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 k…
Known For
Yojimbo
Original Music Composer
High and Low
Original Music Composer
Throne of Blood
Original Music Composer
Sanjuro
Original Music Composer
The Hidden Fortress
Original Music Composer
Red Beard
Original Music Composer
The Bad Sleep Well
Original Music Composer
The Sword of Doom
Original Music Composer
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Filmography
Crew (278)
Movies (274)
Godzilla: Final Wars
2004Music
The Goblin of Mt. Kurama
2001Music
After the Rain
2000Original Music Composer
A Story of Modern Chivalry
1997Original Music Composer
Himeyuri no To
1995Original Music Composer
East Meets West
1995Original Music Composer
Mitabi no kaikyô
1995Original Music Composer
In Blazing Love
1994Original Music Composer
Free and Easy Special
1994Original Music Composer
Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”
1993Original Music Composer
The Oil-Hell Murder
1992Original Music Composer
Rainbow Kids
1991Original Music Composer
Heat Wave
1991Original Music Composer
Takeda Shingen
1991Original Music Composer
War and Youth
1991Original Music Composer
Free and Easy 4
1991Original Music Composer
She-Shogun
1990Original Music Composer
13 Assassins
1990Original Music Composer
Shogun's Shadow
1989Original Music Composer
The Demon Comes in Spring
1989Original Music Composer
Fancy Dance
1989Songs
Dream Street
1989Original Music Composer
The Silk Road
1988Original Music Composer
Tokyo Bordello
1987Original Music Composer
Guys Who Never Learn
1987Original Music Composer
The Great Department Store Robbery
1987Original Music Composer
Taikoki
1987Original Music Composer
The Forest of the Little Bear
1987Original Music Composer
Yakuza Ladies
1986Original Music Composer
Kāsan no ki
1986Original Music Composer
Death Shadows
1986Original Music Composer
Tracked
1985Original Music Composer
Oar
1985Original Music Composer
君のふるさとに太陽がのぼった
1984Original Music Composer
Fireflies in the North
1984Original Music Composer
Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl
1983Original Music Composer
Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass
1983Original Music Composer
The Geisha
1983Original Music Composer
Our Teacher
1983Original Music Composer
Adrift at Sea
1983Original Music Composer
Secret of the Forbidden Valley
1983Original Music Composer
Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell
1983Original Music Composer
The Highest Honour
1982Original Music Composer
The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn
1982Original Music Composer
Ah! Nomugi toge - Shinryokuhen
1982Original Music Composer
Irezumi
1982Original Music Composer
南十字星
1982Music
At This Late Date, the Charleston
1981Original Music Composer
Lowly Ronin
1981Original Music Composer
Willful Murder
1981Original Music Composer
Xiongmao Monogatari TaoTao
1981Music
Xiongmao Monogatari TaoTao
1981Original Music Composer
Toward the Terra
1980Original Music Composer
A Distant Cry from Spring
1980Original Music Composer
Nomugi Pass
1979Original Music Composer
The Shogun Assassins
1979Original Music Composer
Hunter in the Dark
1979Original Music Composer
August Without Emperor
1978Original Music Composer
Blood Type: Blue
1978Original Music Composer
Dynamite Don-Don
1978Original Music Composer
The Glacier Fox
1978Original Music Composer
Sugata Sanshiro
1977Original Music Composer
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
1977Original Music Composer
The Alaska Story
1977Original Music Composer
Sweet Revenge
1977Original Music Composer
Kyojin-gun monogatari: Susume eikô e
1977Original Music Composer
The Yellow Handkerchief
1977Original Music Composer
Tsuma to onna no aida
1976Original Music Composer
A Portrait of Shunkin
1976Original Music Composer
The Corporation
1976Original Music Composer
Solar Eclipse
1975Original Music Composer
Kyukei no Koya
1975Original Music Composer
Without Complaint
1975Original Music Composer
Tidal Wave
1975Original Music Composer
Friendship
1975Music
Friendship
1975Original Music Composer
Violent Streets
1974Original Music Composer
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
1974Music Arranger
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
1974Original Music Composer
