Masaru Satou

佐藤勝

[Wiki (jp)](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/佐藤勝) | [Wiki (en)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Sato) 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](https://anilist.co/staff/100099/)'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 co...