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Fumio Hayasaka had a celebrated association with the pre-eminent Japanese director Akira Kurosawa which was short-lived due to Hayasaka's early death. The 1948 film Drunken Angel (Yoidore tenshi) was the first film directed by Akira Kurosawa that Hayasaka composed music for. The director and composer collaborated to test "oppositional handling ...
- Composer
- 早坂 文雄
Fumio Hayasaka. Composer: Drunken Angel. During his roughly 15-year-long career, Fumio Hayasaka composed scores for some of the biggest names in Japanese cinema and was regarded by many as the finest Japanese film composer alive.
- Composer, Writer, Music Department
- August 19, 1914
- Fumio Hayasaka
- October 15, 1955
structed his composer Fumio Hayasaka (1914-55) to compose a score uti. lizing traditional Japanese instruments for his 1954 film adaptation of the ancient tale. The two men had been working together since 1950, and many of their previous collaborations, such as Oyu-sama (Miss Oyu, 1951) and Ugetsu monogatari (Ugetsu, 1953), included traditional ...
1914-1955. Fumio Hayasaka (Hayasaka Fumio; August 19, 1914 – October 15, 1955) was a Japanese composer of classical music and film scores. Hayasaka was born in the city of Sendai on the main Japanese island of Honshū. In 1918, Hayasaka and his family moved to Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaidō.
Hayasaka Fumio (1914–55) worked with some of Japan’s most famous film directors during his sixteen year career while winning numerous accolades for both his film and concert music, though his name and work are little known outside of his native country.
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Chaplin (Stockholm), April-May 1965. Fumio Hayasaka is among the most respected of Japanese composers. Beginning in the late 1930s he has worked for noted directors including Mikio Naruse, Yasujiro Shimazu, Tadashi Imai, Teinosuke Kinugasa, and Kon Ichikawa. However, he is most famous for his work for Kenji Mizoguchi and Akira Kurosawa.