The Japanese film studio’s music catalogue will be available online in China via NetEase Cloud Music. The online streaming service has the biggest community for Japanese music fans in China. — SCMP
Chinese Internet giant NetEase has landed the domestic digital distribution rights for the music catalogue of Studio Ghibli, home of widely acclaimed Japanese animated feature films directed by co-founder Hayao Miyazaki.
NetEase Cloud Music, the Nasdaq-traded company’s on-demand streaming service, will make the catalogue – including albums and soundtracks from films such as My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle and Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea – available to subscribers in the world’s second largest economy, according to a NetEase announcement on Friday.
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