Umebayashi Shigeru

Shigeru Umebayashi 梅林茂 (Umebayashi Shigeru) is a Japanese composer born February 19, 1951 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka). Once the leader of Japan's legendary 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 his score for director Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2001). Umebayashi also scored Wong Kar-wai's long-awaited 2046 (2004).