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.
Filmography
all 255
Movies 252
TV Shows 3
After the Rain (2000)
Mitabi no kaikyô (1995)
East Meets West (1995)
Himeyuri no To (1995)
In Blazing Love (1994)
The Oil-Hell Murder (1992)
Oda Nobunaga (1992)
Free and Easy 4 (1991)
War and Youth (1991)
Heat Wave (1991)
Rainbow Kids (1991)
13 Assassins (1990)
She-Shogun (1990)
Dream Street (1989)
Shogun's Shadow (1989)
The Silk Road (1988)
Guys Who Never Learn (1987)
Tokyo Bordello (1987)
Taikoki (1987)
Yakuza Ladies (1986)
Death Shadows (1986)
Desperate Pursuit (1986)
Tracked (1985)
Oar (1985)
君のふるさとに太陽がのぼった (1984)
Adrift at Sea (1983)
The Geisha (1983)
Our Teacher (1983)
Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass (1983)
Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl (1983)
Irezumi (1982)
The Highest Honour (1982)
The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn (1982)
Willful Murder (1981)
Lowly Ronin (1981)
Toward the Terra (1980)
The Last Game (1979)
The Shogun Assassins (1979)
Nomugi Pass (1979)
Hunter in the Dark (1979)
Blood Type: Blue (1978)
Dances of Flame (1978)
Dynamite Don-Don (1978)
The Glacier Fox (1978)
Sweet Revenge (1977)
Sugata Sanshiro (1977)
Botchan (1977)
The Alaska Story (1977)
The Corporation (1976)
Solar Eclipse (1975)
Battle Cry (1975)
Without Complaint (1975)
Aoba shigereru (1974)
Machi no Hi (1974)
Violent Streets (1974)
Demon Spies (1974)
The Family (1974)
Submersion of Japan (1973)
Stray Dog (1973)
Deeper Than Blue (1973)
The Twilight Years (1973)
Home from the Sea (1972)
The Wolves (1971)
Song of the Horse (1971)
幻の殺意 (1971)
Banner of the Young (1970)
City of Beasts (1970)
The Ambitious (1970)
Travels of Lord Mito (1969)
Red Lion (1969)
The Magoichi Saga (1969)
Tenchu! (1969)
Goyokin (1969)
Futari no Koibito (1969)
Vagabond Schemer (1969)
Samurai Banners (1969)
Young People (1968)
Scrap Collectors (1968)
The Day the Sun Rose (1968)
The Human Bullet (1968)
My Brother, My Love (1968)
Admiral Yamamoto (1968)
Kill! (1968)
Judge and Jeopardy (1968)
Golden Eyes (1968)
Son of Godzilla (1967)
Sodachi zakari (1967)
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Portrait of Chieko (1967)
Organized Violence (1967)
River of Forever (1967)
The Age of Assassins (1967)
Three Faces of Love (1967)
The Mad Atlantic (1966)
Zero Fighter (1966)
Moment of Terror (1966)
Thirst for Love (1966)
The Sword of Doom (1966)
Cash Calls Hell (1966)
Ironfinger (1965)
Fort Graveyard (1965)
Sanshiro Sugata (1965)
Three Yakuza (1965)
Red Beard (1965)
The Tattooed Lord (1965)
Samurai Assassin (1965)
Raised in a Palace (1964)
Could I But Live (1964)
Samurai from Nowhere (1964)
Oh, Bomb! (1964)
The Desperate (1964)
Shutsugeki (1964)
Life of Hishakaku 3 (1964)
Jakoman and Tetsu (1964)
Zoku ôsho (1963)
Okashina yatsu (1963)
Samurai Pirate (1963)
Life of Hishakaku 2 (1963)
Warring Clans (1963)
Life of Hishakaku (1963)
High and Low (1963)
Modern Children (1963)
Gekkyū dorobō (1962)
Operation Enemy Fort (1962)
零戦黒雲一家 (1962)
The Ambitious Youth (1962)
Operation Sewer Rats (1962)
あの空の果てに星はまたたく (1962)
Facing to the Clouds (1962)
The Crimson Sky (1962)
Sanjuro (1962)
Run, Genta, Run! (1961)
Procurer of Hell (1961)
Blood on the Sea (1961)
Challenge to Live (1961)
Yojimbo (1961)
Blueprint of Murder (1961)
Westward Desperado (1960)
Sixteen years old (1960)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Man Against Man (1960)
Girls Behind Bars (1960)
The Gambling Samurai (1960)
Intimidation (1960)
The Last Gunfight (1960)
The Age of Our Own (1959)
Desperado Outpost (1959)
Woman from the Sea (1959)
Someday I'll Know (1959)
A Man Explodes (1959)
The Praying Man (1959)
The Stream of Youth (1959)
Crimson Wings (1958)
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1958)
Oban kanketsu hen (1958)
The H-Man (1958)
A Slope in the Sun (1958)
Rusty Knife (1958)
Akutoku (1958)
Song for a Bride (1958)
I Am Waiting (1957)
The Lower Depths (1957)
The Living Koheiji (1957)
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen (1957)
Ôban (1957)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Okinawa no Tami (1956)
Crazed Fruit (1956)
Phoenix (1956)
Season of the Sun (1956)
Scoundrel (1956)
The Vampire Moth (1956)
Crossroad (1956)
Nigetekita hanayome (1956)
Cell No. 8 (1956)
I Live in Fear (1955)
Taira Clan Saga (1955)
Half Human (1955)
Six Assassins (1955)
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GenderMale
Birthday1928-05-29
Deathday1999-12-05 (71 years old)
Birth PlaceRumoi, Hokkaido, Japan
CitizenshipsJapan
Also Known AsСато Масару, Masaru Satoh, Masaru Satou, Masaru Satô
AwardsKikuchi Kan Prize, Japan Academy Film Prize
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