Joe Hisaishi is most well known as the composer for film music for Hayao Miyazaki's animated feature films such as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Spirited Away (2001) and Howl's Moving Castle (2004) and for Takeshi Kitano's films such as Kids Return (1996), Hanabi (1997) and Kikujiro (1999). However his root as a composer could be originated in ''minimal music'' into which he was deeply absorbed when he was a college student and Hisaishi recently comes back to his origin after he succeeded in the field of film music. The 5 works included in Minima_Rhythm, are composed in the style of minimal music.