Machi no Hi
1974Original Music Composer
Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
1974Original Music Composer
Aoba shigereru
1974Original Music Composer
Demon Spies
1974Original Music Composer
The Family
1974Original Music Composer
Scalpel
1974Music
Scalpel
1974Original Music Composer
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
1973Original Music Composer
Deeper Than Blue
1973Original Music Composer
Long Journey into Love
1973Original Music Composer
The King
1973Original Music Composer
Submersion of Japan
1973Original Music Composer
The Twilight Years
1973Original Music Composer
Stray Dog
1973Original Music Composer
Home from the Sea
1972Original Music Composer
Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
1972Original Music Composer
Sapporo Winter Olympics
1972Original Music Composer
The Wolves
1971Original Music Composer
The Battle of Okinawa
1971Original Music Composer
Onna no hanamichi
1971Original Music Composer
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
1971Original Music Composer
Maboroshi no Satsui
1971Original Music Composer
City of Beasts
1970Original Music Composer
Where Spring Comes Late
1970Original Music Composer
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
1970Original Music Composer
Song of the Horse
1970Original Music Composer
Incident at Blood Pass
1970Original Music Composer
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
1970Original Music Composer
Banner of the Young
1970Original Music Composer
Red Lion
1969Original Music Composer
Travels of Lord Mito
1969Original Music Composer
Samurai Banners
1969Original Music Composer
Futari no Koibito
1969Original Music Composer
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
1969Original Music Composer
Admiral Borneo: Betting at the Equator
1969Original Music Composer
Battle of the Japan Sea
1969Original Music Composer
Vagabond Schemer
1969Original Music Composer
Goyokin
1969Original Music Composer
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
1969Original Music Composer
Tenchu!
1969Original Music Composer
The Magoichi Saga
1969Original Music Composer
Forward, Young People!
1969Original Music Composer
Judge and Jeopardy
1968Original Music Composer
Admiral Yamamoto
1968Original Music Composer
My Brother, My Love
1968Original Music Composer
Kill!
1968Original Music Composer
The Human Bullet
1968Original Music Composer
Young People
1968Original Music Composer
Scrap Collectors
1968Original Music Composer
The Day the Sun Rose
1968Original Music Composer
Golden Eyes
1968Original Music Composer
Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
1968Music
Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
1968Original Music Composer
Cry of the Mountain
1968Music
Cry of the Mountain
1968Original Music Composer
Son of Godzilla
1967Original Music Composer
The Age of Assassins
1967Original Music Composer
Organized Violence II
1967Original Music Composer
Sodachi zakari
1967Original Music Composer
Portrait of Chieko
1967Original Music Composer
Organized Violence
1967Original Music Composer
Japan's Longest Day
1967Original Music Composer
Three Faces of Love
1967Original Music Composer
Gomez's Name is Gomez
1967Music
The Sword of Doom
1966Original Music Composer
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
1966Original Music Composer
Koto—The Lake of Tears
1966Original Music Composer
The Mad Atlantic
1966Original Music Composer
Thirst for Love
1966Original Music Composer
Cash Calls Hell
1966Original Music Composer
Zero Fighter
1966Original Music Composer
Moment of Terror
1966Original Music Composer
Big Wind from Tokyo
1966Music
Big Wind from Tokyo
1966Original Music Composer
Red Beard
1965Original Music Composer
Fort Graveyard
1965Original Music Composer
Ironfinger
1965Original Music Composer
喜劇 各駅停車
1965Original Music Composer
Sanshiro Sugata
1965Original Music Composer
Samurai Assassin
1965Original Music Composer
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
1965Original Music Composer
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1965Original Music Composer
The Tattooed Lord
1965Original Music Composer
Three Yakuza
1965Original Music Composer
Stairs of Evil
1965Original Music Composer
間諜
1964Original Music Composer
Oh, Bomb!
