Ichiro Saito

Ichiro Saito in 1955

Ichiro Saito (Born: Ichiro Saito, 1909 August 23 Died: 1979 November 16) Sometimes called "Ichirō Saitō" Was a Japanese Music Composer that was famous for composing music for Drama and romance films.

## Life

Born in Chiba Prefecture on August 23, 1909 (Meiji 42)  .

After studying violin at Kunitachi College of Music, he played in a film music orchestra as a violinist and learned composition from Yujiro Ikeuchi and Yuzuru Ikeuchi . In 1952 ( Showa 27), won the Music Award for "The Life of Oharu ", " Mother ", "Lightning Bolt", and "Secret" at the 7th Mainichi Film Awards. In 1954 (Showa 29), he won the Music Award for " Golden Demon " at the 1st Southeast Asian Film Festival (now Asia Pacific Film Festival ) .

He died on November 16, 1979 (Showa 54) . He died at the age of 70.

## Films

* The five-story pagoda (1944, Heinosuke Gosho Director)
* Todoroki-sensei (1947, directed by Koji Shima )
* Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947, directed by Yasujiro Ozu )
* The flowing stars are alive (1949, directed by Eiichi Koishi )
* Fall Poems (1950, directed by Bin Kato )
* The Munekata Sisters (1950, directed by Yasujiro Ozu)
* Mine (1950, directed by Keigo Kimura )
* The Life of Oharu ( Director Kenji Mizoguchi , 1952 )
* Mother ( Director Mikio Naruse , 1952 )
* The Man Who Came to the Port ( Director Inoshiro Honda , 1952 )
* Husband and wife (1953, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* Wife (1953, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* Older Brother, Younger (1953, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* Shishun no Izumi (1953, directed by Nobuo Nakagawa )
* Sound of the Mountain (1954, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* Late Chrysanthemum (1954, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* Floating Clouds (1955, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* A Girl Isn't It (1955, directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa )
* Oen-san (Director Inoshiro Honda, 1955)
* Kuchizuke ( Director Masanori Kakei, Hideo Suzuki , Mikio Naruse , 1955 )
* The Romance of Yushima Yushima's Shiraume (1955, directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa)
* Sudden Rain (1956, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* A Wife's Heart (1956, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* Baby Carriage (1956, directed by Tomotaka Tasaka )
* Flowing (1956, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* City of Beauty (1957, directed by Shue Matsubayashi )
* Untamed (1957, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958, directed by Kunio Watanabe )
* Anzukko (1958, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* Summer Clouds (1958, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* An Echo Calls You (1959, directed by Inoshiro Honda)
* Kagero ezu (1959, directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa)
* Samurai Vendetta (1959, directed by Kazuo Mori )
* Great Journey (1960, directed by Hideo Sekigawa )
* Night flow (1960, directed by Mikio Naruse and Yuzo Kawashima )
* The Wayside Pebble (1960, directed by Kaneto Shindo )
* The Approach of Autumn (1960, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* As a Poignant Story (1961, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* Black Painting Collection Episode 2 Kanryu (1961, directed by Hideo Suzuki)
* A Woman's Place (1962, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* Daughters of the Saotome family (1962, directed by Seiji Hisamatsu )
* The Tale of Zatoichi (1962, directed by Kazuo Mori)
* Shinsengumi Chronicles (1963, directed by Kenji Misumi )
* Female family (1963, directed by Kenji Misumi)
* Shinsengumi Ketsufuroku ( Director Shigehiro Ozawa , 1963 )
* A Woman's Life (1963, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* Disturbed (1964, directed by Mikio Naruse)
* Zatoichi Senryo (1964, directed by Kazuo Ikehiro )
* Kutsukake Tokijiro One Yuuki (1966, directed by Tai Kato )
* Crossing the Zatoichi Sea (Director Kazuo Ikehiro, 1966)
* A Woman and the Beancurrant Juice (1968, Director Heinosuke Gosho)
* The largest gambling ground after the war (1969, directed by Kosaku Yamashita )
* Nihon Kyokakuden Rising Dragon (1970, directed by Kosaku Yamashita )