title: Yuji Ohno
text: is a Japanese jazz musician. Ohno is known for his musical scoring of Japanese anime television series, particularly Lupin III, and most famously the 1977 series Lupin III Part II and the feature film The Castle of Cagliostro.
  
  Early life
  Born in the founding family of Atami City's Hotel Ohnoya, Ohno began playing piano in elementary school. He formed the group Junior Light Music with clarinetist and future NHK announcer Isamu Akashi, a classmate at Keio Senior High School. It was at this time that he taught himself jazz. While enrolled in the Faculty of Law at Keio University he was a member of the prestigious big band "Keio University Light Music Society". Later in college, on the recommendation of , he joined a quintet with Takeshi Shibuya.
  
  Career
  Ohno made his recording debut in 1966 backing Hideo Shiraki and Yūzō Kayama on their record Hideo Shiraki Meets Yuzo Kayama.
  
  He took a leave of absence from the piano in the early 1970s and devoted himself to composing, working on TV dramas and movie accompaniments. In 1976, Ohno composed the score for the film The Inugami Family. Kōji Ishizaka, who starred in the film, was a classmate of Ohno's at Keio High School and Keio University. The promotional literature for the theatrical release contains an article about Ishizaka's visit to Ohno's recording studio.
  
  Discography
   Sound Adventure Act.1 (1975)
   Yoshiko Sai – Mangekyou (Producer/Composer) (1975)
   The Inugami Family (1976)
   Space Kid (1978)
   Daitsuiseki (1978)
   Silent Dialogue (1979, with Masa Matsuda)
   The Golden Dog: Original Sound Track (1979)
   Captain Future Original Soundtrack [キャプテン・フューチャー – Original Sound Track] (1979)
   Cosmos (1981)
   Lifetide (1982)
   Space Cobra (1983, with Kentaro Haneda)
   Lupin The 3rd: Perfect Collection (1984)
   Lupin III Theme Collection (1991)
   Lupin the Third 「JAZZ」 (1999)
   Lupin the Third 「JAZZ」 the 2nd (2000)
   Lupin the Third 「JAZZ」 the 3rd. Funky & Pop (2001)
   Lupin the Third 「JAZZ」 Another Jazz (2002)
   Lupin the Third 「JAZZ」 Bossa & Fusion (2002)
   Lupin the Third 「JAZZ」 Christmas (2003)
   Lupin the Third 「JAZZ」 Plays the "Standards (2003)
   Lupin the Third 「JAZZ」 Plays the "Standards" & Others (2004)
   Lupin Trois (2004, with Kahimi Karie)
   Lupin the Third 「JAZZ」 Cool for Joy (2005)
   Lupin the Third 「JAZZ」 the 10th, New Flight (2006)
   Lupin the Third 「JAZZ」 What's Going On (2007, with the Lupintic Five)
  
  Filmography
   The Inugami Family (1976)
   Proof of the Man (1977)
   Lupin III Part II (1977-1978) 
   One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book (1978) - Television film
   The Mystery of Mamo (1978)
   The Golden Dog (1979)
   Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (1979) - Television film
   The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
   Fumoon (1980) - Television film
   Andromeda Stories (1982) - Television film
   A Time Slip of 10,000 Years: Prime Rose (1983) - Television film
   Lupin III Part III (1984-1985)
   Mighty Orbots (1984)
   Legend of the Gold of Babylon (1985)
   Bye Bye, Lady Liberty (1989) - Television film
   The Hemingway Papers (1990) - Television film
   Napoleon's Dictionary (1991) - Television film
   From Russia with Love (1992) - Television film
   Voyage to Danger (1993) - Television film
   Dragon of Doom (1994) - Television film
   Farewell to Nostradamus (1995)
   The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure (1995) - Television film
   Lupin III: Dead or Alive (1996) - Main theme only
   The Secret of Twilight Gemini (1996) - Television film
   Island of Assassins (1997) - Television film
   Crisis in Tokyo (1998) - Television film
   The Columbus Files (1999) - Television film
   Missed by a Dollar (2000) - Television film
   Alcatraz Connection (2001) - Television film
   Episode 0: The First Contact (2002) - Television film
   Operation Return the Treasure (2003) - Television filn
   Stolen Lupin ~The Copy Cat is a Midsummer's Butterfly~ (2004) - Television film
   An Angel's Tactics – Fragments of a Dream Are the Scent of Murder (2005) - Television film
   Seven Days Rhapsody (2006) - Television film
   Elusiveness of the Fog (2007) - Television film
   Sweet Lost Night ~Magic Lamp's Nightmare Premonition~ (2008) - Television film
   Lupin III vs. Detective Conan (2009) - Television film, with Katsuo Ōno
   The Last Job (2010) - Television film
   Blood Seal - Eternal Mermaid (2011) - Television film
   Record of Observations of the East - Another Page (2012) - Television film
   Princess of the Breeze - Hidden City in the Sky (2013) - Television film
   Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie (2013) - Television film, with Katsuo Ōno
   Lupin III Part IV (2015-2016) - Japan only
   Italian Game (2016) - Television film
   Lupin III Part V (2018)
   Goodbye Partner (2019) - Television film
   Lupin III: The First (2019)
   Prison of the Past (2019) - Television film
   Lupin III Part VI (2021)
  
  References
  
  External links
    
   Yuji Ohno Official YouTube Channel
   Yuji Ohno anime at Media Arts Database 
   
   
   Ordinary Europe LaserDisc
  
  1941 births
  Anime composers
  Japanese film score composers
  Japanese jazz composers
  Japanese jazz musicians
  Japanese male film score composers
  Keio University alumni
  Living people
  Lupin the Third
  Male jazz composers
  Musicians from Shizuoka Prefecture
  Video game composers