1964Original Music Composer
The Desperate
1964Original Music Composer
Life of Hishakaku 3
1964Original Music Composer
Samurai from Nowhere
1964Original Music Composer
Raised in a Palace
1964Original Music Composer
Jakoman and Tetsu
1964Original Music Composer
Juvenile Delinquents
1964Original Music Composer
The Sharks
1964Original Music Composer
High and Low
1963Original Music Composer
Samurai Pirate
1963Original Music Composer
Okashina yatsu
1963Original Music Composer
A House in the Quarter
1963Original Music Composer
Warring Clans
1963Original Music Composer
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
1963Original Music Composer
Tale of Army Brutality
1963Original Music Composer
Legacy of the 500,000
1963Original Music Composer
Life of Hishakaku
1963Original Music Composer
Life of Hishakaku 2
1963Original Music Composer
Modern Children
1963Original Music Composer
Zoku ôsho
1963Original Music Composer
Sanjuro
1962Original Music Composer
Anything For Success
1962Original Music Composer
The Crimson Sky
1962Original Music Composer
Operation Sewer Rats
1962Original Music Composer
The Ambitious Youth
1962Original Music Composer
Operation Enemy Fort
1962Original Music Composer
零戦黒雲一家
1962Original Music Composer
Our Failures
1962Original Music Composer
あの空の果てに星はまたたく
1962Original Music Composer
Otoko no Uta
1962Original Music Composer
Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami
1962Original Music Composer
Facing to the Clouds
1962Original Music Composer
The Great Kurobe
1962Original Music Composer
Blood on the Sea
1961Original Music Composer
Yojimbo
1961Original Music Composer
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
1961Original Music Composer
Challenge to Live
1961Original Music Composer
Gambler in the Sea
1961Original Music Composer
Yabure Kabure
1961Original Music Composer
Procurer of Hell
1961Original Music Composer
Pacific Porters
1961Original Music Composer
Blueprint of Murder
1961Original Music Composer
Run, Genta, Run!
1961Original Music Composer
Shokei zen'ya
1961Music
Shokei zen'ya
1961Original Music Composer
The Bad Sleep Well
1960Original Music Composer
Man Against Man
1960Original Music Composer
The Last Gunfight
1960Original Music Composer
Intimidation
1960Original Music Composer
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
1960Original Music Composer
Sixteen years old
1960Original Music Composer
Westward Desperado
1960Original Music Composer
University Bandits
1960Original Music Composer
Man at the Bullfight
1960Original Music Composer
The Gambling Samurai
1960Original Music Composer
Ôana
1960Original Music Composer
We Live Today
1959Original Music Composer
The Stream of Youth
1959Original Music Composer
Someday I'll Know
1959Original Music Composer
A Man Explodes
1959Original Music Composer
I Will Challenge
1959Original Music Composer
Masked Woman
1959Original Music Composer
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
1959Original Music Composer
Desperado Outpost
1959Original Music Composer
Woman from the Sea
1959Original Music Composer
The Age of Our Own
1959Original Music Composer
The Praying Man
1959Original Music Composer
I Want to Be a Shellfish
1959Original Music Composer
A Love that Wagers the World
1959Music
Otome no inori
1959Music
Otome no inori
1959Original Music Composer
The Hidden Fortress
1958Original Music Composer
The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
1958Original Music Composer
A Slope in the Sun
1958Original Music Composer
Akutoku
1958Original Music Composer
The H-Man
1958Original Music Composer
Oban kanketsu hen
1958Original Music Composer
Crimson Wings
1958Original Music Composer
Rusty Knife
1958Original Music Composer
Song for a Bride
1958Original Music Composer
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1958Original Music Composer
Streetlights
1957Original Music Composer
Throne of Blood
1957Original Music Composer
I Am Waiting
1957Original Music Composer
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
1957Original Music Composer
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
1957Original Music Composer
Last Days of the Samurai
1957Original Music Composer
Ôban
1957Original Music Composer
The Lower Depths
1957Original Music Composer
Muhō Ichidai
1957Original Music Composer
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
1957Original Music Composer
The Living Koheiji
1957Original Music Composer
The Vampire Moth
1956Original Music Composer
Runaway Bride
1956Original Music Composer
Cell No. 8
1956Original Music Composer
Crossroad
1956Original Music Composer
Crazed Fruit
1956Original Music Composer
Season of the Sun
1956Original Music Composer
Eacape of Fear
1956Music
Eacape of Fear
1956Original Music Composer
Tactics of Love
1955Original Music Composer
I Live in Fear
1955Original Music Composer
Ootone no Taiketsu
1955Original Music Composer
Six Assassins
1955Original Music Composer
Taira Clan Saga
1955Original Music Composer
Godzilla Raids Again
1955Original Music Composer
The Samurai of Edo
1955Original Music Composer
Beast Man Snow Man
1955Original Music Composer
New Tengu Kurama: Samurai in the Pouring Rain
1955Music
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