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‘Trek To Yomi’’s commitment to Akira Kurosawa-like authenticity isn’t just impressive – it’s extraordinary

NME 26 Apr 2022
“There’s magic in those Fumio Hayasaka recordings,” explains composer and music producer for Trek to Yomi, Cody Matthew Johnson, “because the recording technology of the West – where things were really developing in the 40s and 50s – hadn’t really spread to the rest of the world yet.
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Trek to Yomi Delivers a New Take on the Classic Samurai Tale

Spin 13 Apr 2022
The soundtrack for Kurosawa’s films usually featured the work of Fumio Hayasaka, a brilliant Japanese composer ... A lot of research on what we’ve come to call “Kurosawa-ism.” Music from his go-to music collaborator, composer Fumio Hayasaka, and anything and everything about Japanese ...
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Yasuke is a Black samurai anime that delivers on an expansive promise

Polygon 29 Apr 2021
... Out 2022, and as a contributing musician on Watanabe’s 2019 series Carole & Tuesday , the EDM polymath has arguably outdone himself, crafting a score that feels reminiscent of Fumio Hayasaka by way of Vangelis, conjuring a tone that feels both idiosyncratic and easy on the ears.
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Seven Samurai turns 65

Yahoo Daily News 30 Apr 2019
One of the things that made it unlike the samurai films up until then was Fumio Hayasaka’s background score. Kurosawa had asked Hayasaka to give him something different from the music heard in samurai films such as the Zatoichi films, which followed the adventures of a blind ...
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Filming the Fear Index

CounterPunch 23 May 2014
Kurosawa said that he was inspired to make the film by conversations he had with his longtime film composer Fumio Hayasaka who had become seriously ill during the making of “Seven Samurai”. Hayasaka had told him, “The world has come to such a state that we don’t really know what is in store for us tomorrow ... Uncertainties, nothing but uncertainties ... .
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Mizoguchi's Ugetsu: Beauty Shrouded in Obscurity

The Examiner 22 Jul 2009
Comment RSS Email Print.  .  On Sunday July 26 at 2.00 AM Turner Classic Movies TCM will air one of the greatest of all Japanese films ... Adding to the ethereal atmosphere is the musical score by Mizoguchi’s favorite collaborator Fumio Hayasaka, which mixes Japanese and Western instruments and rhythms to great effect ...  . .
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Elegant Tchaikovsky caps rich performance

Toledo Blade 18 Oct 2008
The Peristyle was only just over half-full, a depressingly meager turnout for what was a rich and rewarding performance ... Despite minor glitches in a few entries and exits, the orchestra responded in kind with playing that was as understated yet balanced as the work itself, written as a tribute to Japanese filmmaker Fumio Hayasaka ... .
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Bob's Take on Cinema: Kurosawa's genius shines at Film Streams

Omaha World-Herald 27 Mar 2008
BY BOB FISCHBACH. WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER. Many cinema experts and fans rank Japanese director Akira Kurosawa as one of the all-time greats. Omaha director-screenwriter Alexander Payne ("Sideways") ranks him higher ... He often used the same crew (cinematographer Asakazu Kakai, composer Fumio Hayasaka) and actors (Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura) ... .
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VIDEO REVIEW: 1948's 'Drunken Angel' now out on DVD

The Wichita Eagle 01 Dec 2007
By BRUCE DANCIS Sacramento Bee ... It was also the first time Kurosawa worked with two frequent collaborators, composer Fumio Hayasaka and production designer Takashi ("So") Matsuyama. But most importantly, Kurosawa himself viewed "Drunken Angel," his sixth feature-length film, as his "breakthrough." ... It was my picture. I was doing it and no one else." ... ...
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1948's 'Drunken Angel' now out on DVD

Scripps Howard 30 Nov 2007
It was also the first time Kurosawa worked with two frequent collaborators, composer Fumio Hayasaka and production designer Takashi ("So") Matsuyama. But most importantly, Kurosawa himself viewed "Drunken Angel," his sixth feature-length film, as his "breakthrough." ... It was my picture. I was doing it and no one else." ... .. ... .
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Rashomon

ReelViews 13 Nov 2007
It wouldn't be a stretch to name legendary Japanese film maker Akira Kurosawa as one of the ten greatest motion picture directors of all time ... But much is different, as well ... a kaleidoscope of black-and-white images accompanied only by Fumio Hayasaka's evocative score as the woodcutter makes his way into the woods and discovers the dead body ... .
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Two famous Japanese films are released on DVD

Scripps Howard 05 Sep 2006
... a poor village of farmers against attack by bandits; the state-of-the-art location photography by Kurosawa and cinematographer Asakazu Nakai; the percussively compelling musical score by Fumio Hayasaka, and the stunning battle scenes that make up the film's legendary climax.
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Viva evokes as Chorale and MSO unite

The Age 23 May 2003
Musica Viva, Menage,. at the Night Cat,. Fitzroy,. May 20 ... Out went the scheduled 19th-century Sor and early 20th-century Albeniz ... Not that it was all serious stuff ... ... Takemitsu's Requiem dealt in tougher terms and brooding power with his reactions to the death of Fumio Hayasaka, the composer responsible for the scores to Rashomon and The Seven Samurai. .
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ART BEAT / Mayuzumi: Still misunderstood after all these years

Daily Yomiuri 20 Mar 2003
Around the same time, however, composers like Fumio Hayasaka (1914-55) and Akira Ifukube (born 1914), who had bigger inclinations toward Russian music than Sudaka, were also searching for their own identities as Japanese from the standpoints different from Germanic expression.
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Redemption found in Kurosawa's 'Ikiru'

The Washington Times 08 Feb 2003
"Ikiru" belongs to a supremely creative period in the career of the great Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Made between "Rashomon" and "The Seven Samurai," it was an immediate commercial and critical success in Japan when released in October 1952 ... 16 ... a birthday party ... Before this consummation, Mr ... **** ... Music by Fumio Hayasaka.

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