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.
Popularity:2.188
Known For:Sound
Birthday:1928-05-29
Place of Birth:Rumoi, Hokkaido, Japan
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Also Known As:Сато Масару, Masaru Satoh, Masaru Satou, Masaru Satô
Masaru Satō Movies
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Admiral Borneo: Betting at the Equator (1969)
Admiral Borneo: Betting at the Equator
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IMDb: 1
1969
Release : 1969.06.28
Popularity : 0.619
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Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki” (1993)
Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”
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IMDb: 5.7
1993
Release : 1993.08.21
Popularity : 1.245
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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza (1968)
Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
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IMDb: 6
1968
Release : 1968.10.25
Popularity : 0.431
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (1970)
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
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IMDb: 6.8
1970
Release : 1970.04.18
Popularity : 1.744
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Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy (1974)
Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
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IMDb: 6.55
1974
Release : 1974.08.03
Popularity : 1.51
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1958)
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
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IMDb: 3.2
1958
Release : 1958.12.01
Popularity : 2.425
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow (1971)
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
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IMDb: 5.8
1971
Release : 1971.06.12
Popularity : 3.151
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Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl (1983)
Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl
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IMDb: 1
1983
Release : 1983.04.08
Popularity : 0.473
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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro (1977)
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
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IMDb: 7.3
1977
Release : 1977.09.17
Popularity : 0.998
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Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass (1983)
Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass
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IMDb: 1
1983
Release : 1983.08.05
Popularity : 0.343
Masaru Satō TV Shows
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(1970)
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IMDb: 1
1970
The Story is about three daughters of a "Hatamoto" during the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration.
Release : 1970.01.01
Popularity : 38.545
Eps10
(1970)
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IMDb: 8
1970
Zankuro Matsudaira (Ken Watanabe) is a low-grade vassal of the Tokugawa Shogun, forced to moonlight as a bodyguard and executioner to make ends meet....
Release : 1970.01.01
Popularity : 10.62
Eps1
(1970)
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IMDb: 1
1970
Through the lives of people aging in a seaside retirement home, the drama depicts the aging process that comes to everyone.
Release : 1970.01.01
Popularity : 2.24