NIPPON TV TO PRODUCE AND DISTRIBUTE GLOBALLY
“JOE HISAISHI & WORLD DREAM ORCHESTRA 2021”,
AN ALL-NEW CONCERT FROM AWARD-WINNING COMPOSER JOE HISAISHI

Joe Hisaishi is an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences member and the composer for the Academy Award-winning animated feature film Spirited Away (Studio Ghibli) and will be performing the symphony suite from the Japan Academy Award Best Film of the Year Princess Mononoke (Studio Ghibli)

TOKYO, JAPAN -March 12, 2021- Nippon TV, Japan's leading multiplatform entertainment powerhouse, announced today that it will be producing and globally distributing Joe Hisaishi & World Dream Orchestra 2021 concert to be held in Japan on April 27th, 2021 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater. The 90-minute concert is a long-awaited return for his fans not only in Japan but globally as he is known the world over. As a part of this musical extravaganza, which will be available from Nippon TV, they will perform the popular symphonic suite of Princess Mononoke, as well as other symphonies written by the award-winning composer.

Joe Hisaishi is well known in the global music industry for his work on the Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s animated feature films such as Spirited Away, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro and others. He has composed music for many popular films such as the award-winning HANA-BI (directed by Takeshi Kitano), the Academy Award-winning Departures, and many more. Joe Hisaishi has also won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Music seven times and was awarded with a Medal of Honour with the “Medal with Purple Ribbon” by the Government of Japan in 2009, among many other international awards.

In 2017, he started the world tour of Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki, which has been held in Paris, Melbourne, Los Angeles, New York and other cities with great success. He has also collaborated with world-renowned artists such as Philip Glass, David Lang, and Mischa Maisky, and conducted top orchestras overseas, including the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and American Symphony Orchestra.

“This musical event marks the first time that the Joe Hisaishi & World Dream Orchestra 2021 concert will be available internationally and we are so proud to be offering the worldwide rights to this special,” commented Kenichi Yoda, Producer, Global Business Division, Nippon TV. “Available as ready-made content, we are confident that Joe Hisaishi’s fans around the world will be eagerly awaiting this performance and will love it as much as his fans in Japan.”

Hisaishi’s solemn and grandiose music is highly regarded to be valuable to augment the appreciation of the films that it accompanies, and has fans across the globe. Nippon TV will produce the series as content for the first time and looks forward to introducing the series to not only TV stations / SVOD streamers focusing on music but also film and animation. Please contact intlprg@ntv.co.jp for inquiries.

Official site: https://joehisaishi-concert.com/
 Program:
　Symphony No. 2
　World Dreams
　Symphonic Suite "Princess Mononoke"
　and more (the orders are subject to change).
All enquiries pertaining to ticket purchases should be made to https://joehisaishi-concert.com/ ,Nippon TV cannot respond to any questions about the concert except for the international sales of the readymade content.

About Nippon TV
Nippon TV is Japan's leading multiplatform entertainment powerhouse and ratings champion broadcaster as well as owner of streaming giant Hulu in Japan. One of the biggest successes for the nation's finest producer of all genres of programming is the Emmy Award-winning Dragons' Den/Shark Tank, a globally successful business show format that has more than 40 versions in 186 territories across all continents of the world. Following closely are the successes of scripted formats Mother and Woman -My Life for My Children-, whose Turkish versions have become mega-hits that have gone on to air in more than 40 territories around the world, a first for a format from Japan. Mother has also been sold to South Korea, Ukraine, France, Thailand, China and more, making it one of the most exported formats out of Asia. The Chinese remake of Mother won the Best Drama and Best Actress of the 2020 Best Internet Content Ranking at the 2020 Shanghai International Film＆TV Festival Shanghai Internet Summit. The company is also achieving great success with gameshow formats BLOCK OUT, an action-packed game show format that has been sold to Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Spain and Holland, as well as Mute it!, the award-winning show sold to WBITVP and produced in the Netherlands. Over 90% of its content IP is fully owned by Nippon TV, in addition to well-established businesses that span VOD/live-streaming engineering, animation/film production, fitness clubs, eSports, and android creation/digital mixed reality technology. Nippon TV is leveraging its coveted platform to revolutionize digital media in an ever-changing industry to solidify its presence and brand as a global media leader.