Shigeru Umebayashi (Composer)
Shigeru Umebayashi's career as a professional musician began when he led the legendary new-wave rock band EX to stardom in Japan. In the early 1980s, EX was selected to be the supporting band for Eric Clapton's Japan Tour.
When EX split up in 1985, Umebayashi began writing film scores. He won immediate recognition in the same year for "Sorekara" and "Tomoyo Shizukani Nemure" which were awarded with several music prizes including the Music Award at the Mainichi Film Contest, the Japanese Academic Music Award as well as Music Awards at the Yokohama Film Festival and the Osaka Film Festival.
Since then, Mr. Umebayashi has scored more than 30 films, which include Morita Yoshimitu's "And Then," Wong Kar Wai's multiple award winning "In the Mood for Love" and Carol LAI Miu Suet's critically acclaimed "Floating Landscape" (2003). Mr. Umebayashi was awarded Best Original Theme Song for Jacob Cheung Chi Leung's "Midnight Fly" at the 2001 Golden Horse Awards.
- Filmography
- Onmyoji II (2003)
- Floating Landscape (2003)
- Zhou Yu's Train (2002)
- Onmyoji (2001)
- Hikari no Ame (2001)
- Midnight Fly (2001)
- In the Mood for Love (2000)
- Shojo (2000)
- 2000 AD (2000)
- Belle Epoque (1998)
- Sleepless Town (1998)
- G4 Option Zero (1997)
- Watashitachi ga suki datta koto (1997)
- Isana no Umi (1997)
- Ichigo Domei (1997)
- Izakaya Yurei 2 (1996)
- Shin Gokudo Kisha (1996)
- The Christ of Nanjing (1995)
- Hashirana Akan Yoake Made (1994)
- Kitanai Yatsu (1994)
- Boxer Joe (1995)
- Zero Woman (1995)
- Natural Woman (1994)
- Izakaya Yurei (1994)
- Tokapeb (1993)
- Nemuranai Machi Shinjuku Zame (1993)
- Byoin he Iko 2 Yamai ha Kikara (1992)
- Arihureta Ai ni Kansuru Chosa (1992)
- Goaisatsu (1991)
- Ote (1991)
- Yumeji (1991)
- Tekken (1990)
- Hong Kong Paradise (1990)
- Getting Blue in Color (1988)
- Kyohu no Yacchan (1987)
- Shinshi Domei (1986)
- Sorobanzuku (1986)
- Sorekara (1985)
- Tomoyo Shizukani Nemure (1985)
- Itsuka Darekaga Korosareru (1983)
