Dream Songs: The Essential Joe Hisaishi features the greatest hits from iconic award-winning films, orchestra and solo piano works including recordings never-before released outside Japan. "The John Williams of Japan" only hints at what makes Joe Hisaishi, one Japan's most beloved and prolific composers, a singular musical voice of the past 40 years. Most famous as the go-to composer for Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki (the Academy Award-winning Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro).