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Student of Fumio
Hayasaka's, Masaru Sato really started his
career as a composer in 1955, when he landed the
coveted role of composing for the second Godzilla
film, Godzilla
Raids Again (1955). While his score for
the second Godzilla movie is often regarded as
his worst theatrical scoring, the composer still
showed great promise and was teamed up with Ishiro
Honda for his next film, Half
Human (1955). Unfortunately, Sato's teacher,
Hayasaka, died the very same year that Sato began
his career at Toho. Stuck with an unfinished score
for I
Live in Fear (1955), Sato was brought
onto the project to finish the soundtrack for
the film. Sato's work struck a chord with the
director, Akira
Kurosawa, who would use Sato on everyone of
his films up to Red
Beard (1965). Just when his partnership
with Kurosawa was ending, though, director Jun
Fukuda brought Sato in to score his latest
Godzilla film, Ebirah,
Horror of the Deep (1966), choosing Sato
over the favored Akira
Ifukube to work the film. Sato would return
to compose for two additional Godzilla films,
and its his work on the Godzilla series and his
scores for Kurosawa's film that he would be most
remembered for.
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