“I did not want to describe emotions or scenes through music. I wanted to be at a certain distance from the story and the characters, and I wanted to be in between the actual story and what we see on the screen, and the viewers, in terms of writing the music.”
— Joe Hisaishi
T. Greiving, “‘The Boy and the Heron’ composer wants you to feel the movie, not search for meaning”, Los Angeles Times, 29 November 2023, https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2023-11-29/miyazaki-boy-and-the-heron-music-composer, (Accessed 4 January 2024).
Joe Hisaishi on the score of The Boy and the Heron
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