Education
Tokyo University of the Arts.
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Tokyo University of the Arts.
Saegusa is best known for his opera version Chushingura of the well-known kabuki epic of the Forty-seven Ronin/Chūshingura 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, Junior. is a sequel to Giacomo Puccini"s Madama.
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 Astro Boy (1980), Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char"s Counterattack, Catnapped!.