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 House of Flying Daggers, and Wong Kar-wai's long-awaited 2046 (2004). He is also the composer for the music of the first Serbian spectacle, Charleston & Vendetta. Scores 1984 · Itsuka Darekaga Korosareru 1985 · Tomoyo Shizukani Nemure · Sorekara 1986 · Sorobanzuku · Shinshi Domei

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