Masaru Satō
male
Born on May 29, 1928 (97 years old)
Passed Away on December 05, 1999
From Rumoi, Hokkaido, Japan
Known for Sound
Biography
Masaru Satō (佐藤 勝) was a Japanese composer of film scores. The youngest of six brothers, all of them music lovers, Masaru Sato decided early in life that he wanted to be a composer. His models were two other composers born, as he was, on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido: Akira Ifukube and Fumio Hayasaka. After hearing Hayasaka's score for Rashomon (1950), Sato decided Hayasaka was the only one he wanted for his teacher. He absorbed much of Hayasaka's modernist leanings, and grew to know Hayasaka's best friend Akira Kurosawa during this period. The year 1955 was a vast turning point for Sato: after scoring numerous insignificant pictures for various studios in Tokyo, Sato won the assignment for Gojira no Gyakushu (1955). Then his teacher Fumio Hayasaka died tragically young, while finishing the score for Kurosawa's Ikimono no Kiroku (1955). Sato stepped in to complete the score, uncredited. Kurosawa was sufficiently pleased with Sato to use him for all his pictures for the following ten years. Though the two had a falling-out after Akahige (1965), Sato remained one of Japan's most in-demand film composers, returning to the Gojira series several times and remaining a favorite of many other directors such as Kihachi Okamoto and June Fukuda. After scoring Dun-Huang in 1987, Sato had to call a brief halt to his career in order to tend to family interests in real estate in his native Hokkaido; but within a few years, the problems were wrapped up, and Sato was able to go back to film composing full time, at last reaching and surpassing his 300th movie score. Sato is almost unique among Japan's prolific film composers in that he has written extensively for his chosen field, but has never written for the concert stage.
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Our Teacher
as
Original Music Composer
1983
Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl
as
Original Music Composer
1983
Adrift at Sea
as
Original Music Composer
1983
The Geisha
as
Original Music Composer
1983
Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass
as
Original Music Composer
1983
Secret of the Forbidden Valley
as
Original Music Composer
1983
Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell
as
Original Music Composer
1983
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- 1981
- 1980
- 1979
- 1978
- 1977
The Alaska Story
as
Original Music Composer
1977
Kyojin-gun monogatari: Susume eikô e
as
Original Music Composer
1977
The Yellow Handkerchief
as
Original Music Composer
1977
Sweet Revenge
as
Original Music Composer
1977
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
as
Original Music Composer
1977
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Sugata Sanshiro
as
Original Music Composer
1977
- 1976
- 1975
- 1974
Demon Spies
as
Original Music Composer
1974
Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
as
Original Music Composer
1974
The Family
as
Original Music Composer
1974
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
as
Original Music Composer
1974
Aoba shigereru
as
Original Music Composer
1974
Machi no Hi
as
Original Music Composer
1974
Violent Streets
as
Original Music Composer
1974
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
as
Music Arranger
1974
Scalpel
as
Music
1974
- 1973
Stray Dog
as
Original Music Composer
1973
Deeper Than Blue
as
Original Music Composer
1973
Long Journey into Love
as
Original Music Composer
1973
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
as
Original Music Composer
1973
Submersion of Japan
as
Original Music Composer
1973
The Twilight Years
as
Original Music Composer
1973
The King
as
Original Music Composer
1973
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- 1971
- 1970
Song of the Horse
as
Original Music Composer
1970
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
as
Original Music Composer
1970
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
as
Original Music Composer
1970
Where Spring Comes Late
as
Original Music Composer
1970
Banner of the Young
as
Original Music Composer
1970
City of Beasts
as
Original Music Composer
1970
Incident at Blood Pass
as
Original Music Composer
1970
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Goyokin
as
Original Music Composer
1969
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
as
Original Music Composer
1969
Tenchu!
