If you are a living, breathing human, you have probably played Resident Evil. You probably know its theme song, which is great. But what you probably did not know is that it was composed by a man named Mamoru Samuragochi, a deaf guy who was the biggest contemporary classical composer in all of Japan. What you also probably did not know is as of about 24 hours ago, it looks like that guy's full of shit.The New York Times is reporting that Samuragochi has admitted to using a ghostwriter for over two decades, which is especially troubling given that Japanese figure skater Daisuke Takahashi was set to use one of his compositions for his routine in the Sochi Olympics. Even crazier, his ghostwriter Takashi Niigaki has come forward alleging that Samuragochi isn't even deaf.
Samuragochi, pictured with hair covering his ears, probably to hide the fact that he can hear thingsYesterday, Samuragochi bit the bullet and announced that he'd been using a ghostwriter since 1996, including the Resident Evil theme song and the work that Takahashi was set to skate to. Niigaki, a little-known lecturer/composer in Japan, claims that he was driven to come forward by the guilt he felt when he learned that Takahashi would be skating to his ghostwritten work. Perhaps contradictorily, Niigaki sold the ghostwriting story to a Japanese tabloid, and claimed in an interview that Samuraguchi had repeatedly begged him not to come forward, or he would kill himself. All in all this has the makings of a pretty fantastic scandal—disgraced public figures, videogames, tabloids, suicide threats, and another dollop of weird layered upon the already extremely weird media narratives surrounding the Sochi Olympics.[Via]Drew Millard played violin from the ages of six to eight. He's on Twitter - @drewmillard
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