# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ryu-umemoto
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:15:13.643Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ryu-umemoto"
name: "Ryu Umemoto"
slug: "ryu-umemoto"
description: "Ryu Umemoto  was a Japanese video game music composer, born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. He is known for composing soundtracks to various visual novel and shoot 'em up video games since the 1990s, for several companies including FamilySoft, C's Ware, ELF Corporation, D4 Enterprise, and CAVE. He is considered to be one of the greatest FM-synth chiptune composers, and has often been compared to Yuzo Koshiro."
tagline: "Japanese game composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ryu_Umemoto_20160328.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1974-02-18"
deathDate: "2011-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.23
  momentum:             2.254335260115607
  historical:           5.295322666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ryu_umemoto"
    handle:    "ryu_umemoto"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://ryu-umemoto.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryu_Umemoto"
    title: "Ryu Umemoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "ريو وميموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%85%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "ریو اومموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ef08a2ca-5596-4739-a1cc-98ed5e623e0e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%85%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "ریو اومه‌موتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A2%85%E6%9C%AC%E7%AB%9C"
    title: "梅本竜"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7385487"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump