemann, Roger Glover, and Carlos Kleiber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Joe Hisaishi ranks 22. Before him are Zhang Yimou, Gilles Villeneuve, Ed Harris, Jim Mattis, Ron Perlman, and Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. After him are Richard Dean Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Suzi Quatro, Julie Walters, William Hurt, and Prokopis Pavlopoulos.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Joe Hisaishi ranks 93 out of 6,048. Before him are Syukuro Manabe (1931), Hasekura Tsunenaga (1571), Benkei (1155), Chiune Sugihara (1900), Emperor Itoku (-553), and Masaru Emoto (1943). After him are Fumimaro Konoe (1891), Ishida Mitsunari (1559), Emperor Kōan (-427), Tarō Asō (1940), Abe no Seimei (921), and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886).

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Among MUSICIANS In Japan

Among musicians born in Japan, Joe Hisaishi ranks 1. After him are Kitarō (1953), Isao Tomita (1932), Shinichi Suzuki (1898), Mitsuko Uchida (1948), Hide (1964), Shigeru Umebayashi (1951), Yuki Kajiura (1965), Yoshiki (1965), Susumu Hirasawa (1954), Takanori Nishikawa (1970), and Gackt (1973).

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