Shigeru Umebayashi

Nascimento : 1951-02-19, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

História

Composer.

Filmes

O Mestre do Yin Yang
Original Music Composer
Adaptação do jogo móvel de nível fenomenal "Onmyoji" - versão cinematográfica com o mesmo nome que dará vida ao magnífico mundo de fantasia oriental.
Leap
Original Music Composer
After 12 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team again reached the Olympic final. The ups and downs of the Chinese women's volleyball team for more than three decades have slowly spread away.
Olma Djon
Music
Olma Djon tells the mystical journey of Bolot, a father who, despite his efforts, doesn’t succeed to communicate with his daughter Sholpan who refuses to speak, as a result of communication problems in their family.
Deus da Guerra
Music Director
Durante o século 16, os piratas japoneses proliferam ao longo da costa chinesa. Em 1557, os piratas assumem Cengang em Zhejiang. Após meses de avanços fúteis, o Comandante Yu (Sammo Hung) finalmente os derrota sob a liderança do recém-promovido General Qi (Vincent Zhao). Os piratas, no entanto, conseguem escapar. Em 1561, os piratas se reagrupam e mais uma vez atacam as cidades costeiras da China.
The Wasted Times
Original Music Composer
Shanghai gangsters grapple with lust and loyalty on the eve of war with Japan as they try to navigate an alliance with the enemy's army.
O Tigre e o Dragão: A Espada do Destino
Original Music Composer
Ambientado 20 anos após os acontecimentos de O Tigre e o Dragão, O Tigre e o Dragão: A Espada do Destino traz os mestres Yu Shu-Lien (Michelle Yeoh), Tie-Fang (Harry Shum Jr.), Meng Sizhao (Donnie Yen) e Snow Vase (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) de volta. Juntos, eles terão que unir forças para defender a lendária espada Destino Verde das mãos do temido Hades Dai (Jason Scott Lee).
La novia
Music
Noiva, uma mulher mantém um relacionamento extraconjugal com outro homem, tornando a relação deles em um triângulo amoroso. Os dois amantes carregam sua paixão desafiando todas as regras morais e sociais, inclusive desafiando seus próprios julgamentos. No dia do seu casamento, ela decide fugir com o amante em um cavalo para que possam viver seu amor. Uma decisão que terá consequências devastadoras.
O Despertar da Lenda
Music
Um extraordinário e muito habilidoso lutador de artes marciais (Eddie Peng) retorna a sua cidade natal onde seu pai foi assassinado. Sua intenção é enfrentar o impiedoso chefão do crime e trazer justiça não só para ele, mas para as pessoas do local.
One Step Away
Original Music Composer
Directed by famed Television director Zhao Baogang, is his debut movie set during the Republican era where a soldier and a dancer fall in love. However the consequences of war drive them apart
Like the Wind
Original Music Composer
The last few years in the life of Armida Miserere, female jail director who committed suicide
O Grande Mestre
Original Music Composer
Na China de 1930, o mestre Gong Yutian é derrotado por Ip Man, que no futuro seria mentor de Bruce Lee. Para vingar a honra do pai, a filha de Yutian desafia Ip Man para uma luta.
Black Dawn
Original Music Composer
In 2011, top-secret data on nuclear power is stolen from a university facility. At the same time, leaked information comes in about enriched uranium from the Korean peninsula. Sumimoto of the external affairs fourth division suspects that a conspiracy has been hatched to rock Japan-Korean relations.
Ao Cair da Noite
Original Music Composer
George Lam investiga o assassinato de uma celebridade de Hong Kong. Mas descobrirá que este crime tem relação com outro que aconteceu há mais de 20 anos. A única oportunidade para encontrar o culpado será revivendo o passado.
Trishna
Original Music Composer
When her father is killed in a road accident, Trishna's family expect her to provide for them. The rich son of an entrepreneur starts to restlessly pursue her affections, but are his intentions as pure as they seem?
