 Sato continued to use demonstrate deep western influences through the rest of his career, making his scores (and the films they accompany) "especially accessible to non-Oriental listeners".This was another film of Kurosawa's that indirectly alluded to the atomic bombs, being set in “a period after cataclysmic destruction to a center of Japanese life and political power”.In his memory, as an homage, Tōru Takemitsu wrote his "Requiem for strings" in 1957.