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In 1983, with his new name, Hisaishi was recommended by a record company to create an album for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Hisaishi and the director of the animated film, Hayao Miyazaki, became great friends and would work together on many future projects.

This big break led to Hisaishi's overwhelming success as a composer of film scores.

In 1986, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, and later, in the 1990s, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, were released.

As Hisaishi strengthened his reputation as one of the budding anime industry's top musical contributors, his compositions ( including eight theatrical films and one OAV ) would proceed to become some of the very hallmarks of early anime in the 1980s and 1990s.

Hisaishi also composed for such TV and movie hits as Sasuga no Sarutobi, Two Down Full Base, Tonde Mon Pe and anime Tekuno porisu 21C ( all 1982 ), Sasrygar ( 1983 ), Futari Taka ( 1984 ), Honō no Alpen Rose ( 1985 ) and Oz no mahôtsukai ( 1986 ).

He also scored the sci-fi adventure series Mospeada ( 1983 ), which was later reworked ( without his music ) into the third segment of Carl Macek's compilation, Robotech.

Other films he scored included Mobile Suit Gundam Movie II: Soldiers of Sorrow ( 1981 ), Mobile Suit Gundam Movie III: Encounters in Space, ( 1982 ), Birth ( Bâsu ) ( 1984 ), Arion ( 1986 ), Robot Carnival ( 1987 ), Totoro ( 1988 ), Crest of the Royal Family and Maison Ikkoku-Apartment Fantasy ( both 1988 ), Venus Wars ( 1989 ), Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1989 ), Porco Rosso ( 1992 ) and Ocean Heaven ( 2010 ).

He also did theme song arrangements and composed other anime titles's opening, closing and insert theme songs such as Hello!

Sandybell ( 1981 ), Ai Shite Knight ( 1983 ), Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel: Curtain Call ( 1986 ), and Kimagure Orange Road: The Movie ( 1988 ).