In the mood for love (2000)

"In the mood for love" is a 2000 Hong Kong film directed by Wong Kar-wai, and this is his seventh movie. The video below is the trailer of this movie. The background music is “Yumeji’s Theme” which is also originally from the soundtrack of Seijun Suzuki's Yumeji. It has been composed by a Japanese musician Shigeru Umebayashi, who used to the leader of Japan’s new-wave rock band. After the band broke up, he began to score films in 1985, and became best known by his score “Yumeji’s Theme” for this movie. The background music played again and again in different part of this film, to build a poignant atmosphere.

This music is really famous in film that Shigeru Umebayashi use graceful orchestral with dim lighting to give us a cheongsam show of the actress who has worn over 20 set of cheongsam cloth in the film, when the actress walked very slowly every time with slow body wave, the music began and set her figure and elegance temperament off to advantage. Since then, this theme music has become the background music of a lot cheongsam catwalk, it always connect to Cheongsam show or retro fashion show which showed the extent of its classic.

This post is about the relationship between "Yumeji's Theme" and Cheongsam dress. For my next post i will make a supplementary to describe the relationship between film and Cheongsam dress.  Asian traditional costume in the movie - Cheongsam  

The video below is an original sound tape, it's really nice to wear a headphone and listen to this piece of music, because you can hear the bass part with power.