Shigeru Umebayashi
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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 |
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.
Filmography
1980s
- Itsuka Darekaga Korosareru (1984)
- Tomoyo Shizukani Nemure (1985)
- Sorekara (1985)
- Sorobanzuku (1986)
- Shinshi Domei (1986)
- Kyohu no Yacchan (1987)
- Getting Blue in Color (1988)
1990s
- Hong Kong Paradise (1990)
- Tekken (1990)
- Yumeji (1991)
- Ote (1991)
- Goaisatsu (1991)
- Arihureta Ai ni Kansuru Chosa (1992)
- Byoin he Iko 2 Yamai ha Kikara (1992)
- Nemuranai Machi Shinjuku Zame (1993)
- Izakaya Yurei (1994)
- Zero Woman (1995)
- Kumokiri Nizaemon (1995)
- Boxer Joe (1995)
- Kitanai Yatsu (1995)
- Hashirana Akan Yoake Made (1995)
- The Christ of Nanjing (1995)
- Shin Gokudo Kisha (1996)
- Izakaya Yurei 2 (1996)
- Ichigo Domei (1997)
- Isana no Umi (1997)
- Watashitachi ga Sukidatta Koto (1997)
- G4 Option Zero (1997)
- Fuyajo (1998)
- Belle Epoch (1998)
2000s
2010s
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Discography
1980s
- "Someday Someone will be Killed" Soundtrack (1984)
- Sorekara (1985)
- Bazaar (1986)
- "Sorobanzu" Original Soundtrack (1986)
- Main Title (1986)
- I Can't Lose My Heart Tonight (1986)
- "Yachijin of Terror" Original Soundtrack (1987)
- Do It To Me / Boys / All I Want Is You (1988)
- Ume (1988)
1990s
- Nightingale's Drum (1992)
- "Teacher Summer Vacation Story" Original Soundtrack (1992)
2000s
- "Yin Yang Shi" Original Soundtrack (2001)
- Yemeni's Theme (2001)
- Une Adolescente (2002)
- "Yin Yang Division II" Original Soundtrack (2003)
- "House of Flying Daggers" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2004)
- Fire (2005)
- The World Of Shigeru Umebayashi 1985-2005 (2006)
- "Jet Li's Fearless" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2006)
- "Daisy" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2006)
- "Curse Of The Golden Flower" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2007)
2010s
- For the Record (2010)
- "The Grandmaster" Original Scores By Shigeru Umebayashi And Nathaniel Mechaly (2013)
- "Sword of Destiny" Soundtrack (2016)
- "Rise Of The Legend" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016)
2020s
- Ghost of Tsushima (2020)
See also
References
External links
- Official website
- October 2009 video interview in Greek, from the Ghent Film Festival 2009
- February 2005 interview
- Oticons Film Music Composers Agency - Shigeru Umebayashi Profile
- Shigeru Umebayashi at IMDb
- Discogs discography
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- Fumio Hayasaka (1946-1949)
- Hiroshi Yoshizawa (1950)
- Toshiro Mayuzumi (1950)
- Shinichi Takata (1951)
- Ichirō Saitō (1952)
- Yasushi Akutagawa (1953)
- Chūji Kinoshita (1954)
- Akira Ifukube (1956)
- Toshiro Mayuzumi (1957)
- Rokuzaemon Kineya (1958)
- Matsunosuke Nozawa (1958)
- Hikaru Hayashi (1959)
- Masaru Sato (1960)
- Tōru Takemitsu (1961-1962)
- Toshiro Mayuzumi (1963)
- Tōru Takemitsu (1964)
- Toshiro Mayuzumi (1965)
- Tōru Takemitsu (1966)
- Seiichrō Uno (1967)
- Masaru Sato (1968)
- Tōru Takemitsu (1969)
- Teizo Matsumura (1970)
- Tōru Takemitsu (1971)
- Teizo Matsumura (1972)
- Tōru Takemitsu (1973)
- Yasushi Akutagawa (1974)
- Mitsuaki Kanno (1974)
- Tōru Takemitsu (1975)
- Yuji Ohno (1976)
- Masaru Sato (1977)
- Tōru Takemitsu (1978)
- Masaru Sato (1979)
- Shin'ichirō Ikebe (1980)
- Ryudo Uzaki (1981)
- Hikaru Hayashi (1982)
- Jiang Dingxian (1982)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto (1983)
- Shin'ichirō Ikebe (1984)
- Shigeru Umebayashi (1985)
- Saeko Suzuki (1986)
- Toshiyuki Honda (1987)
- Hiroaki Yoshino (1988)
- Kōji Ueno (1989)
- Shin'ichirō Ikebe (1990)
- Joe Hisaishi (1991-1992)
- Masaru Sato (1993)
- Shigeru Umebayashi (1994)
- Chen Ming Chang (1995)
- Toshio Hosokawa (1996)
- Michiru Ōshima (1997)
- Yōsuke Yamashita (1998)
- Haruyuki Suzuki (1999)
- Kenichirō Isoda (2000)
- Joe Hisaishi (2001)
- Youmi Kimura (2001)
- Takashi Kako (2002)
- Kenichirō Isoda (2003)
- Terumasa Hino (2004)
- Kazuhiko Katō (2005)
- Takashi Kako (2006)
- Rei Harakami (2007)
- Taro Iwashiro (2008)
- Shigeomi Hasumi (2009)
- Jim O'Rourke (2010)
- Hikaru Hayashi (2011)
- Michiru Ōshima (2012)
- Gorō Yasukawa (2013)
- Yoshikazu Suo (2014)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto (2015)
- Kotringo (2016)
- Soi48 (2017)
- Young-G (2017)
- Hi'Spec (2018)
- Radwimps (2019)
- Keiichirō Shibuya (2020)
- Masaki Hayashi (2021)
- Ichiko Aoba (2022)
- Jim O'Rourke (2023)