Yuji Ohno

Yuji Ohno (大野 雄二, Ōno Yūji, born 30 May 1941 in Atami, Shizuoka, Japan) also known as MahouP (魔法P MahōP) 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 Lupin III Part II and the feature film The Castle of Cagliostro.^[1] 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)
• The Inugamis (1976)^[2]
• Space Kid (1978)
• Silent Dialogue (1979, with Masa Matsuda)
• Cosmos (1981)
• Lifetide (1982)
• Lupin The 3rd: Perfect Collection (1984)
• Lupin III Theme Collection (1991)
• LUPIN THE THIRD 「JAZZ」 ～the 3rd～ Funky & Pop (1999)
• Lupin the Third: Jazz Bossa & Fusion (2002)
• Lupin the Third Jazz: Another Jazz (2002)
• Lupin the Third Jazz Plays the "Standards" (2003)
• LUPIN TROIS (2004)
• Lupin the Third Jazz: Cool for Joy (2005)

References

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Yuji Ohno anime at Media Arts Database (in Japanese)
• Yuji Ohno at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Yuji Ohno Trio at AllMusic