years_active birth_place name background birth_date genre image article_title birth_name occupation
1984 -- present kitakyushu , fukuoka , japan shigeru umebayashi non_performing_personnel 19 february 1951 rock , film scores umebayashi.jpg shigeru umebayashi
 shigeru umebayashi composer , musician
shigeru umebayashi

once the leader of japan 's 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 `` yumeji 's theme '' -lrb- originally from seijun suzuki 's `` yumeji '' -rrb- , included in director wong kar-wai 's `` in the mood for love '' -lrb- 2000 -rrb- .
umebayashi scored most of wong kar-wai 's follow-up film , `` 2046 '' -lrb- 2004 -rrb- , 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 -lrb- croatia -rrb- in 2013 during his stay as member of the official jury .
