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Shigeru Umebayashi
Japanese composer (born 1951) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shigeru Umebayashi (梅林茂, Umebayashi Shigeru, [ɯmebajaɕi ɕiɡeɾɯ]) (born February 19, 1951) is a Japanese composer.[1]
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Birth name | Shigeru Umebayashi |
Born | (1951-02-19) February 19, 1951 (age 73) Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan |
Genres | Rock, film scores |
Occupation(s) | Composer, musician |
Years active | 1984–present |
Website | shigeru-umebayashi |
Once the leader and bass player of Japan's new wave rock band EX, composer Shigeru Umebayashi began scoring films in 1985 when the band broke up.[2] He has more than 30 Japanese and Chinese film scores to his credit[3] and is perhaps best known in the West for "Yumeji's Theme" (originally from Seijun Suzuki's Yumeji), included in director Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000). Umebayashi scored most of Wong Kar-wai's follow-up film, 2046 (2004), and House of Flying Daggers. He is also the composer for the music of the first Serbian spectacle, Charleston & Vendetta. Umebayashi received the special "Tomislav Pinter Award" at Avvantura Film Festival Zadar (Croatia) in 2013 during his stay as member of the official Jury.