The music to Studio Ghibli’s 2004 Japanese animated fantasy film Howl’s Moving Castle directed by Hayao Miyazaki, featured a score composed by Joe Hisaishi, Miyazaki’s regular collaborator and performed by the New Japan Philharmonic orchestra. Hisaishi had introduced several leitfmotifs for the first time, as his previous scores for the Miyazaki and Ghibli ventures did […]