Masaru Satô date of birth:
May 29, 1928
How old was Masaru Satô when died?
71
Where was Masaru Satô born?
Rumoi, Hokkaidō, Japan
When did Masaru Satô die?
December 5, 1999
Where did Masaru Satô die?
Tokyo, Japan
Masaru Satô body shape:
Average
What color are Masaru Satô's eyes?
Black
What color is Masaru Satô's hair?
Black
Is Masaru Satô gay or straight?
Straight
What is Masaru Satô's ethnicity?
Asian
What is Masaru Satô nationality?
Japanese
What is Masaru Satô's occupation?
Composer
Short Biography
Masaru Sato (佐藤 勝, Satō Masaru, May 29, 1928 – December 5, 1999) was a Japanese composer of film scores. He was born in Rumoi, Hokkaidō and raised in Sapporo. While studying at the National Music Academy, Sato came under the influence of Fumio Hayasaka, Akira Kurosawa's regular composer for his earlier films. He became a pupil of Hayasaka's, studying film scoring with him at Toho Studios, and working on the orchestration of Seven Samurai (1954). When the older composer died suddenly in 1955, leaving the scores to Kenji Mizoguchi's New Tales of the Taira Clan, and Kurosawa's Record of a Living Being incomplete, Toho assigned Sato to finish them. His first original score was for Godzilla Raids Again in 1955. He wrote the music to all of Kurosawa's movies for the next decade, including Throne of Blood, The Bad Sleep Well, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, and Red Beard. In addition to Mizoguchi and Kurosawa, Sato worked with Hideo Gosha.