as
Original Music Composer
1969
The Magoichi Saga
as
Original Music Composer
1969
Samurai Banners
as
Original Music Composer
1969
Vagabond Schemer
as
Original Music Composer
1969
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
as
Original Music Composer
1969
Travels of Lord Mito
as
Original Music Composer
1969
Red Lion
as
Original Music Composer
1969
Battle of the Japan Sea
as
Original Music Composer
1969
Admiral Borneo: Betting at the Equator
as
Original Music Composer
1969
Forward, Young People!
as
Original Music Composer
1969
Futari no Koibito
as
Original Music Composer
1969
- 1968
Kill!
as
Original Music Composer
1968
My Brother, My Love
as
Original Music Composer
1968
Judge and Jeopardy
as
Original Music Composer
1968
Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
as
Music
1968
Golden Eyes
as
Original Music Composer
1968
The Human Bullet
as
Original Music Composer
1968
Admiral Yamamoto
as
Original Music Composer
1968
Young People
as
Original Music Composer
1968
Scrap Collectors
as
Original Music Composer
1968
Cry of the Mountain
as
Music
1968
- 1967
Son of Godzilla
as
Original Music Composer
1967
The Age of Assassins
as
Original Music Composer
1967
Organized Violence II
as
Original Music Composer
1967
Organized Violence
as
Original Music Composer
1967
Japan's Longest Day
as
Original Music Composer
1967
Portrait of Chieko
as
Original Music Composer
1967
Sodachi zakari
as
Original Music Composer
1967
Three Faces of Love
as
Original Music Composer
1967
Gomez's Name is Gomez
as
Music
1967
Three Sisters
as
Music
1967
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
as
Original Music Composer
1966
Moment of Terror
as
Original Music Composer
1966
Thirst for Love
as
Original Music Composer
1966
Koto—The Lake of Tears
as
Original Music Composer
1966
Cash Calls Hell
as
Original Music Composer
1966
The Sword of Doom
as
Original Music Composer
1966
Zero Fighter
as
Original Music Composer
1966
The Mad Atlantic
as
Original Music Composer
1966
Big Wind from Tokyo
as
Music
1966
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Three Yakuza
as
Original Music Composer
1965
Fort Graveyard
as
Original Music Composer
1965
Red Beard
as
Original Music Composer
1965
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
as
Original Music Composer
1965
Ironfinger
as
Original Music Composer
1965
Samurai Assassin
as
Original Music Composer
1965
Sanshiro Sugata
as
Original Music Composer
1965
喜劇 各駅停車
as
Original Music Composer
1965
Stairs of Evil
as
Original Music Composer
1965
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
as
Original Music Composer
1965
The Tattooed Lord
as
Original Music Composer
1965
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The Desperate
as
Original Music Composer
1964
Samurai from Nowhere
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Original Music Composer
1964
Oh, Bomb!
as
Original Music Composer
1964
Jakoman and Tetsu
as
Original Music Composer
1964
Raised in a Palace
as
Original Music Composer
1964
Juvenile Delinquents
as
Original Music Composer
1964
The Sharks
as
Original Music Composer
1964
Life of Hishakaku 3
as
Original Music Composer
1964
間諜
as
Original Music Composer
1964
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High and Low
as
Original Music Composer
1963
A House in the Quarter
as
Original Music Composer
1963
Samurai Pirate
as
Original Music Composer
1963
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
as
Original Music Composer
1963
Life of Hishakaku 2
as
Original Music Composer
1963
Life of Hishakaku
as
Original Music Composer
1963
Tale of Army Brutality
as
Original Music Composer
1963
Zoku ôsho
as
Original Music Composer
1963
Legacy of the 500,000
as
Original Music Composer
1963
Okashina yatsu
as
Original Music Composer
1963
Warring Clans
as
Original Music Composer
1963
Modern Children
as
Original Music Composer
1963
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Sanjuro
as
Original Music Composer
1962
Operation Enemy Fort
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Original Music Composer
1962
あの空の果てに星はまたたく
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Original Music Composer
1962
The Ambitious Youth
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Original Music Composer
1962
Anything For Success
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Original Music Composer
1962
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The Great Kurobe
as
Original Music Composer
1962
Our Failures
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Original Music Composer
1962
零戦黒雲一家
as
Original Music Composer
1962
Operation Sewer Rats
as
Original Music Composer
1962
Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami
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Original Music Composer
1962
Facing to the Clouds
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Original Music Composer
1962
The Crimson Sky
as
Original Music Composer
1962
Otoko no Uta
as
Original Music Composer
1962
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Yojimbo
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Original Music Composer
1961
Run, Genta, Run!
