This song is very beautiful. For us, Japanese, this song gives us a compete image of summer. Such remoriesas playing in the river with friends, catching beetles under the shining sun, and eating watermeron with bottled coke appear just when listening to this music.
Joe Hisaishi is certainly a magician. His music moves us from the deep spot of our mind. It’s not a fashion. It’s a kind of re-experience of our time. Beautiful time, precious memories, and joy of the nature around us are all written in his melody.
This song, Summer, is a theme song of a Movie by director, Takeshi Kitano.
Takeshi Kitano is also becoming famous in France, UK, Italy, and in Russia. He is not that famous in the USA. Many of Kitano’s fans found this music in his movie and they still like it.
Joe Hisaishi is probably a famous mind among Kitano fans and Hayao Miyazaki movie fans. They recently admit that Joe Hisaishi can work even without their great movies, which means Joe Hisaishi’s music alone is great enough to move them.
In Japan, the first encounter with Joe Hisaishi for average Japanese people was through the movies of such great directors. Present understanding about Joe Hisaishi among that average Japanese people is that Joe Hisaishi is real genius. Many expect new movies with Joe’s music, also probably they expect Joe’s music as well as the movies, or sometime more than the movies.
His music give the Japanese fantastic dream, nostalgic dream, and joy of our life.
