Biografie und Filmografie

Masaru Satō

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.

Fotos

Filme (290)

Godzilla: Final Wars

2004 · Music

The Goblin of Mt. Kurama

2001 · Music

Nach dem Regen

2000 · Original Music Composer

A Story of Modern Chivalry

1997 · Original Music Composer

Mitabi no kaikyô

1995 · Original Music Composer

East Meets West

1995 · Original Music Composer

Himeyuri no To

1995 · Original Music Composer

In Blazing Love

1994 · Original Music Composer

Free and Easy Special

1994 · Original Music Composer

Film Director Satsuo Yamamoto

1993 · Music

Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”

1993 · Original Music Composer

The Oil-Hell Murder

1992 · Original Music Composer

Oda Nobunaga

1992 · Original Music Composer

Free and Easy 4

1991 · Original Music Composer

War and Youth

1991 · Original Music Composer

Heat Wave

1991 · Original Music Composer

Rainbow Kids

1991 · Original Music Composer

Takeda Shingen

1991 · Original Music Composer

13 Assassins

1990 · Original Music Composer

She-Shogun

1990 · Original Music Composer

Fancy Dance

1989 · Songs

Dream Street

1989 · Original Music Composer

The Demon Comes in Spring

1989 · Original Music Composer

Shogun's Shadow

1989 · Original Music Composer

The Silk Road

1988 · Original Music Composer

The Great Department Store Robbery

1987 · Original Music Composer

The Forest of the Little Bear

1987 · Original Music Composer

Guys Who Never Learn

1987 · Original Music Composer

Tokyo Bordello

1987 · Original Music Composer

Taikoki

1987 · Original Music Composer

Yakuza Wives

1986 · Original Music Composer

Kāsan no ki

1986 · Original Music Composer

Death Shadows

1986 · Original Music Composer

Tracked

1985 · Original Music Composer

Oar

1985 · Original Music Composer

Fireflies in the North

1984 · Original Music Composer

君のふるさとに太陽がのぼった

1984 · Original Music Composer

Adrift at Sea

1983 · Original Music Composer

Secret of the Forbidden Valley

1983 · Original Music Composer

The Geisha

1983 · Original Music Composer

Our Teacher

1983 · Original Music Composer

Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass

1983 · Original Music Composer

Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl

1983 · Original Music Composer

Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell

1983 · Original Music Composer

Irezumi

1982 · Original Music Composer

The Law of Hell

1982 · Music

The Highest Honour

1982 · Original Music Composer

南十字星

1982 · Original Music Composer

The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn

1982 · Original Music Composer

Ah! Nomugi Pass — Fresh Green Edition

1982 · Original Music Composer

Xiongmao Monogatari TaoTao

1981 · Original Music Composer

At This Late Date, the Charleston

1981 · Original Music Composer

Willful Murder

1981 · Original Music Composer

Lowly Ronin

1981 · Original Music Composer

Toward the Terra

1980 · Original Music Composer

A Distant Cry from Spring

1980 · Original Music Composer

The Last Game

1979 · Music

The Shogun Assassins

1979 · Original Music Composer

Nomugi Pass

1979 · Original Music Composer

Hunter in the Dark

1979 · Original Music Composer

Blood Type: Blue

1978 · Original Music Composer

Dynamite Don-Don

1978 · Original Music Composer

August Without Emperor

1978 · Original Music Composer

The Glacier Fox

1978 · Original Music Composer

Sweet Revenge

1977 · Original Music Composer

Sugata Sanshiro

1977 · Original Music Composer

The Yellow Handkerchief

1977 · Original Music Composer

The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro

1977 · Original Music Composer

Kyojin-gun monogatari: Susume eikô e

1977 · Original Music Composer

The Alaska Story

1977 · Original Music Composer

A Portrait of Shunkin

1976 · Original Music Composer

Stars and Storms

1976 · Music

The Corporation

1976 · Original Music Composer

Between Women and Wives

1976 · Original Music Composer

Friendship

1975 · Original Music Composer

Solar Eclipse

1975 · Original Music Composer

Kyukei no Koya

1975 · Original Music Composer

Waga seishun no toki

1975 · Music

Tidal Wave

1975 · Original Music Composer

Battle Cry

1975 · Music

Without Complaint

1975 · Original Music Composer

Scalpel

1974 · Original Music Composer

Aoba shigereru

1974 · Original Music Composer

Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy

1974 · Original Music Composer

Machi no Hi

1974 · Original Music Composer

Violent Streets

1974 · Original Music Composer

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

1974 · Original Music Composer, Music Arranger

Demon Spies

1974 · Original Music Composer

The Family

1974 · Original Music Composer

Submersion of Japan

1973 · Original Music Composer

Stray Dog

1973 · Original Music Composer

Men and War III: The Final Chapter

1973 · Original Music Composer

Long Journey into Love

1973 · Original Music Composer

The King

1973 · Original Music Composer

Deeper Than Blue

1973 · Original Music Composer

The Twilight Years

1973 · Original Music Composer

The Three Musketeers of Japan: The Tale of Hakata Obi

1973 · Music

Home from the Sea

1972 · Original Music Composer

The Three Musketeers of Japan: Adieu, Tokyo!

1972 · Music

Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy

1972 · Original Music Composer

Sapporo Winter Olympics

1972 · Original Music Composer

Onna no hanamichi

1971 · Original Music Composer

The Wolves

1971 · Original Music Composer

The Battle of Okinawa

1971 · Original Music Composer

Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

1971 · Original Music Composer

Maboroshi no Satsui

1971 · Original Music Composer

Banner of the Young

1970 · Original Music Composer

Where Spring Comes Late

1970 · Original Music Composer

Song of the Horse

1970 · Original Music Composer

Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

1970 · Original Music Composer

City of Beasts

1970 · Original Music Composer

Incident at Blood Pass

1970 · Original Music Composer

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

1970 · Original Music Composer

240 Hours in One Day

1970 · Music