Masaru Satō

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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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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1928-05-29
  • event Death Date 1999-12-05
  • school Known for: Sound
  • star Popularity: 2
  • info Birth Place Rumoi, Hokkaido, Japan
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1955-11-22

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1957-01-15

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Three Yakuza

1965-05-22

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1961-04-25

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1962-01-01

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1960-09-19

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1963-03-01

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1957-10-01

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1969-08-01

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1968-12-16

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1969-05-10

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1970-11-28

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1969-11-22

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1962-09-01

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1969-05-01

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1958-02-19

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1979-06-17

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1968-06-22

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1987-09-05

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1995-08-12

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1985-10-26

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1976-01-17

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1968-06-08

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1971-04-15

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1958-09-02

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1990-03-28

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1969-11-01

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1970-08-14

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1978-11-23

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1995-05-27

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1956-07-12

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1988-06-25

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1977-03-19

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1960-11-13

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1995-10-11

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1991-12-23

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1989-04-15

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1987-08-15

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1987-06-13

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1959-01-15

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1962-11-03

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1956-04-11

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1959-10-06

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1992-05-23

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1978-09-23

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1972-06-24

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1960-01-03

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1960-10-30

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1956-05-17

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1955-06-05

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1956-01-15

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1966-04-01

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1973-09-29

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1973-02-10

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1967-06-29

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Violent Streets

1974-04-13

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1960-03-28

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1963-11-01

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1962-08-12

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1963-10-26

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1965-10-23

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1969-04-12

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1964-02-08

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1960-03-23

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1966-11-13

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1960-08-14

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1957-12-17

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1962-05-01

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1958-07-01

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1957-03-05

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1965-01-03

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1962-05-20

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1963-11-16

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Life of Hishakaku

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1962-06-03

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1977-12-17

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Raised in a Palace

1964-09-23

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1970-04-21

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1962-05-13

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The Glacier Fox

1978-07-15

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Tale of Army Brutality

1963-06-14

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Zoku ôsho

1963-12-01

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Cash Calls Hell

1966-01-15

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The Sword of Doom

1966-02-25

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Organized Violence

1967-02-25

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Challenge to Live

1961-06-17

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2004-12-04

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1973-07-07

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Yabure Kabure

1961-02-11

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The Great Department Store Robbery

1987-12-26

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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

1958-12-01

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Willful Murder

1981-11-07

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Yakuza Ladies

1986-11-15

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Taikoki

1987-01-01

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Lowly Ronin

1981-10-30

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Someday I'll Know

1959-09-08

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The Praying Man

1959-02-11

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Legacy of the 500,000

1963-04-18

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Samurai Banners

1969-03-01

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Aoba shigereru

1974-09-21

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Without Complaint

1975-02-01

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1956-03-14

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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

1971-06-12

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Men and War III: The Final Chapter

1973-08-11

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Song for a Bride

1958-02-11

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1984-02-04

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Nomugi Pass

1979-06-30

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Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl

1983-04-08

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Blood on the Sea

1961-08-13

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Japan's Longest Day

1967-08-03

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Adrift at Sea

1983-12-03

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Fireflies in the North

1984-09-01

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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro

1977-09-17

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The Geisha

1983-09-10

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Dream Street

1989-08-05

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The H-Man

1958-06-24

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Toward the Terra

1980-04-26

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She-Shogun

1990-01-20

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Zero Fighter

1966-07-13

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Submersion of Japan

1973-12-29

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Operation Sewer Rats

1962-06-01

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Sugata Sanshiro

1977-10-29

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Where Spring Comes Late

1970-10-24

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Crimson Wings

1958-12-28

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The Corporation

1976-08-14

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The Tattooed Lord

1965-02-25

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Machi no Hi

1974-04-27

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Vagabond Schemer

1969-03-15

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The Wolves

1971-10-30

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City of Beasts

1970-05-23

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Shogun's Shadow

1989-01-14

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Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass

1983-08-05

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Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell

1983-02-18

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1965-05-29

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Onna no hanamichi

1971-11-20

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Kyukei no Koya

1975-06-07

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1957-03-20

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Gambler in the Sea

1961-07-01

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Man at the Bullfight

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The Samurai of Edo

1955-10-23

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Gigantis, the Fire Monster

1959-05-21

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Three Sisters

1967-01-01

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1995-01-09

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1993-05-21