Masaru Satō

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1928-05-29 (71 years old)

Deathday

1999-12-05

Place of Birth

Rumoi, Hokkaido, Japan

Masaru Satō

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 pi...

Production

1958

The Hidden Fortress

as Original Music Composer

1955

I Live in Fear

as Original Music Composer

1957

Throne of Blood

as Original Music Composer

1965

Three Yakuza

as Original Music Composer

1961

Yojimbo

as Original Music Composer

1962

Sanjuro

as Original Music Composer

1960

The Bad Sleep Well

as Original Music Composer

1963

High and Low

as Original Music Composer

1957

The Lower Depths

as Original Music Composer

1969

Goyokin

as Original Music Composer

1979

Hunter in the Dark

as Original Music Composer

1968

Kill!

as Original Music Composer

1969

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

as Original Music Composer

1967

Son of Godzilla

as Original Music Composer

1957

I Am Waiting

as Original Music Composer

1958

Rusty Knife

as Original Music Composer

1987

The Forest of the Little Bear

as Original Music Composer

1974

Demon Spies

as Original Music Composer

1970

Song of the Horse

as Original Music Composer

1995

East Meets West

as Original Music Composer

1991

Heat Wave

as Original Music Composer

1985

Tracked

as Original Music Composer

1976

Tsuma to onna no aida

as Original Music Composer

1982

The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn

as Original Music Composer

1964

The Desperate

as Original Music Composer

1982

Ah! Nomugi toge - Shinryokuhen

as Original Music Composer

1968

My Brother, My Love

as Original Music Composer

1968

Judge and Jeopardy

as Original Music Composer

1977

The Alaska Story

as Original Music Composer

1971

幻の殺意

as Original Music Composer

1955

Half Human

as Original Music Composer

1990

13 Assassins

as Original Music Composer

1970

Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

as Original Music Composer

1978

Blood Type: Blue

as Original Music Composer

1995

Himeyuri no To

as Original Music Composer

1956

Crazed Fruit

as Original Music Composer

1988

The Silk Road

as Original Music Composer

1977

Kyojin-gun monogatari: Susume eikô e

as Original Music Composer

1960

Chikuhō no kodomotachi

as Original Music Composer

1997

A Story of Modern Chivalry

as Original Music Composer

1995

Mitabi no kaikyô

as Original Music Composer

1991

Free and Easy 4

as Original Music Composer

1989

The Demon Comes in Spring

as Original Music Composer

1987

Guys Who Never Learn

as Original Music Composer

1987

Tokyo Bordello

as Original Music Composer

1989

Fancy Dance

as Songs

1966

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

as Original Music Composer

1968

Golden Eyes

as Original Music Composer

1994

In Blazing Love

as Original Music Composer

1975

Solar Eclipse

as Original Music Composer

1970

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

as Original Music Composer

1965

Fort Graveyard

as Original Music Composer

1965

Cold Rice, Osan, Chan

as Original Music Composer

1961

Run, Genta, Run!

as Original Music Composer

1955

Godzilla Raids Again

as Original Music Composer

1956

The Vampire Moth

as Original Music Composer

1959

Desperado Outpost

as Original Music Composer

1965

Red Beard

as Original Music Composer

1968

The Human Bullet

as Original Music Composer

1971

The Battle of Okinawa

as Original Music Composer

1969

Tenchu!

as Original Music Composer

1972

Home from the Sea

as Original Music Composer

1974

The Family

as Original Music Composer

1977

The Yellow Handkerchief

as Original Music Composer

1976

A Portrait of Shunkin

as Original Music Composer

1981

At This Late Date, the Charleston

as Original Music Composer

1982

The Highest Honour

as Original Music Composer

1985

Oar

as Original Music Composer

1991

Rainbow Kids

as Original Music Composer

1992

The Oil-Hell Murder

as Original Music Composer

1978

August without Emperor

as Original Music Composer

1964

Samurai from Nowhere

as Original Music Composer

1964

Oh, Bomb!

