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Joe Hisaishi whose music is used by Hayao Miyazaki wants to work with Jay Chou
by kelvin@multistars - 14th December 2006Jay, who says that after he heard "Totoro" when he was 13 he couldn't forget it, can be considered as Japanese music master Joe Hisaishi's "star fans". Yesterday, when this musician who is especially used by Hayao Miyazaki's movies came to accept an interview in Shanghai, he said frankly "if there was an opportunity I must have a go at working with Jay."
On the 15th, 16 of December, Joe Hisaishi leads the two concerts held at the grand theatre in Shanghai, the songs are mainly the ones that made him famous in Hayao Miyazaki's movies, like "Spirited Away", "Nausica of the Valley of Wind", "Howl's Moving Castle", etc..., there will also be the music he produced for Kitano Takeshi's movies "Kikujiro", "Hana-bi", using Joe Hisaishi's own words, these are "the works people understand me before with." Apart from this, he, who is a graduate of music composition, still brought along some "works that represent his current state of writing". You can tell he really wants to prove that he is not just the musician for Hayao Miyazaki's movies.
On this performance's promotional leaflet, apart from Hayao Miyazaki and Kitano Takeshi recommendations, reporters unexpectedly discovered Jay Chou's name. This young heavenly king expressed: "I like to play his works on the piano at night, I hope I get a chance to work with him." Can it be this Japanese music master is going to create sparks with the Chinese young heavenly king of pop? Towards the questions from the reporters, Joe Hisaishi explained: "Towards Jay Chou's work, I listened to some. Before there was one time, someone was plotting to get us two to play the piano opposite of each other, afterwards because of many reasons this was never realised. If there was an opportunity, I must have a go at working with him." Joe Hisaishi expressed great interest in working with Chinese directors and musicians. He told reporters that in the past he felt Japanese movies were very great in Asia so he only worked with Japanese directors, along with the last few years there have been a bunch of quality movies from Korea and China, he felt more and more, "if I worked with Chinese directors, it can stimulate my writing passion". That's why, after working with Hong Kong's Jeffrey Lau for "A Chinese Tall Story", he is preparing to do the music work for Ann Hui's "The Aunt's Postmodern Life".
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