Shigeru Umebayashi

is a Japanese composer born February 19 1951 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka. Once the leader of Japan's legendary new-wave rock band EX, composer Shigeru Umebayashi began scoring films in 1985 when the band broke up. He has more than 40 Japanese and Chinese films to his credit and is perhaps best known in the West for his score for director Wong Kar-wai's "In the Mood for Love" (2001). Umebayashi also scored Wong Kar-wai's long-awaited "2046" (2004). He is also the composer for the music of the first Serbian spectacle, "Charleston & Vendetta".

cores

1984

** "Itsuka Darekaga Korosareru"

1985

** "Tomoyo Shizukani Nemure"
** "Sorekara"

1986

** "Sorobanzuku"
** "Shinshi Domei"
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1987
** "Kyohu no Yacchan"

1988

** "Getting Blue in Color"

1990

** "Hong Kong Paradise"
** "Tekken"

1991

** "Yumeji"
** "Ote"
** "Goaisatsu"

1992

** "Arihureta Ai ni Kansuru Chosa"
** "Byoin he Iko 2 Yamai ha Kikara"
** "Nemuranai Machi Shinjuku Zame"

1994

** "Izakaya Yurei"

1995

** "Zero Woman"
** "Boxer Joe"
** "Kitanai Yatsu"
** "Hashirana Akan Yoake Made"
** "The Christ of Nanjing" 1996
** "Shin Gokudo Kisha"
** "Izakaya Yurei 2"

1997

** "Ichigo Domei"
** "Isana no Umi"
** "Watashitachi ga Sukidatta Koto"
** "G4 Option Zero"

1998
** "Fuyajo"
** "Belle Epoch"

2000
** "2000 A.D."
** "Shojo"
** "In the Mood for Love"

2001
** "Midnight Fly"
** "Hikari no Ame"
** "Onmyoji"

2003

** "Onmyoji II"
** "Floating Land Scape"

2004
** "House of Flying Daggers"
** "2046"
** "Hibi"

2006

** "Fearless"
** "Daisy"
** "Curse of the Golden Flower"

2007

** "Hannibal Rising"
** "A Simple Love Story" (in pre-production)
** "My Blueberry Nights"

2008
** "The Real Shaolin"

ee also

*List of soundtrack composers

External links

* [http://www.shigeru-umebayashi.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.cinemascope.gr/special/interviews/shigeru04.shtml Feb 2005 interview]
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