Shigeru Umebayashi

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Shigeru Umebayashi
Background information
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.com

Shigeru Umebayashi (梅林茂, Umebayashi Shigeru, [ɯmebajaɕi ɕiɡeɾɯ]) (born February 19, 1951) is a Japanese composer.^[1]

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.