Masaru Sato

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Masaru Sato
Sato c. 1996
Background information
Born(1928-05-29)May 29, 1928
Rumoi, Hokkaido, Empire of Japan
DiedDecember 5, 1999(1999-12-05) (aged 71)
GenresFilm score
Occupation(s)Composer
Years active1952–1999

Masaru Sato (

Japan Academy Prize in 1992.[4] In 1999, the Japanese government decorated Sato with the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette
for his contributions to the arts.

Career

He was born in

Yojimbo, Sanjuro, and Red Beard. According to Stephen Prince, Sato stopped working with Kurosawa due to the director's "penchant for meddling" with his music and trying to rewrite it.[5] In addition to Mizoguchi and Kurosawa, Sato worked with Hideo Gosha
.

His work in the realm of popular film continued throughout his career, composing the scores to Ishirō Honda's Half Human (1955) and The H-Man (1958), Senkichi Taniguchi's The Lost World of Sinbad (1963), and four Godzilla films: Godzilla Raids Again (1955), Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966), Son of Godzilla (1967), and Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974). During his 44-year association with Toho Studios, he wrote more than 300 film scores. He also created the music for such Japanese television series as The Water Margin.

Musical style

Sato's style differs considerably from

European classical music, as well as influences from Japanese traditional and Ainu folk music. Sato, however, employed Western popular styles and light jazz
in his film scores. Unlike Ifukube, Sato apparently never felt the need to compose for the concert stage, writing exclusively for film.

Selected works

Film scores

Television

References

  1. ^ Including on albums published by Soundtrack Listeners' Communications and Toho Music
  2. ^ Masaru Sato at The New York Times online
  3. ^ Masaru Sato Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine at MSN
  4. Japan Academy Prize
    . Retrieved 2010-04-09.
  5. Criterion Collection
    . Retrieved 2022-11-20.

External links

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