Masaru Satō
Sound
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…
Filmography
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Lupin the Third: The Secret Page of Marco Polo
2012
Godzilla: Final Wars
2004
The Goblin of Mt. Kurama
2001
After the Rain
2000
A Story of Modern Chivalry
1997
Mitabi no kaikyô
1995
East Meets West
1995
Himeyuri no To
1995
Gokenin Zankuro
1995
In Blazing Love
1994
Free and Easy Special
1994
Film Director Satsuo Yamamoto
1993
Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”
1993
Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
1993
The Oil-Hell Murder
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
Fancy Dance
1989
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
Tracked
1985
Oar
1985
Fireflies in the North
1984
君のふるさとに太陽がのぼった
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
南十字星
1982
The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn
1982
Ah! Nomugi Pass — Fresh Green Edition
1982
Xiongmao Monogatari TaoTao
1981
At This Late Date, the Charleston
1981
Willful Murder
1981
Lowly Ronin
1981
Toward the Terra
1980
A Distant Cry from Spring
1980
The Shogun Assassins
1979
Nomugi Pass
1979
Hunter in the Dark
1979
Blood Type: Blue
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
Kyojin-gun monogatari: Susume eikô e
1977
The Alaska Story
1977
A Portrait of Shunkin
1976
Stars and Storms
1976
The Corporation
1976
Between Women and Wives
1976
Friendship
1975
Solar Eclipse
1975
Kyukei no Koya
1975
Tidal Wave
1975
Without Complaint
1975
Scalpel
1974