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Behind the anime
Music
Yuuji Oono was a Japanese jazz musician, composer and arranger.
Our catalog credits Yuji Ono, a composer, on 56 titles. Yuuji is from Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Born May 30, 1941.
Production credits include music (25), theme song arrangement (15), and theme song composition (15).
Our catalog lists 56 credits, including Lupin the 3rd: Napoleon's Dictionary, Lupin the 3rd Part V, and Lupin the 3rd: Operation Return the Treasure.
Their hometown is listed as Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
The person behind the work
Yuuji Oono was a Japanese jazz musician, composer and arranger. He was known for his musical scoring of Japanese anime television series, particularly entries in the Lupin III franchise. Most famously the 1977 series Lupin III Part II and the noted Miyazaki feature film titled The Castle of Cagliostro.
Later anime series scored by Oono include Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars, the 1978 Toei series Captain Future and the 1982 series Space Adventure Cobra. He had composed scores for live-action films, namely Toei's tokusatsu series Seiun Kamen Machineman.
Oono was also a member of a jazz trio with Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous and American drummer Lenny White, The Lupintic Five (later The Lupintic Six) and You & The Explosion Band.
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27 titles listed
