NetEase, Japan’s Studio Ghibli team up to stream music from some of Hayao Miyazaki’s anime films

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.