 Weak and sickly from TB, he told Kurosawa that “with this illness threatening my life, I can’t work.” Kurosawa was deeply affected by his friend's death and “fell into a deep depression”.The film "Record of a Living Being" combined his depression and the Japanese atomic scar to create a film that illustrates the “human experience in the atomic age”.Akira Ifukube, influenced by Hayasaka to work with films, scored Toho Studio's "Godzilla", sealing his fame as a composer of music for Japanese horror films.