Porco Rosso - Joe Hisaishi

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Pandabonium said…
Hisaishi always wrote the perfect scores for Miyazaki's films. Love the trombones at 2 minutes into the clip. ;)
8:39 am, August 16, 2018
Martin J Frid said…
Love the trombones indeed. Nobody could have raised to the occasion like Joe Hisaishi.
10:32 pm, August 17, 2018
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