Days of Grace
Original Music Composer
Mexico City. 2002, 2006, 2010. A cop. A hostage. A wife. Corruption, violence, vengeance. Three destinies, during 30 days, during three Soccer World Cups. Three ways to fight in order to survive.
O Destemido
Original Music Composer
Su Qi-Er, um importante e competente general da dinastia Qing, decide se aposentar para realizar o seu sonho de se dedicar a família e de ter sua própria escola de artes marciais. Porém, os planos de Su são destruídos quando seu irmão adotivo, Yuan, tenta matá-lo e sequestra seu filho. Salvo por sua esposa e uma médica reclusa, Su resolve aperfeiçoar suas técnicas de luta para derrotar Yuan e reunir sua família novamente. Com a ajuda de um mestre considerado o Deus de Wushu e do excêntrico Velho Sábio, Su se torna um grande mestre e embarca em uma jornada que dará inicio a lenda do Rei dos Mendigos.
The Everlasting Flame
Music
A documentary covering the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Murderer
Original Music Composer
A Hong Kong-set mystery centered on a detective who has been framed for a series of gruesome murders.
Tears for Sale
Original Music Composer
Story of two sisters that grew up in a small Serbian village in the beginning of the 1930s. The village is torn up by wars and years long blood oath. There are no men left in the village. Our heroines, Ognjenka and Mala Boginja decide to go to the city, kidnap men and return life to their village. The lights of the metropolis dazzle them and there starts this little amusing and sentimental adventure.
Absurdistan
Original Music Composer
An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young couple's first night of love.
Incendiário
Original Music Composer
Uma jovem mãe adúltera (Michelle Williams) luta para aceitar a morte de seu marido e filho em um atentado terrorista que acabou com a vida de centenas de pessoas durante um clássico de futebol. Consumida pela sua dor e remorso, a moça passa a receber atenção e um pouco de conforto de dois homens, seu amante Jasper (Ewan McGregor) e o companheiro de seu marido morto, Terrence (Matthew Macfadyen), policial encarregado pela investigação. O desdobrar das relações posicionará a jovem em um triângulo amoroso incendiário.
Hannibal, a Origem do Mal
Original Music Composer
Depois de presenciar a violenta morte de seus pais no final da Segunda Guerra, o jovem Hannibal Lecter vai para a casa de seu tio em Paris. Ao chegar lá, ele descobre que seu tio também já faleceu, porém sua viúva tia o recebe em sua casa. Seu interesse pela ciência o ajuda a entrar para a escola de medicina, onde ele vai aprender tudo que precisa para poder se vingar dos responsáveis pela morte de sua família.
A Maldição da Flor Dourada
Original Music Composer
China, século X. Na véspera do Festival Chong Yang, flores douradas enchem o palácio. O imperador (Yun-Fat Chow) regressa inesperadamente com o filho Jai (Jay Chou), com o pretexto de celebrar as festividades com a família, mas as relações tensas com a imperatriz (Li Gong) fazem suspeitar em outros motivos. Durante anos, a imperatriz manteve uma relação ilícita com o enteado, que por sua vez sonha fugir com o seu grande amor, a filha do médico imperial. Quanto ao príncipe Jai, preocupa-se sobretudo com a saúde da mãe e a sua obsessão crisântemos dourados. E, enquanto isso, o Imperador orquestra um plano secreto...
The Dark Sea
Original Music Composer
Investigando a morte de uma jovem mulher, um inspetor de polícia se vê explorando o lado tórrido e misterioso da vida noturna da Roma. Esta investigação acabará se tornando uma obsessão, levando-o a arrastar seu próprio companheiro para um jogo perverso...
Daisy
Original Music Composer
A painter in Amsterdam receives flowers from a mysterious admirer, while a hitman and cop find themselves in conflict.
O Mestre das Armas
Conductor
Após uma terrível tragédia, um lutador de artes marciais isola-se em uma vila remota com o intuito de desenvolver uma nova visão das coisas importantes da vida. Porém, quando ele retorna para a cidade para reconciliar o passado com o presente, acaba tendo que lutar em defesa da honra da China.