as Original Music Composer

1986

Death Shadows

as Original Music Composer

1960

The Last Gunfight

as Original Music Composer

1961

Blueprint of Murder

as Original Music Composer

1960

Westward Desperado

as Original Music Composer

1967

The Age of Assassins

as Original Music Composer

1966

Moment of Terror

as Original Music Composer

1965

Ironfinger

as Original Music Composer

1956

Season of the Sun

as Original Music Composer

1955

Taira Clan Saga

as Original Music Composer

1974

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

as Original Music Composer

1982

Irezumi

as Original Music Composer

1957

The Living Koheiji

as Original Music Composer

1962

Operation Enemy Fort

as Original Music Composer

1958

A Slope in the Sun

as Original Music Composer

2000

After the Rain

as Original Music Composer

1979

The Shogun Assassins

as Original Music Composer

1961

Procurer of Hell

as Original Music Composer

1980

A Distant Cry from Spring

as Original Music Composer

1983

Our Teacher

as Original Music Composer

1963

A House in the Quarter

as Original Music Composer

1969

The Magoichi Saga

as Original Music Composer

1961

Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku

as Original Music Composer

1966

Thirst for Love

as Original Music Composer

1973

Stray Dog

as Original Music Composer

1973

Deeper Than Blue

as Original Music Composer

1967

Organized Violence II

as Original Music Composer

1963

Samurai Pirate

as Original Music Composer

1964

Jakoman and Tetsu

as Original Music Composer

1960

Intimidation

as Original Music Composer

1966

Koto—The Lake of Tears

as Original Music Composer

1960

Man Against Man

as Original Music Composer

1957

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

as Original Music Composer

1957

Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen

as Original Music Composer

1958

Oban kanketsu hen

as Original Music Composer

1957

Ôban

as Original Music Composer

1965

Samurai Assassin

as Original Music Composer

1962

あの空の果てに星はまたたく

as Original Music Composer

1968

Admiral Yamamoto

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

1962

The Ambitious Youth

as Original Music Composer

1977

Sweet Revenge

as Original Music Composer

1964

Raised in a Palace

as Original Music Composer

1978

The Glacier Fox

as Original Music Composer

1963

Tale of Army Brutality

as Original Music Composer

1963

Zoku ôsho

as Original Music Composer

1966

Cash Calls Hell

as Original Music Composer

1966

The Sword of Doom

as Original Music Composer

1967

Organized Violence

as Original Music Composer

1961

Challenge to Live

as Original Music Composer

1973

Long Journey into Love

as Original Music Composer

1987

The Great Department Store Robbery

as Original Music Composer

1981

Willful Murder

as Original Music Composer

1986

Yakuza Ladies

as Original Music Composer

1981

Lowly Ronin

as Original Music Composer

1959

Someday I'll Know

as Original Music Composer

1959

The Praying Man

as Original Music Composer

1963

Legacy of the 500,000

as Original Music Composer

1969

Samurai Banners

as Original Music Composer

1974

Aoba shigereru

as Original Music Composer

1975

Without Complaint

as Original Music Composer

1956

Crossroad

as Original Music Composer

1971

Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

as Original Music Composer

1973

Men and War III: The Final Chapter

as Original Music Composer

1984

1979

Nomugi Pass

as Original Music Composer

1983

Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl

as Original Music Composer

1961

Blood on the Sea

as Original Music Composer

1967

Japan's Longest Day

as Original Music Composer

1983

Adrift at Sea

as Original Music Composer

1984

Fireflies in the North

as Original Music Composer

1977

The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro

as Original Music Composer

1983

The Geisha

as Original Music Composer

1989

Dream Street

as Original Music Composer

1958

The H-Man

as Original Music Composer

1980

Toward the Terra

as Original Music Composer

1990

She-Shogun

as Original Music Composer

1970

Where Spring Comes Late

as Original Music Composer

1969

Vagabond Schemer

as Original Music Composer

1971

The Wolves

as Original Music Composer

1989

Shogun's Shadow

as Original Music Composer

1983

Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass

as Original Music Composer

1965

Sanshiro Sugata

as Original Music Composer

1965

喜劇 各駅停車

as Original Music Composer

1967

Portrait of Chieko

as Original Music Composer

1994

Free and Easy Special

as Original Music Composer

1991

War and Youth

as Original Music Composer

1991

Takeda Shingen

as Original Music Composer

1987

Taikoki

as Original Music Composer

1986

Kāsan no ki

as Original Music Composer

1983

Secret of the Forbidden Valley

as Original Music Composer

1983

Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell

as Original Music Composer

1978

Dynamite Don-Don

as Original Music Composer

1977

Sugata Sanshiro

as Original Music Composer

1976

The Corporation

as Original Music Composer

1975

Kyukei no Koya

as Original Music Composer

1975

Tidal Wave

as Original Music Composer

1974

Machi no Hi

as Original Music Composer

1974

Violent Streets

as Original Music Composer

1973

Submersion of Japan

as Original Music Composer

1973

The Twilight Years

as Original Music Composer

1972

Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy

as Original Music Composer

1972

Sapporo Winter Olympics

as Original Music Composer

1971

Onna no hanamichi

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

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

1968

Young People

as Original Music Composer

1968

Scrap Collectors

as Original Music Composer

1967

Sodachi zakari

as Original Music Composer

1967

Three Faces of Love

as Original Music Composer

1966

Zero Fighter

as Original Music Composer

1966

The Mad Atlantic

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

1964

Juvenile Delinquents

as Original Music Composer

1964

The Sharks

as Original Music Composer

1964

Life of Hishakaku 3

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

1962

Anything For Success

as Original Music Composer

1962

The Great Kurobe

as Original Music Composer

1962

Our Failures

as 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

as Original Music Composer

1962

Facing to the Clouds

as Original Music Composer

1962

The Crimson Sky

as Original Music Composer

1962

Otoko no Uta

as Original Music Composer

1961

Gambler in the Sea

as Original Music Composer

1961

Yabure Kabure

as Original Music Composer

1961

Taiheiyō no katsugiya

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

1959

The Age of Our Own

as Original Music Composer

1959

Gigantis, the Fire Monster

as Original Music Composer

1959

A Man Explodes

as 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

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

1957

Last Days of the Samurai

as Original Music Composer

1957

Muhō Ichidai

as Original Music Composer

1957

Streetlights

as Original Music Composer

1956

Nigetekita hanayome

as Original Music Composer

1956

Cell No. 8

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

1964

間諜

as Original Music Composer

1974

1959

1975

Friendship

as Music

1961

1958

The Man Who Rode the Typhoon

as Original Music Composer

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