Takeo Ohno
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| Gender: | Male |
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| Date of birth: | June 24, 1944 |
| Place of birth: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Location: | Japan |
Takeo Ohno (大野 武雄 Ōno Takeo), born June 24, 1944, is a Japanese screenplay writer from Tokyo, Japan. He is best known for his contributions to many 1970s and 1980s police dramas.
Ohno studied under the renowned screenwriter Yoshio Shirasaka in his early life. Even when he was still attending university, he had already debuted as a screenwriter in the TV drama Princess Comet (コメットさん). After graduating from university, he had been a bank employee and had worked at a performing arts company for a short amount of time. He only became a screenwriter again after he discovered a criminal drama from the Kansai region, named Bucho Keiji (部長刑事), and resumed to work as a screenwriter.
In terms of his contribution to the Detective Conan anime, writing one-part cases with tight plots is his forte. He loves to mingle legend stories, traditional culture, animals and plants with the case. Which can be classified as Everyday Mystery (日常の謎) genre. It is also worth remarking that, in reality, Ohno is a lone storyteller (落語家), and has the title of "松風亭鈍八", in addition to The Meguro Sanma Case written by him also has the element of traditional Rakugo.
Screenplays written
Number of screenplays written: 19 (20 episodes)
- The Crane's Return of a Favor Murder Case (Episode 87)
- Snow Woman's Legend Murder Case (Episode 94)
- The Shaking Restaurant (Episode 260)
- Riddle Granny Disappearance Case (Episode 273)
- Place Exposed to the Sun (Episode 315)
- The Kidnapper's Disappearing Getaway Car (Episodes 321-322)
- The Target is Kogoro Mouri (Episode 384)
- Hot, Bitter, Sweet Soup (Episode 397)
- The Photo Mail from the Clown (Episode 424)
- Conan: A Strange Child (Episode 433)
- The Final "Ahh" (Episode 441)
- The Meguro Sanma Case (Episode 448)
- The Uncontrollable Rental Car! (Episode 471)
- Yellow Alibi (Episode 480)
- Beckoning Cat from Right to Left (Episode 486)
- The Partner is Santa-san (Episode 566)
- The Night the Zombie Died (Episode 582)
- The Footprintless Beach (Episode 677)
- After That Hundred Million Yen (Episode 800)
Other notable works
Anime
- Cat's Eye: Screenplay
Drama
- Ashita no Keiji: Screenplay
- Seibu Keisatsu: Screenplay
- Seibu Keisatsu PART-II: Screenplay
- Seibu Keisatsu PART-III: Screenplay
- Shin Yoake no Keiji: Screenplay
- Tadaima Zekkōchō!: Screenplay
References
- 大野武雄 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
- Anime News Network
