The official Twitter account for the Kinyō Road Show movie programming block announced on Monday that Susumu Kazuhara, a musician whose signature trumpet-playing can be heard in Laputa: Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, and many films and television series, passed away.
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Kazuhara performed the trumpet solo (as played onscreen by the male lead Pazu) in the song “Hato to Shо̄nen” (Pigeons and a Boy) for Hayao Miyazaki’s Laputa: Castle in the Sky film.
Kazuhara was born in Okayama prefecture on September 13, 1946, and he attended the Kunitachi College of Music.