Masaru Satou

佐藤勝

Wiki (jp) | Wiki (en) Masaru Satou was a Japanese film score composer. While studying at the National Music Academy, Satou 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, Toho assigned Satou to finish the scores for New Tales of the Taira Clan, and Record of a Living Being. His first original score was for Godzilla Raids Again in 1955. He wrote the music to…