Mamoru Samuragochi
| Mamoru Samuragochi | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 佐村河内 守 |
| Born |
21 September 1963 Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan |
| Labels | Nippon Columbia |
| Associated acts | Takashi Niigaki |
Mamoru Samuragochi (佐村河内 守 Samuragōchi Mamoru?, born 21 September 1963) is a Japanese composer from Hiroshima Prefecture who falsely said that he was totally deaf. He was the name credited for the video games Resident Evil: Dual Shock Ver. and Onimusha: Warlords. He said throughout his career that he was deaf which led to foreign media dubbing him a "digital-age Beethoven". 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.
Samuragochi was born on 21 September 1963 in Hiroshima Prefecture to parents who were both hibakusha (irradiated in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima). He started playing the piano at the age of four. He started suffering migraines while in high school, and said that, by the time he was 35, he had completely lost his hearing. After graduating from high school, Samuragochi did not attend university or music school, due to his dislike of modern composition methods, and he instead taught himself how to compose.
On 31 March 2013, Samuragochi was the subject of a 50-minute Japanese TV documentary titled Melody of the Soul: The Composer Who Lost His Hearing (魂の旋律 ～音を失った作曲家～ Tamashii no Senritsu: Oto o Ushinatta Sakkyokuka?) and broadcast by NHK. The documentary followed him as he met survivors of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan.
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