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 268
Movies 265
TV Shows 3

After the Rain (2000)

A Story of Modern Chivalry (1997)

Mitabi no kaikyô (1995)

East Meets West (1995)

Himeyuri no To (1995)

In Blazing Love (1994)

Free and Easy Special (1994)

Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki” (1993)

The Oil-Hell Murder (1992)

Oda Nobunaga (1992)

Free and Easy 4 (1991)

War and Youth (1991)

Heat Wave (1991)

Rainbow Kids (1991)

Takeda Shingen (1991)

13 Assassins (1990)

She-Shogun (1990)

Dream Street (1989)

The Demon Comes in Spring (1989)

Shogun's Shadow (1989)

The Silk Road (1988)

The Great Department Store Robbery (1987)

The Forest of the Little Bear (1987)

Guys Who Never Learn (1987)

Tokyo Bordello (1987)

Taikoki (1987)

Yakuza Ladies (1986)

Kāsan no ki (1986)

Death Shadows (1986)

Desperate Pursuit (1986)

Tracked (1985)

Oar (1985)

Fireflies in the North (1984)

君のふるさとに太陽がのぼった (1984)

Adrift at Sea (1983)

Secret of the Forbidden Valley (1983)

The Geisha (1983)

Our Teacher (1983)

Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass (1983)

Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl (1983)

Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell (1983)

Irezumi (1982)

The Highest Honour (1982)

The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn (1982)

Ah! Nomugi toge - Shinryokuhen (1982)

At This Late Date, the Charleston (1981)

Willful Murder (1981)

Lowly Ronin (1981)

Toward the Terra (1980)

A Distant Cry from Spring (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)

August without Emperor (1978)

The Glacier Fox (1978)

Sweet Revenge (1977)

Sugata Sanshiro (1977)

The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)

The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro (1977)

Botchan (1977)

Kyojin-gun monogatari: Susume eikô e (1977)

The Alaska Story (1977)

A Portrait of Shunkin (1976)

The Corporation (1976)

Tsuma to onna no aida (1976)

Solar Eclipse (1975)

Kyukei no Koya (1975)

Tidal Wave (1975)

Battle Cry (1975)

Without Complaint (1975)

Aoba shigereru (1974)

Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy (1974)

Machi no Hi (1974)

Violent Streets (1974)

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)

Demon Spies (1974)

The Family (1974)

Submersion of Japan (1973)

Stray Dog (1973)

Men and War III: The Final Chapter (1973)

Long Journey into Love (1973)

Deeper Than Blue (1973)

The Twilight Years (1973)

Home from the Sea (1972)

Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy (1972)

Sapporo Winter Olympics (1972)

Onna no hanamichi (1971)

The Wolves (1971)

Song of the Horse (1971)

The Battle of Okinawa (1971)

Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow (1971)

幻の殺意 (1971)

Banner of the Young (1970)

Where Spring Comes Late (1970)

Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny (1970)

City of Beasts (1970)

Incident at Blood Pass (1970)

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (1970)

The Ambitious (1970)

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor (1969)

The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club (1969)

Travels of Lord Mito (1969)

Red Lion (1969)

The Magoichi Saga (1969)

Tenchu! (1969)

Battle of the Japan Sea (1969)

Admiral Borneo: Betting at the Equator (1969)

Forward, Young People! (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)

Organized Violence II (1967)

Portrait of Chieko (1967)

Organized Violence (1967)

River of Forever (1967)

The Age of Assassins (1967)

Three Faces of Love (1967)

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)

Koto—The Lake of Tears (1966)

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)

Stairs of Evil (1965)

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi (1965)

Fort Graveyard (1965)

喜劇 各駅停車 (1965)

Sanshiro Sugata (1965)

Three Yakuza (1965)

Cold Rice, Osan, Chan (1965)

Red Beard (1965)

The Tattooed Lord (1965)

Samurai Assassin (1965)

Juvenile Delinquents (1964)

Raised in a Palace (1964)

Could I But Live (1964)

The Sharks (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)

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (1963)

Okashina yatsu (1963)

A House in the Quarter (1963)

Samurai Pirate (1963)

Tale of Army Brutality (1963)

Life of Hishakaku 2 (1963)

Legacy of the 500,000 (1963)

Warring Clans (1963)

Life of Hishakaku (1963)

High and Low (1963)

Modern Children (1963)

Gekkyū dorobō (1962)

The Great Kurobe (1962)

Operation Enemy Fort (1962)

Our Failures (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)

Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami (1962)

Facing to the Clouds (1962)

The Crimson Sky (1962)

Otoko no Uta (1962)

Sanjuro (1962)

Run, Genta, Run! (1961)

Procurer of Hell (1961)

Blood on the Sea (1961)

Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku (1961)

Gambler in the Sea (1961)

Challenge to Live (1961)

Yojimbo (1961)

Yabure Kabure (1961)

Taiheiyō no katsugiya (1961)

Blueprint of Murder (1961)

Man at the Bullfight (1960)

Chikuhō no kodomotachi (1960)

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)

Gigantis, the Fire Monster (1959)

A Man Explodes (1959)

I Want to Be a Shellfish (1959)

I Will Challenge (1959)

We Live Today (1959)

Kamen no Onna (1959)

The Praying Man (1959)

The Stream of Youth (1959)

The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Crimson Wings (1958)

Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1958)

The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow (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)

Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen (1957)

I Am Waiting (1957)

The Lower Depths (1957)

The Living Koheiji (1957)

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen (1957)

Last Days of the Samurai (1957)

Muhō Ichidai (1957)

Ôban (1957)

Streetlights (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)

Tactics of Love (1955)

The Samurai of Edo (1955)

Taira Clan Saga (1955)

Half Human (1955)

Six Assassins (1955)

Godzilla Raids Again (1955)

Ootone no Taiketsu (1955)
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Known ForSound
GenderMale
Birthday1928-05-29
Deathday1999-12-05 (71 years old)
Birth PlaceRumoi, Japan
CitizenshipsEmpire of Japan, Japan
Also Known AsСато Масару, Masaru Satoh, Masaru Satou, Masaru Satô, Satō Masaru
AwardsKikuchi Kan Prize, Japan Academy Film Prizes
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