---
name: "Fumio Hayasaka"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/fumio-hayasaka"
fi1m_id: "fumio-hayasaka"
imdb_id: "nm0370593"
tmdb_id: 7460
wikidata_id: "Q2632033"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "19 August 1914"
died: "15 October 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 92
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-25T05:29:14.130781+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Fumio Hayasaka

## Identity

Fumio Hayasaka

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/fumio-hayasaka
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** fumio-hayasaka
- **IMDb ID:** nm0370593
- **TMDB ID:** 7460
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2632033
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumio_Hayasaka, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2632033, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370593/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7460

Composer. Born 19 August 1914 in Sendai. Died 15 October 1955.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 19 August 1914, Sendai
- **Died:** 15 October 1955
- **Active:** 1950–1954
- **Frequently works with:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://film.one/person/akira-kurosawa.md), [Shinobu Hashimoto](https://film.one/person/shinobu-hashimoto.md), [Takashi Shimura](https://film.one/person/takashi-shimura.md), [Hideo Oguni](https://film.one/person/hideo-oguni.md), [Kenji Mizoguchi](https://film.one/person/kenji-mizoguchi.md), [Kinuyo Tanaka](https://film.one/person/kinuyo-tanaka.md), [Machiko Kyō](https://film.one/person/machiko-kyo.md), [Masaichi Nagata](https://film.one/person/masaichi-nagata.md)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 92 to 87 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 5 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Mystery 2, Action 1, Crime 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $105m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumio_Hayasaka, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2632033, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370593/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7460

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Seven Samurai*](https://film.one/film/seven-samurai.md) (95), [*Ikiru*](https://film.one/film/ikiru.md) (92), [*Rashomon*](https://film.one/film/rashomon.md) (92), [*Ugetsu*](https://film.one/film/ugetsu.md) (89)

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## Biography

Fumio Hayasaka was a Japanese composer of classical music and film scores. Born in Sendai on 19 August 1914, he moved with his family to Sapporo as a child and was largely self-taught. He began composing concert works in the 1930s and moved to Tokyo in 1939 to work in film.

Hayasaka scored numerous films for Akira Kurosawa, including *Drunken Angel* (1948), *Stray Dog* (1949), *Rashomon* (1950), *Ikiru* (1952) and *Seven Samurai* (1954). He also composed for Kenji Mizoguchi on *Ugetsu* (1953), *Sansho the Bailiff* (1954) and *Chikamatsu Monogatari* (1954). He served as a mentor to composers Masaru Satō and Tōru Takemitsu.

Hayasaka died of tuberculosis in Tokyo on 15 October 1955, aged 41, while working on the score for *I Live in Fear* (1955).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, encyclopedia.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Sansho the Bailiff* (1954), Fi1m 92, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/sansho-the-bailiff.md)
- *Seven Samurai* (1954), Fi1m 95, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/seven-samurai.md)
- *Ugetsu* (1953), Fi1m 89, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/ugetsu.md)
- *Ikiru* (1952), Fi1m 92, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/ikiru.md)
- *Rashomon* (1950), Fi1m 92, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/rashomon.md)

## Complete filmography (61)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Beyond The Stars* (1956), Music
- *Samurai of the Great Earth* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *I Live in Fear* (1955), Story
- *Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Taira Clan Saga* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Princess Yang Kwei-fei* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *The Black Fury* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Chikamatsu Monogatari* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *The Princess Sen* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Forever Be Mine* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Seven Samurai* (1954), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 95, [page](https://film.one/film/seven-samurai.md)
- *Sansho the Bailiff* (1954), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/sansho-the-bailiff.md)
- *Hanran* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Hiroba no kōdoku* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *Ugetsu* (1953), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/ugetsu.md)
- *Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *Forever My Love* (1952), Music
- *Dôkoku* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *Ikiru* (1952), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/ikiru.md)
- *I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *Repast* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *The Lady of Musashino* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Tsuki yori no haha* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Miss Oyu* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *The Idiot* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *The White Orchid* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Red Peony of Night* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Portrait of Madame Yuki* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Rashomon* (1950), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/rashomon.md)
- *Snow-Flake* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Scandal* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Wife and the Female Reporter: A Crisis of Young Love* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Mado Kara Tobidase* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Duel in the Sun* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Escape at Dawn* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Stray Dog* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *The Adventures of Tobisuke* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *The Beauty of the Evening Sky* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *Fujisancho* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain* (1948), Music
- *Drunken Angel* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *A Flower Blooms* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *Actress* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *The Age of Beginnings* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Chikagai nijuyojikan* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *As Long as I Live* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *An Enemy of the People* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *Three Women of the North* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *Duel at Yagyu Valley* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *Bouquet of the South Seas* (1942), Original Music Composer
- *Green Earth* (1942), Original Music Composer
- *Young Teacher* (1942), Music
- *Story of Leadership* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *White Heron* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *The Poppy* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *Travelling Actors* (1940), Original Music Composer
- *Navy Bomb Squadron* (1940), Original Music Composer
- *The Burning Sky* (1940), Original Music Composer
- *Madam with a Ribbon* (1939), Music

## Gallery

- ![Fumio Hayasaka](https://film.one/media/person/59920/gallery-a8801ce6276e.jpg) Fumio Hayasaka — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Hayasaka_fumio.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![早坂文雄、黒澤明](https://film.one/media/person/59920/gallery-2068fe3c1b26.jpg) 早坂文雄、黒澤明 — Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Kinema-Junpo-1963-April-special-7.jpg/1280px-Kinema-Junpo-1963-April-special-7.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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