 In the late 1940s, Hayasaka invited his friend Akira Ifukube to write film music with him at Toho Studios.Ifukube's first film score for Toho was for Senkichi Taniguchi's "Snow Trail" (Ginrei no hate) in 1947.Toshirō Mifune, the famous actor who later starred in most of Kurosawa's films, first met Kurosawa at a pre-screening of this movie.