Masaru Sato
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Masaru Sato (佐藤 勝 Satō Masaru), also romanized Masaru Satoh, was a Japanese composer. Considered one of the world's premier film composers in his time, Sato scored over 300 films,[1] including frequent collaborations with directors Akira Kurosawa[2] and Jun Fukuda.[1] He was the Godzilla series' second-ever composer after Akira Ifukube, scoring four of the franchise's films as well as a handful of Toho's other tokusatsu productions. Sato passed away at age 71 on December 5, 1999.
Selected filmography
Composer
- Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
- Half Human (1955)
- The H-Man (1958)
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
- Son of Godzilla (1967)
- Submersion of Japan (1973)
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
- The Blue Stigma (1978)
- Godzilla Final Wars (2004) ["Godzilla and Minilla" from Son of Godzilla, "Mechagodzilla vs. Anguirus" from Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla; uncredited]
Trivia
- An unrelated Sato, Naoki Sato, would later compose the soundtrack to 2023's Godzilla Minus One.
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References
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