# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masaru-sato
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:20:25.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masaru-sato"
name: "Masaru Sato"
slug: "masaru-sato"
description: "Masaru Sato  was a Japanese composer of film scores. Following the 1955 death of Fumio Hayasaka, whom Sato studied under, Sato was the composer of Akira Kurosawa's films for the next 10 years. He was nominated for Best Music at the 15th Japan Academy Prize in 1992. 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."
tagline: "Japanese composer (1928–1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Masaru_Sato%2C_1996.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1928-05-29"
deathDate: "1999-12-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.36
  momentum:             0.3487124463519313
  historical:           11.00277733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0766496/"
    handle:    "nm0766496"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ماسارو ساتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماسارو ساتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Sat%C5%8D"
    title: "Masaru Satō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Sato"
    title: "Masaru Sato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "ماسارو ساتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Sat%C5%8D"
    title: "Masaru Satō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Sato"
    title: "Masaru Sato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Sat%C5%8D"
    title: "Masaru Satō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%90%E8%97%A4%E5%8B%9D"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Sat%C5%8D"
    title: "Masaru Satō"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q938538"
    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Masaru Sato"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump