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Behind the anime
Music
Saegusa is best known for his opera version Chuushingura of the well-known kabuki epic of the Forty-seven Ronin/Chuushingura with a libretto by the novelist Shimada Masahiko.
Shigeaki Saegusa is a music director with 21 credits in Aniphoria's catalog. Their birth date is listed as July 8, 1942.
Behind the scenes, the most common credits are music (7), music arrangement (5), and music composition (4).
Our catalog lists 21 credits, including Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Catnapped! The Movie, and Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation II - Lovers.
The person behind the work
Saegusa is best known for his opera version Chuushingura of the well-known kabuki epic of the Forty-seven Ronin/Chuushingura with a libretto by the novelist Shimada Masahiko. Written over a period of 10 years, the opera was most recently performed at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in 2002. His newest opera, Jr. Butterfly is a sequel of Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
He has also written the background music for anime, the foremost of which being Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. Other anime he has written for are Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, Catnapped! The Movie, and Mother: Saigo no Shoujo Eve.
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