Career
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 cr 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.