Shigeru Umebayashi

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Born February 19, 1951· Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

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Emerging from Japan's new-wave scene, he first led and played bass for the band EX before turning to film composition in the mid-1980s after the group dissolved. Since then, he has crafted scores for more than thirty Japanese and Chinese productions, gaining particular recognition in the West for the haunting “Yumeji’s Theme,” originally written for Seijun Suzuki’s Yumeji and later featured in Won… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources