Shigeru Umebayashi

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, among 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. His compositions have been heard in Fearless directed by Ronny Yu, and in Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers.

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