O Mestre das Armas
Original Music Composer
Após uma terrível tragédia, um lutador de artes marciais isola-se em uma vila remota com o intuito de desenvolver uma nova visão das coisas importantes da vida. Porém, quando ele retorna para a cidade para reconciliar o passado com o presente, acaba tendo que lutar em defesa da honra da China.
Hibi
Music
Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way to make natural pottery in her own tunnel kiln. Then, her son gets leukemia. And entire family has to fight hard to find a donor who has matching bone marrow.
Making of House of Flying Daggers
Music
Main Characters/Performers: 1. Xiao Mei - first appearing as new star dancer in lavish Peony Pavilion brothel, Mei is believed to be the blind daughter of a rebel group's recently assassinated leader- played by Zhang Ziyi . 2. Jin - police captain in the ruling Tang emperor's service, enlisted by his superior Leo to play the role of double agent by helping Mei escape and getting her to lead him - and government troops - to the rebel stronghold - played by Takeshi Kaneshiro. 3. Leo - introduced as a high ranking policeman in the Tang emperor's service, Leo turns out to a mole planted years earlier by the rebels working to overthrow the corrupt ruling Tang government - played by Andy Lau.
Dream Land
Music
There are places that we don’t want to know anything about, places that we would rather pretend don’t exist at all. One such place is a dumpsite. From the humans’ point of view, it is a ghastly place, a stinking desert of trash. But it’s a desert that is teaming with life.
2046: Os Segredos do Amor
Original Music Composer
Chow Mo-Wan era escritor. Ele pensava ter escrito sobre o futuro, mas na verdade era o passado. No seu livro, um trem misterioso partia ocasionalmente para o ano de 2046. Todos os viajantes tinham a mesma intenção: recuperar suas lembranças perdidas.
O Segredo dos Punhais Voadores
Original Music Composer
No ano de 859 a China passa por terríveis conflitos. A dinastia Tang, antes próspera, está decadente. Corrupto, o governo é incapaz de lutar contra os grupos rebeldes que se insurgem. O mais poderoso e prestigiado deles é o Clã dos Punhais Voadores. Leo (Andy Lau) e Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro), dois soldados do exército oficial, recebem a missão de capturar o misterioso líder dos Punhais Voadores e para tanto elaboram um plano: Jin se disfarça como um combatente solitário, ganha a confiança da bela revolucionária cega Mei (Zhang Ziyi) e, assim, infiltra-se no grupo. Mas a dupla não contava com a paixão que Mei despertaria nos dois.
The Floating Landscape
Original Music Composer
Maan has recently lost her lover, Sam, a painter who died tragically of an incurable disease. Before his death, he was remembering a beautiful landscape from the days when he was still a boy living in Qingdao in China. Maan goes to Qingdao to find this landscape. There, she meets Lit (Liu Ye), a postman who will help her to find that place. A relationship grows between Maan and Lit but she can't forget the love she had for Sam.
Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master II
Original Music Composer
A group of demons in the ancient Japanese capital of Heian is dismembering members of a family of Japanese nobles.
Zhou Yu's Train
Original Music Composer
Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until one day, she meets the hedonistic vet Zhang Qiang and begins a torrid affair, which takes her to another train station, and another level of lust. Driven by the locomotive of love and desire, she hustles through a dark tunnel of no return.
Rain of Light
Original Music Composer
This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed themselves up in a mountainous cabin in the dead of winter. By the time the police finally caught up with them, it was discovered that they had murderously turned upon themselves in a bizarre extension of their radical philosophy. This event virtually marked the end of the Student Revolution.
Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master
Original Music Composer
During a dark time in the Heian period, when evil forces threaten the kingdom, the emperor relies on the Onmyoji to keep the supernatural forces in line. But as political events become highly charged, friction within the order leads to betrayal. Now, Seimei (Mansai Nomura), a talented member of the clan, must face down his master, Doson (Hiroyuki Sanada), in the hopes of restoring peace to the kingdom.
