Yuji Ohno

This article is about the musician. For footballer, see Yuji Ono (footballer).

Yuji Ohno 大野雄二
Born	(1941-05-30) May 30, 1941 Atami, Shizuoka, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Education	Keio University
Occupations	Musician composer orchestrator pianist
Years active	1968–present
Musical career
Genres	Jazz fusion, electronic, experimental, new wave, ambient
Instrument(s)	Keyboard, piano
Website	www.vap.co.jp/ohno/

Yuji Ohno (大野 雄二, Ōno Yūji, born 30 May 1941 in Atami, Shizuoka, Japan) is a Japanese jazz musician. Ohno is principally known for his musical scoring of Japanese anime television series, of which Lupin III, specifically the 1977 series Shin Rupan Sansei and the feature film The Castle of Cagliostro. Later anime series scored by Ohno include Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars, the 1979 Toei series Captain Future (known as Capitaine Flam in France) and the 1982 series Space Adventure Cobra. He has composed scores for live-action films, namely Toei's tokusatsu series Seiun Kamen Machineman, his only work on this genre to date.

Ohno is also a member of a jazz trio with Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous and American drummer Lenny White.

Discography

• Sound Adventure Act.1 (1975)
• Space Kid (1978)
• Silent Dialogue (1979, with Masa Matsuda)
• Cosmos (1981)
• Lifetide (1982)

External links

• Yuji Ohno's Official Site (in Japanese)
• Yuji Ohno at Anime News Network's encyclopedia