 This movie was another of a series of postwar films that displayed a Japanese fear of the effects of atomic weapons.After finishing Hayasaka's score for "I Live in Fear", Masuro Sato went on to score seven more films by Kurosawa.Keeping with Hayasaka's western-orchestral influence, for Kurosawa's 1957 jidai-geki film, "Throne of Blood (Kumonosu-jo)", Sato composed a score that also borrows from the western composer Verdi.