An Adolescent
Original Music Composer
Incredibly indolent cop Tomokawa spends his time making fun of his mentally challenged friend Sukemasa, riding his bike all over the city and sleeping with married women. But his whole world changes when he meets Yoko.
Midnight Fly
Original Music Composer
Michelle is a middle-aged Hong Kong woman who decides to take a trip to Southern France in order to find some inner resolution about her unhappy marriage. While touring the rainy country with a fairly depressing tour group, she befriends Miki, a quirky young Japanese woman who seems to have some problems of her own. After the end of the tour, the two women decide to extend their vacation by travelling to Morocco but things go horribly wrong when Miki is kidnapped by a modern slave-trader…
Disponível Para Amar
Original Music Composer
Kong Kong, 1962. Chau, o editor dum jornal local, muda-se para um novo edifício, juntamente com a sua esposa. Aí conhece Li-Chun, que vive na casa ao lado e que se muda para o prédio no mesmo dia de Chau. É também uma coincidência, o facto de ambos estarem a mudar sem a ajuda dos respectivos esposos que, mais uma coincidência, se encontram fora em trabalho. Com os esposos fora, Chau e Li-Chun passam cada vez mais tempo juntos. Até que um dia ambos se dão conta que estão a ser traídos pelos respectivos cônjuges. E esta descoberta chocante aproxima-os ainda mais...
Conspiração 2000
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Um míssil militar disparado por engano abate um avião de passageiros, matando todos a bordo. Um perito em informática chinês, Gregory Tong, é acusado da tragédia. Enquanto Gregory é morto, seu despreocupado irmão caçula, Peter, envolve-se num jogo mortal. Ao abandonar seu estilo de vida fácil e folgado para limpar o nome de Gregory, acaba descobrindo uma perigosa conspiração internacional. É quando terá que enfrentar o vírus mais mortal que existe: a traição.
Sleepless Town
Original Music Composer
Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except children's organs. His domain is in Kabukicho, a gangland controlled by various Shanghai gangs intent on taking control. His former partner-in-crime, Fu-Chun, is rumored to have returned to Kabukicho, having fled years earlier after killing the number two of gangland boss, Yuan. Yuan wants to get even and attempts to do so by using Kenichi.
Watashitachi ga suki datta koto
Original Music Composer
Isana no umi
Music
Renji grew up in a family that runs a pelagic fishing business and vaguely thinks about becoming a fisherman in the future. He is attracted to Kyoko, a new transfer student to his fisheries school who is knowledgeable about whales, but there is a big difference of opinion between Renji, who thinks whaling is wrong, and Kyoko, who advocates whale protection.
Ichigo domei
Original Music Composer
The story of a love triangle between two high school best friends and their cancer-stricken female classmate.
Option Zero
Original Music Composer
With the retreat of the British government from Hong Kong, the S.B. Team, an elite secret police force, is also on its way out. However, this team of highly trained cops have one final mission together and they are in for the fight of their lives!
Mogura
Writer
Mogura, a shut-in former musician, falls in love with a young cellist after seeing her photo in a magazine.
Mogura
Director
Mogura, a shut-in former musician, falls in love with a young cellist after seeing her photo in a magazine.
The Christ of Nanjing
Music
Ryuichi Okagawa, a Japanese writer who worked as a reporter in China has been sick ever since his return home. While in China, Okagawa had met a devoutly religious girl named Jin-hua. Okagawa was born with a predisposition to agonizing recurrent migraines, but found happiness with Jin-hua and married her. Unfortunately, he already had a wife in Japan, and this revelation crushed Jin-hua. When Okagawa returned home, leaving Jin-hua behind, she was forced to work as a prostitute, catching both a severe case of the flu and a rather less socially acceptable condition. Meanwhile, Okagawa's guilt has torn him apart enough for him to return to China in an attempt to bring Jin-hua home with him to get medical attention, but the girl is already too far gone for his help.
