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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. ==Biography== 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 at 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 and broadcast by NHK. The documentary followed him as he met survivors of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan.〔 ==Doubts about musical abilities and deafness statements== In June 2013, a reporter from the magazine ''Aera'' interviewed Samuragochi at his apartment in Yokohama, but noticed a number of inconsistencies in Samuragochi's deafness statements, including his ability to respond to questions before the sign-language interpreter had finished, and standing up to answer a doorbell when it rang. The interview was ultimately not published by the magazine due to doubts about Samuragochi's statements.〔 When Samuragochi's first symphony was performed on tour by a full orchestra, the composer Takeo Noguchi noticed that it was an adaption of little-known works from earlier composers like Gustav Mahler, and doubted Samuragochi's story, which was sourced entirely to his record label. Noguchi's article was turned down by musical publications, as Samuragochi's record label was one of their advertising sponsors, and instead was published in the November 2013 issue of the newsweekly ''Shincho 45'', as .〔 After the ghostwriting was revealed, Noguchi's article was awarded the Editors' Choice Magazine Journalism Award. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mamoru Samuragochi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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