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Japanese compositor

Musical artist

Mamoru Samuragochi (佐村河内 守, Samuragōchi Mamoru, born 21 September 1963) is a Japanese composer from Hiroshima Prefecture who falsely stated that he was totally deaf.^[1] He said throughout his career that he was deaf which led to foreign media dubbing him a "digital-age Beethoven".^[2] He was also the name credited for the video games Resident Evil: Director's Cut Dual Shock Ver. (1998) and Onimusha: Warlords (2001).^[3][4] In February 2014, it was revealed that most of the work attributed to him over the previous 18 years had been written by Takashi Niigaki.^[5]

Biography

Samuragochi was born on 21 September 1963^[6] in Hiroshima Prefecture to parents who were both hibakusha (irradiated in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima).^[7] He started playing the piano at the age of four.^[7] He started having migraines while in high school, and said tha