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Yuji Ohno 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' are his most well known works. Later anime series scored by Ohno include 'Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars' and the 1979 Toei series 'Captain Future'. He has composed scored for live-action films namely the Toei's Japanese 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.

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Yuji Ohno - Cosmos (1981)

01. Prologue
02. Sunset
03. Living Satellite X of Jupiter
04. Sailing
05. Crystal Lullaby I
06. Take it to the Sky
07. Over the Galaxy
08. Saturn - Pierrot in the Heaven
09. Andromeda Smile
10. Landing on the Surface of Venus
11. Crystal Lullaby II
12. Epilogue - Sunrise

Credits
Yuji Ohno (keyboards)
Masami Nakagawa (flute)
Keiko Yamakawa (harp)
Jake H. Concepcion, Takeru Muraoka (saxophone)
Kobayashi Group (strings)
Isao Kaneyama (timpani)
Harumi Mita, Sumio Okada, Yasuo Hirauchi (trombone)
Shin Kasuhara, Toshio Araki, Yoshikazu Kishi (trumpet)
Hiroharu Yamanouchi, Michiru Maki (voice)
Tadaomi Anai (percussion)
Hideo Yamaki, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Yasushi Ichihara (drums)