Zero Woman: Final Mission
Music
A famous businessman's links with organized crime are looked into by the Zero Division of the Tokyo Police, with the investigation being headed by a highly trained, extremely violent and very beautiful female officer. When not having shoot-outs with the crime syndicate thugs trying to kill her, she spends most of her time in her apartment, wearing lingerie and taking showers. A sub-plot involves the businessman's S&M-obsessed daughter.
Ghost Pub
Original Music Composer
One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if she dies, he will never remarry. Thinking she is just being dramatic, he promises and tells her to go to sleep. When he wakes the next morning, however, Shizuko is dead. Sotaro keeps his promise, until one day he meets Satoko. The two quickly fall in love, and agree to get married. Their first night together, however, is interrupted by Shizuko, who is angry over her husband's broken promise. Sotaro and Satoko must find some way of appeasing the spirit before she drives them from their home.
N45゜
Music
Omnibus film, set in a fictional town at 45゜N latitude: Wonder Rubbish; Pao-san to no fukushu; Jonetsu no koya; Kaze wa, dotchi ni fuite iru
Yoi ko to asobou
Original Music Composer
Five junior high school students in the city enjoy stealing as a game to pass the time. One day, a mysterious masked man suddenly appears in front of them and attacks them.
Tokarev
Music
A school bus driver's life is irrevocably altered when his young son is kidnapped and murdered.
Korosiya Ami
Music
Ami, a girl who works as a flower arranger, also works as a professional assassin
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
Music
A comedy about a young woman who has terminal cancer.
Investigation of a Typical Love
Original Music Composer
Check
Music
Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a living as a shogi gambler (shinken-shi), and Ryuzo Kayama (Masaya Kato) who aims to become a professional player.
Yumeji
Original Music Composer
A vida ficcionalizada do pintor e poeta Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934). Yumeji está em Kanazawa, esperando a chegada de sua amante Hikono, quando se depara com a bela viúva Tomoyo, que perambula pelas cercanias de um lago procurando o corpo de seu marido Wakiya, supostamente assassinado por um bandido. O pintor fica impressionado com Tomoyo e ajuda a viúva em sua busca. Em seguida, eles se tornam amantes. A trama fica mais complexa quando aparecem Matsu, o suposto bandido assassino, e a modelo Oyo, também amante de Yumeji. Até que o próprio Wakiya reaparece, sem que saibamos tratar-se de um fantasma ou de uma presença real. Último volume da “trilogia Taisho,” o filme intensifica os procedimentos oníricos e alucinatórios dos filmes anteriores, chamando mais a atenção para os elementos simbólicos e as atmosferas do que para a trama.
Goaisatsu
Music
An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.
Tekken
Music
A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer...
Hong Kong Paradise
Music
Set in decadent, chaotic Hong Kong and Tokyo, the film tells the story of a young woman caught up in a mysterious turn of events. A young tour guide, 23-year-old Mamiko who's had her heart set on Paris, finds herself swept off to booming Hong Kong where she is thrown into the midst of a high-profile burglary case.
The Chaser
Music
Love and Action in Osaka
Original Music Composer
Despite his efforts of living a normal life as a banker, the life of Toru, the only son of the Yubari Family, becomes disrupted by trouble brought on by his father. When his father’s battle against his rival group the Miike Family ignites, Toru becomes more involved in the turf war than he wished for.
The Gentlemen’s Alliance
Original Music Composer
Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another.
For Business
Music
Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-'80s bubble economy.
And Then
Original Music Composer
Daisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music and literature; his family is wealthy and can support his interests. When his friend Hiraoka returns with his wife Michiyo, problems arise.
Let Him Rest in Peace
Original Music Composer
A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, softens a hard woman and busts a few heads.
Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
Original Music Composer
While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk in her possession and while being chased by unknown people, Atsuko tries to solve the mystery of her family origins...
Dansen
Original Music Composer
Based on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto.
Dwelling by the West Lake
Original Music Composer
Second chapter of Shanshui Painting series from Gu. A story of mother and son in Hangzhou.