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Original Music Composer
1961
Blueprint of Murder
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Original Music Composer
1961
Procurer of Hell
as
Original Music Composer
1961
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
as
Original Music Composer
1961
Challenge to Live
as
Original Music Composer
1961
Blood on the Sea
as
Original Music Composer
1961
Gambler in the Sea
as
Original Music Composer
1961
Yabure Kabure
as
Original Music Composer
1961
Pacific Porters
as
Original Music Composer
1961
Shokei zen'ya
as
Music
1961
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The Bad Sleep Well
as
Original Music Composer
1960
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
as
Original Music Composer
1960
The Last Gunfight
as
Original Music Composer
1960
Westward Desperado
as
Original Music Composer
1960
Intimidation
as
Original Music Composer
1960
Man Against Man
as
Original Music Composer
1960
Man at the Bullfight
as
Original Music Composer
1960
Sixteen years old
as
Original Music Composer
1960
Girls Behind Bars
as
Original Music Composer
1960
The Gambling Samurai
as
Original Music Composer
1960
Ôana
as
Original Music Composer
1960
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Desperado Outpost
as
Original Music Composer
1959
Someday I'll Know
as
Original Music Composer
1959
The Praying Man
as
Original Music Composer
1959
The Age of Our Own
as
Original Music Composer
1959
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
as
Original Music Composer
1959
A Man Explodes
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Original Music Composer
1959
I Want to Be a Shellfish
as
Original Music Composer
1959
I Will Challenge
as
Original Music Composer
1959
We Live Today
as
Original Music Composer
1959
Kamen no Onna
as
Original Music Composer
1959
The Stream of Youth
as
Original Music Composer
1959
Otome no inori
as
Music
1959
A Love that Wagers the World
as
Music
1959
Woman from the Sea
as
Original Music Composer
1959
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The Hidden Fortress
as
Original Music Composer
1958
Rusty Knife
as
Original Music Composer
1958
A Slope in the Sun
as
Original Music Composer
1958
Oban kanketsu hen
as
Original Music Composer
1958
The H-Man
as
Original Music Composer
1958
Crimson Wings
as
Original Music Composer
1958
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
as
Original Music Composer
1958
Akutoku
as
Original Music Composer
1958
Song for a Bride
as
Original Music Composer
1958
The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
as
Original Music Composer
1958
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Throne of Blood
as
Original Music Composer
1957
The Lower Depths
as
Original Music Composer
1957
I Am Waiting
as
Original Music Composer
1957
The Living Koheiji
as
Original Music Composer
1957
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
as
Original Music Composer
1957
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
as
Original Music Composer
1957
Ôban
as
Original Music Composer
1957
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
as
Original Music Composer
1957
Last Days of the Samurai
as
Original Music Composer
1957
Muhō Ichidai
as
Original Music Composer
1957
Streetlights
as
Original Music Composer
1957
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- 1955
I Live in Fear
as
Original Music Composer
1955
Beast Man Snow Man
as
Original Music Composer
1955
Godzilla Raids Again
as
Original Music Composer
1955
Taira Clan Saga
as
Original Music Composer
1955
Tactics of Love
as
Original Music Composer
1955
The Samurai of Edo
as
Original Music Composer
1955
Six Assassins
as
Original Music Composer
1955
Ootone no Taiketsu
as
Original Music Composer
1955
New Tengu Kurama: Samurai in the Pouring Rain
as
Music
1955
